[backstage] A couple of neat things recently

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, I've finally made it back from the north of England. Had a very good time in Newcastle and Leeds. But I was made aware of two nice technologies which might be useful for Backstage Prototypes in the future. First up is Comet which is basically a server push without any client interacti

Re: [backstage] Web API issue with Radio Four?

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew McParland
Hi Pete, > Indeed. Is there any sign of this service moving from prototype/beta to > something more/less? Good question. I've talked to a few people a month or so ago about a properly supported public facing API to our schedule data. The summary is that there is a desire to do it, but there is

Re: [backstage] A couple of neat things recently

2006-11-16 Thread Gareth Rodger
Hi Ian, Adobe's been (rather silently) doing the odd live online conference for future Apollo developers. Keep an eye out on Adobe's events page. The next one is scheduled for Nov 28th: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm? event=detail&id=648909&loc=en_us I must admit, the quality

[backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
So this is what I've done so far... Let me know what you think, http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v2.jpg http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v3.jpg http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshi

[backstage] Yet another traffic site

2006-11-16 Thread Alistair
Hello all, Came across this site by accident. Don't see it mentioned in the prototypes. Uses the Microsoft map. http://www.trafficeye.co.uk/ Al. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscri

RE: [backstage] Web API issue with Radio Four?

2006-11-16 Thread Pete Cole
Hi Andrew, > When I get a chance I'll update the streams. If you could, I'll be grateful - the widget competition winner is a rather useless without them and whilst it may not be overloading your servers I know there are (were) a few people using it regularly. > Due to us mainly using the data a

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Ian Forrester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v4.jpg I like this one best. But I really liked the idea of the tag cloud going all round the t-shirt. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell f

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Somerville
Ian Forrester wrote: Let me know what you think, I like v4, without any sort of underlining. Then I looked a bit closer, and I like v4 even more because it has "developers" and "community", both of which appear to be missing from v2 and v3. :) ATB, Matthew http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Richard P Edwards
I'll have one of the V5's Ian :-) If I had a choice, I would take out "secondlife" (needless advertising perhaps) and add "moped"... just as a smiley. All the best Richard On 16 Nov 2006, at 15:13, Ian Forrester wrote: So this is what I've done so far... Let me know what you think, ht

RE: [backstage] Yet another traffic site

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
Ah thanks for the heads up Alistair Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alistair Sent: 16 November 2006 15:30 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Yet another traffic site Hello al

RE: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
I would love that too, but that would add a lot more cost to the T-shirts and that would mean not everyone would get one :( Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nic James Ferrier Sent: 16 November

RE: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
Ok all good point, how about this - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v6.jpg Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Somerville Sent: 16 November 2006

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Neil Roberts
can't you just raise the license fee ;) On 11/16/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would love that too, but that would add a lot more cost to the T-shirts and that would mean not everyone would get one :( Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 -Original Message- Fr

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Kerry
Looks good, very geek sheek. Can I have "evilgreenmonkey" as part of my cloud? It's a great conversation starter :o) Rob On 16/11/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok all good point, how about this - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v6.jpg

RE: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Ian Forrester
Cheeky! :) can't you just raise the license fee ;) On 11/16/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would love that too, but that would add a lot more cost to the T-shirts and that would mean not everyone would get one :(

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Nic James Ferrier
"Ian Forrester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok all good point, how about this - > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas/backstage%20cloud%20tshirt%20v6.jpg Brilliant. Love it. Can I have printed on a barbour please? -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapse

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

2006-11-16 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Ian, a pity to exclude the individuals other than BBC, but perhaps that's what you get paid for... still google, yahoo and secondlife get a look in, can't say why though... suggest background be same colour as tshirt, are they black? with a less well defined 'edge' clouds rarely look so mu

[backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Cross
I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the perfect tool to do that with and 2/ when I was working on Postcoder earlier this year there was lots of talk about releasing the API as part of Backstage

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Loosemore
best I can do ,... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?GridConvert?name=529811,189466&type=OSGrid On 16/11/06, Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a couple of hundred full UK postcodes that I want to convert to lat/long values. And I thought to myself 1/ Postcoder would be the p

Re: [backstage] Postcoder

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Pritchard
use the google ajax search api, http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/, you can search for post codes and it returns a town name and some lat/lng values - not sure how accurate/precise it is On 16/11/06, Tom Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: best I can do ,... http://www.streetmap.co.uk/st