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Today sees the start of the BBC's online live streaming of BBC1 and BBC2, though this is something ITV has been doing for a while with its four channels.

I've been watching BBC2 through the iPlayer to see how well it works online, and whether the BBC does it better than ITV...

Woolworths, having become the latest victim of the credit crunch yesterday, seems to have taken its website offline this afternoon.

Visitors to the website will find this message: 'Our site is currently undergoing essential maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please check back later. ' 

Despite being pretty advanced online, The Guardian's mobile site is well behind the times, and the newspaper has now hired a consultant to improve its mobile strategy.

The mobile edition doesn't match up to the web version and, with this in mind, I've been taking a closer look at the Guardian's and some other newspaper's mobile sites...

Amazon's mobile site has been going for a while, and I've been testing out the site to see how easy Amazon makes it to make a purchase by mobile phone.

According to this survey, Amazon is one of the more impressive mobile shopping sites, so what is it doing right? 

Electricshop.com is the online arm of independent electrical retailer Strangewood Group.

The site has been updated recently and I've been taking a look to see how it measures up against the bigger electrical retailers' sites...

Fitness Footwear was launched by Luke Barlow in June 2005 as a way of selling Chung Shi sports shoes, which couldn't be found anywhere else in the UK.

Four years on, the site is doing well, and Luke now has a team of ten, and the business is currently outgrowing its warehouse in Hertfordshire, and has even launched a sister site, onshoes.com.

Having started as a family business, the website has been created on a limited budget:  Luke has spent around £100k on the site since launch. So how does it shape up? 

ITV has been adding more video content to its mobile service recently, as well as promoting it between TV programmes.

With this in mind, I decided to take a look at the site and compare it with the BBC's offering, which was upgraded earlier this year...

The Financial Times began rolling out changes to its website earlier this week, with a new look and very pink homepage being the first major update.  

This is the first stage of an ongoing redesign process and so far it looks like a big improvement. I've taken a closer look at the changes...

GetSatisfaction is a website that provides a possible alternative for both companies and customers to resolve online customer service queries.

Get Satisfaction allows users to post feedback about their experiences with a company or to simply ask a question about products or services, and allows companies to respond directly and publicly.

Fresh Apps, currently in beta, aims to make it easier to search and find useful iPhone apps than is currently possible on iTunes.

It can be tricky to search through the sheer number of apps in the iTunes Store, so has Fresh Apps made it a smoother process?