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BBC hasannouncedan ambitious crowdsourcing project which seeks to map-out mobile phone coverage across the UK. The British broadcaster is seeking the help of the public to download the freeUK 3G Surveyapp, which measures the signal strength as a user moves around. The one major limitation with this project is that the app is only available for Android handsets at present. However, the purpose of the project is to determine signal strength, so as long as they get a wide enough spread of Android users on board, then this shouldn’t make too much of a difference....

The BBC is back up.The post below is a chronicle of the downtime as it happened. According to the BBC’sAndy Butterworththe cause of the downtime was a network failure. — The latest from the BBC: “Major technical problems affecting BBC News website. Teccy guys on the case-we hope to be back with you soon,” via @Bellesy. Starting at roughly 5 pm Central time, the web properties of the BBC, including iPlayer, have been inaccessible around the world....

This past fall, The Beatles collection wasmade available on iTunesand it wasjust reportedthat they’ve sold 5 million songs and 1 million albums on iTunes so far. In November of last year, the fab-four made an exclusive deal with Apple to offer their digital tracks on iTunes. A deal that is said to end sometime in 2011. The iTunes Beatles collection currently has 13 remastered albums (17 albums total) like the The While Album and Magical Mystery Tour....

We live in the age of data collection and content creation. And we love infographics (dataporn) that combine ideas, stories and insights into our behaviors. Today, we think in a completely new way, or as one startup likes to say, we think “Visual.ly”.Visual.lyis a new platform for exploring, sharing and promoting great visualizations. It’s also a service that connects datavis pros with advertisers and publishers looking for compelling content. The sitelaunchedin July with over 2000 visualizations to explore across a range of categories, from sports and technology to the economy....

There’s certainly no shortage of books on social media, social technologies and online communities that are invaluable reading for brands, marketers etc. But there are some excellent books on social media that actually have nothing to do with social media. What do I mean here? The kind of books that are in completely different industries or written before social media actually existed, that contain principles and thinking that cross over seamlessly into social media....