[backstage] SecondLife mashups are where its at?

2006-11-02 Thread Mr I Forrester
According to Kim, and I can hardly disagree after seeing the 3D Weather data visualisation [2] I also found this nice post from Knossos [3] about LL (linden scripting language) and how Second Life will move over to MONO (open .net) soon. There still seems to be a reason to learning LSL because

RE: [backstage] Weather data...not weather description

2006-11-02 Thread Kathryn Schmitt
Hello Mark and backstagers, I agree that one shouldn't have to parse the weather data out of the comments. As I mentioned in my initial announcement of the weather feeds, additional semantic mark-up is on our list of things to add to the feeds. It was not in the first release because a) any name

[backstage] [ANN] Call for Participation, XTech 2007

2006-11-02 Thread Edd Dumbill
Paris in the springtime! Full details below. Thanks, -- Edd Call for Participation -- XTech 2007 http://2007.xtech.org/ Paris, France. 15-18 May 2007 Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2007, Europe's premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submittin

RE: [backstage] BBC Backstage Widget entries

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Forrester
We can remove your entry if you didn't enter it for the contest? Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 02 November 2006 19:47To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] BBC Ba

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage Widget entries

2006-11-02 Thread Mario Menti
On 11/2/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I have put up the 9 entries we received for the widget contest.http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/11/bbc_backstage_w.html Don't forget we will be announcing the winners at the Backstage Bash on Monday, but if your not there we w

[backstage] BBC Backstage Widget entries

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi all, I have put up the 9 entries we received for the widget contest. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/11/bbc_backstage_w.html Don't forget we will be announcing the winners at the Backstage Bash on Monday, but if your not there we will email you the next day. This will be our f

Re: [backstage] Please ignore this test

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Birbeck
Hi Richard, Yes, thanks for that. As it happened I knew from other lists that I'm on, that GMail did this--but without the web archive I had no way of knowing for sure that the posts were getting through...and I hadn't spotted the "unofficial archive". And to make it worse, since the first two po

Re: [backstage] Please ignore this test

2006-11-02 Thread Richard Lockwood
Hi Mark, Gmail doesn't tell you you've got an email from any mailing list when you've posted it - it took me a while to get used to it. If you've posted to an existing thread on a list it simply appends your email to your copy of that thread. If you've started a new thread then your message is

[backstage] Weather data...not weather description

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Birbeck
Hi all, I tried posting to the relevant blog entry, but couldn't get it through. Anyway, the RSS weather feeds nicely contain the long/lat values as separate elements, but unfortunately they merge all of the actual weather data into a simple text comment. It's not very useful for reusing in othe

Re: [backstage] Please ignore this test

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Riley
Hi Mark,I think GMail "intelligently" detects the mail you sent to the list is the same as the one it later receives from the list, and so hides it.  However if you look at say the mail archive page for backstage http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/, it should appear on there whe

RE: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Forrester
Hey wait a moment! :)   Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard P EdwardsSent: 01 November 2006 16:02To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for

[backstage] Please ignore this test

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Birbeck
If you're reading this then you didn't ignore the test! I do apologise, but GMail doesn't seem to be sending any of my posts through to backstage...so this is "a post about nothing", just to see if I can narrow down where the problem lies. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e:

Re: [backstage] Searching for phrase in news search RSS?

2006-11-02 Thread Stephen Betts
Hi Marko, I'm Team Leader for the Online Systems Devleopment team in News Interactive. It's the OSD team that develops most of the Web Search development for the BBC, including the RSS Search service at http://newsapi.bbc.co.uk/feeds/search/. At present, we strip out quotation marks from queries

RE: [backstage] Innovation Days...

2006-11-02 Thread Claire Stocks
Yeh I am Ian, Claire -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Moss Sent: 02 November 2006 09:51 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Innovation Days... Hey, Just wondered how the 2 innovation days have gone so far. All being we

[backstage] Innovation Days...

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Moss
Hey, Just wondered how the 2 innovation days have gone so far. All being well me and a colleague will be at the Manchester Day. Anyone else on here going to the Manchester one ? All the best, Ian http://alteris.co.uk p.s. check out http://geekup.org if you are in the Manchester/NW area...

RE: [backstage] checks & balances: validating the BBC

2006-11-02 Thread Andrew Bowden
Most of which are caused by the use of XHTML style tags within a HTML 4.0 doctype, along with that age old favourite, not encoding the &'s (oh the bain of my life that one!) I suspect whacking an XHTML doctype on would solve a lot of the additional errors that are thrown up - the W3C validator do