[backstage] Three Kinds Of Platforms

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi All, I thought this old (well, September) post by Marc Andreessen was interesting. http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-three-kinds.html It strikes me that the forth (#0) platform is, er, our own computers :-) -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscri

Re: [backstage] Advertising on the BBC Website

2007-12-08 Thread Fearghas McKay
Adam On 8 Dec 2007, at 18:55, Adam Leach wrote: I'm currently looking at the latest scores page on the BBC web site (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/live_scores/default.stm ) and there are two adverts on the page. One advert is between the grey and red bar at the top of t

Re: [backstage] Advertising on the BBC Website

2007-12-08 Thread Gary Kirk
I see no such thing, thankfully! On 08/12/2007, Adam Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently looking at the latest scores page on the BBC web site > ( > http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/live_scores/default.stm > ) > and there are two adverts on the page. One

[backstage] Advertising on the BBC Website

2007-12-08 Thread Adam Leach
Hi, I'm currently looking at the latest scores page on the BBC web site (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/live_scores/default.stm) and there are two adverts on the page. One advert is between the grey and red bar at the top of the page and the other is down the right hand

Re: [backstage] How do things actually become open source at the BBC (was Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software)

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Sparks
On Saturday 08 December 2007 16:39:12 Dave Crossland wrote: > On 08/12/2007, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aside from that, your point is, in my opinion, a good example of > > something that directly impacts or should be impacted by section 87 > > paragraph 4 of the charter agreemen

Re: [backstage] How do things actually become open source at the BBC (was Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software)

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 08/12/2007, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aside from that, your point is, in my opinion, a good example of something > that directly impacts or should be impacted by section 87 paragraph 4 of the > charter agreement, Please can you give a URL for the charter you refer to? The o

Re: [backstage] How do things actually become open source at the BBC (was Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software)

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Sparks
On Saturday 08 December 2007 14:06:37 Dave Crossland wrote: > I think its important to distinguish between the publication of > private, internal tools as free software, and the publication as free > software of software required to view BBC media. I think you have to be careful here. I (deliber

Re: [backstage] How do things actually become open source at the BBC (was Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software)

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 08/12/2007, Michael Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finally though, the single best (recent) contribution I've had is this "I'm > still using your greylisting server, works great". People rarely post to > mailing lists saying something works. Michael, thanks for this very interesting and

[backstage] How do things actually become open source at the BBC (was Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software)

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Sparks
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:16:19 Andy wrote: > On 05/12/2007, Matthew Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The delay is just a > > small-team-working-on-/programmes-and-trying-to-fit-it-all-in thing. > > Any chance of explaining what the BBC actually have to do when someone > says "let's open s

Re: [backstage] The next big thing in ipTV

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Sparks
On Friday 07 December 2007 19:07:51 Matthew Cashmore wrote: > I'd be really interested in everyone's thoughts I don't run an appropriate OS. The next big thing in TV will be cross platform. That's why Youtube is a hugely popular service grown by 2 individuals. (the last big thing in TV personall