Re: [backstage] co-branded Miro players

[Sean DALY]

I found the Miro announcement so interesting, I decided to interview
Nicholas Reville about it:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080207173143823

Sean


On Feb 5, 2008 3:20 PM, Sean DALY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, very interesting. The Miro folk have experience cobbling together
> technos across platforms while presenting a user-friendly interface.
>
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> On 2/4/08, Davy Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is great news - thanks for sharing it Ian :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2008 3:42 PM, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sorry to be clear, we are talking and they are coming into the BBC to show
> > off Miro in March. And this is bloggable :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian Forrester
> > >
> > > This e-mail is: [] private; [] ask first; [x] bloggable
> > >
> > >
> > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
> > > BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP
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> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester
> > > Sent: 04 February 2008 15:30
> > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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> > > Subject: RE: [backstage] co-branded Miro players
> > >
> > > I think it would be fair to say we are talking to Miro ;)
> > >
> > > Ian Forrester
> > >
> > > This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable
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> > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage
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> > > -Original Message-
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean DALY
> > > Sent: 01 February 2008 09:21
> > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> > > Subject: [backstage] co-branded Miro players
> > >
> > > Now here's an idea: branded, platform-neutral clients...
> > >
> > > http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=363
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Re: [backstage] Mark Thompson on the iPlayer and platform neutrality

[Andy]

Let's get the straight shall we.

How on earth is a binary platform neutral?
Binaries are specific down to the CPU architecture.

Of course source code would allow us to abstract from the CPU, but
wait the BBC has this code but has it hidden. IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION
TO MAKING IPLAYER PLATFORM NEUTRAL. It does NOT take 6 months to
upload a small .tar.gz file.

Andy

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Re: [backstage] Request Frequency

[Mr I Forrester]

Yep if you can cache or database the calls, then great. If not, well the 
way the BBC infrastructure is set-up, we are supplying a cached copy 
anyway. I expect we will tell you if it gets out of hand.


Cheers

Ian

Richard Lockwood wrote:
Why not database the data the first time it's grabbed in a time period 
of your choice - per hour or per day maybe.  Then it's far fewer requests.
 
On this I run a cron job every morning:

http://www.sdldev.co.uk/weather/map_big.asp
 
Cheers,
 
R.


On Feb 7, 2008 3:45 PM, Rob Dunfey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Hi,

I'm writing an application that displays weather at various
locations throughout the world on a digital globe, similar to
Google Earth.  I use the BBC Weather GeoRSS feeds to grab the
weather info for each location, this involves making a web request
for each of the 278 locations I display on the globe.  I would
like to share this app with people but for each person i share it
with, another 278 requests are made.  Is this considered
acceptable behavior?  If 200 people used this application just
once, that would be in excess of 55,000 hits?  Is this acceptable?

All the best,

Rob




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