Due to some technical glitches, some people may have missed it yesterday but we launched a new feature on the Web site - an embedded MP3 player.

In the near future you will be seeing more of these audio players embedded into Telegraph stories on the Web - playing inteviews with local newsmakers, songs from local bands, or as with yesterday's offering, statements from court hearings.

As with any 'new' technology, we are still working through a few hurdles getting the Flash-based player to appear correctly across different computers and browsers.

The player you see below (for the tech geeks out there) is displayed using the SWFObject method

Please feel free to leave comments below if you can not see the player or if it causes any problems on playback. 

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Well, finally the AP video on the front page and in Encore are now being served as Flash video! And not a moment too soon, the Telegraph will begin publishing our own video content as Flash next week. 

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As I blogged about once or twice - the AP video running on the front page (and at 1400 other newspapers) and is not very friendly for non PC non Internet Explorer using readers. 

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Well - apparently if you are into that sort of thing - it is possible to manipulate our reader polls without logging in - despite what I said yesterday.

 

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I have received a handful of questions about the security of our online polls today and over the weekend - so thought it best to post an answer here in case others have similar concerns:

 

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This email was received in response to the Telegraph's inquiries into an unusual number of votes a recent online reader poll received from a single IP address in Austin, TX:

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From: J. Ryan Earl [mailto:ryan@********com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:46 PM
To: Michael Brindley
Subject: Re: Nashua Telegraph Web poll

It is certainly about time you realized you had no mechanism in place to prevent people from voting multiple times, I was wondering how long it would take you to notice. I made no attempt to hide it, I could have proxied the requests off of countless IP addresses across the world.

 

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A new product launched last night: Google News Archive, formerly known as Google Premium.

You can see the full press release below - but the basics are: the Google News search now includes links to paid archives from selected newspapers around the country.

 

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It does not happen often, but on occasion our web polls, located on the front page of the site, fall victim to foul play.

One of those occasions was overnight Monday.

 

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