Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer, loved by millions, disliked by a single US citizen
He does have a point though that the BBC is anti competitive. I personally think the bbc is great for consumers, and that the quality of bbc news is the only thing stopping uk tv news turning into something like american news, but any of that could change, since the bbc isn't controlled by market forces. Brian Butterworth wrote: Or, how to divert attention away from the fact you have lost hundreds of millions of pounds buying into ITV... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/25/digitalmedia.television http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/d301f64cfccffda6cf94d3aff9971539952c363c.html -- *** OPEN COFFEE 10 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/453644/ *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Following Over the Air this weekend...
i really wish there was more of this up north! Ian Forrester wrote: http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/03/opensocial-hackathon-in-london-6th-of.html Good news: some OpenSocial folks are headed to London, so anyone and everyone is welcome to come learn about OpenSocial and get your hands into some code. On Sunday, the 6th of April, we'd like to invite all of you in London (or nearby) to come hack on OpenSocial. In addition to copious wifi, we'll walk through the state of OpenSocial and walk through the API, so you can get off and running building applications. 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- *** OPEN COFFEE 10 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/453644/ *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?
can you get hold of subtitle data from broadcasts? That would be amazing! So many possibilities. Someone I know who's been working on video tagging software was telling me that broadcasters (like the beeb) use a similar system, and sometimes broadcast some of the meta data. Apparently they use it for tagging events in sports matches and use that for pulling together highlights quickly. I'm sure production staff at the bbc are adding all kinds of meta richness to their video content, it would be great to be able to open some of that up. Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, I was hoping to get a brainstorm of ideas for APIs and Feeds you would love to play with in the near future, while focusing on Vision/TV I got most of the obvious stuff like, - A 31 day schedule in XML - TV schedules as a API with past and future ability - Direct links to iplayer programmes - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of upcoming iplayer programmes - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of programmes about to drop off iplayer - Links between programmes and their programme catalogue entry - The Programme Catalogue! :) - A reference page or service for all programmes (/programmes in XML) - XMPP pub/sub messages for upcoming programmes - keywords Anything more? Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- *** OPEN COFFEE 8 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/421269/ *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds
It's been around for quite a while now. It's good in that it's fairly easy to port existing stuff too, it runs a webkit browser with a few extensions for access to local files data storage and extra ui control. You can host a pure js/html app, use frames to load webpages or just standard ajax. It's good for bridging the gap between your web app and the desktop, the most common use for it seems to be making twitter clients! The biggest downside is the memory footprint, its huge! Makes it quite unusable for things like twitter clients. It's also potentially a lot of work to make things function fully offline (like gears) but then it can be a lot of work to get gears working. Idea: an abstraction library for using google gears, local storage via air or flash and any other method that comes along! Ian Forrester wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7254436.stm Adobe Air allows developers to build tools that still have some functionality even when a computer is no longer connected to the net. A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. The BBC is also building prototype applications with AIR. The nice thing about it is that it works on all the different platforms - Mac, PC and eventually Linux, said John O'Donovan, chief architect in the BBC's Future Media and Technology Journalism division. So what do people think? Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- *** OPEN COFFEE 8 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/421269/ *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Does anyone know Stephen Fry?
His agents phone number is on the site, probably a good place to start http://www.stephenfry.com/press_publicity/agent.html Ian Forrester wrote: Ok I'm going to lay it on the line :) He's a geek and we would love to have him on for a future podcast. Hell I don't think he's aware of backstage and he should be. :) So I'm hoping the wealth of the backstage network will put us in touch. Then again, I could just email him or leave a few entries on his blog. Cheers, 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- *** OPEN COFFEE 8 - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/421269/ *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Google Announces the OpenSocial API
that's pretty cool, I heard about this a while ago. Totally understandable that facebook and myspace wouldn't be on there, but it'll make it so much easier to get your app out to more people. Now you only need to write it to work on 3 platforms to reach a massive audience. Ian Forrester wrote: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/google-opensocial-api-launch.html Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network site that implements it with the same calls. --- This is huge because finally we're starting to see a common standard being build into different social networks. There are some caveats however like no support for Facebook or Myspace. Via Particls, 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 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- *** OPEN COFFEE 6 - with FACT - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/307022 *** Glow New Media t: 0151 707 9770 m: 07730 987 574 www.glow-internet.com Suite 712 Gostins Building 32-36 Hanover Street Liverpool L1 4LN Map: http://tinyurl.com/2f5nxd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
