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With a Virgin Media tie-up looming in 2010 , US PVR giant TiVo has announced its latest boxes, with the Premiere and Premiere XL set-top boxes bringing a host of new features that take advantage of an internet connection. Virgin Media’s UK customers will be keen to see exactly what the next-gen features offered by TiVo are, with many of the concepts likely to feature in the new V+ boxes that will arrive later in 2010. So the TiVo Premiere – billed as ‘one box to rule them all’ – will be particularly exciting, showing what the US company believes is the future for personal video recorders. Internet meets TV Those features include a major new way of integrating internet content, with the Premiere’s search functionality offering users the ability to find programmes from many sources – including YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video on Demand or Blockbuster On Demand plus ‘options from the web.’ The user interface is obviously key to a product that taps into so many sources, mixing IPTV with cable television in a format that will also allow you to seek out information on actors, series and individual programmes. “Premiere is at its best when you want to browse, discover and explore the almost infinite array of TV options,” says TiVo’s release.

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Popularity tracking website ://URLFAN has ranked Wikipedia the most popular and influential website of the year for the second year running. Measuring websites not on their traffic but on blog mentions, Wikipedia has come out on top with the likes of YouTube, Flickr and Twitter not far behind. The list shows how influential social media and user-generated content is on the internet at the moment, with only Google, IMDB and Apple hitting the top 10 without the need for a social-networking slant. Blogs logged Unsurprisingly, in a list compiled from the blogosphere, a number of independent blogs infiltrate the top 100.

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Collecting things is human nature. The things we collect change over time, but the process never stops. It was cuts and bruises when you were seven, cards when you were a teen and, although no one will admit it, those sweet wrappers with the free tattoos made an appearance somewhere too.

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