Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
There is a specifications document now at: http://www.dvb.org/technology/dvbt2/a122.tm3980r5.DVB-T2.pdf 2008/6/27 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone had any luck picking this up? I have a HDTV with a Freeview tuner, but have no idea if this is capable of picking up HD over the air... is it

RE: [backstage] MHEG-5 Wimbledon on Freesat?

2008-07-02 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
what I don't understand is why someone is saying they can't watch wimbledon on the BBC since I could watch it both on TV and live streamed on the bbc website yesterday From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Christopher Woods Sent: Tue 01/07/2008 6:35 PM To:

RE: [backstage] MHEG-5 Wimbledon on Freesat?

2008-07-02 Thread Andrew Bowden
It is indeed. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 01 July 2008 17:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] MHEG-5 Wimbledon on Freesat?

Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
I just asked Hauppauge if any of their exiting kit would work with DVB-T2, and they said I'm afraid that we do not have any product that would support DVB-T2, at the same time there's no plan of releasing one, at least until 2009. Looks like a very closed trial to me! 2008/6/27 Steve Jolly

[backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Loosemore
The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force just launched a competition for mash up ideas using public data. See www.ShowUsABetterway.com Some new government APIsand data dumps too: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/data.html Neighbourhood Statistics API from the ONS, Health care

[backstage] Election Observers verdict on London Elections e-counting

2008-07-02 Thread Glyn Wintle
The Open Rights Group's report into e-counting of votes cast in the London Elections is out today. http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/07/02/org-verdict-on-london-elections-insufficient-evidence-to-declare-confidence-in-results/ The report finds that: there is insufficient evidence available

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
This looks quite interesting... http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/ 2008/7/2 Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force just launched a competition for mash up ideas using public data. See www.ShowUsABetterway.com Some new government

Re: [backstage] BBC begins DVB-T2 test transmissions in preparation for HD on Freeview

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Jolly
Brian Butterworth wrote: I just asked Hauppauge if any of their exiting kit would work with DVB-T2, and they said I'm afraid that we do not have any product that would support DVB-T2, at the same time there's no plan of releasing one, at least until 2009. Looks like a very closed trial to

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Peter Bowyer
$DAYJOB hat on - I can help get queries about the NHS Choices data answered. Peter On 02/07/2008, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force just launched a competition for mash up ideas using public data. See www.ShowUsABetterway.com Some

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Loosemore
... read the licence constraints first still, it's a start! 2008/7/2 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This looks quite interesting... http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/ 2008/7/2 Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Cabinet Office's Power of Information Task Force

RE: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Adam Hatia
On the subject of open maps (or not so in the case of the OS), you might be interested in this project: http://openstreetmap.org/ (the idea being to create open free to use street map data) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

[backstage] BBC Widget, nice!

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
Just looking at the BBC Widget... http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/free_range_widgets.html Seems OK, but it does fall into the recycled feeds category... Love the blurry slide to read the story! -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Rafiq Swash
I am building a football discussion website. I would like to use BBC API to retrieve football scores and also league tables. Is there anyone who can give a little tip please. thank you regards, Rafiq From: Adam Hatia Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:25 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Adam
I doubt you have very little chance with the BBC as i think they republished information maintained by a third party who have very strict distribution rules. Your probably better trying to talk to the FA. Alternativly there is the following message at the bottom of the fixture list, however

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Rafiq Swash
Thank you very much Adam ! I will try to contact to FA or other premier league Co. lets see if I can find a free source. I have been looking for a source, where I can read All football clubs and national teams and football score information via web services. However, I could not find one

RE: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Andrew Bowden
I'm not sure you'll find anything free - as I recall there were a several incidents a few years ago where the data owners went after websites who were putting tables and fixtures up without paying a licence fee. But you never know. From: [EMAIL

[backstage] iPlayer 2 - wow!

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
The new iPlayer looks great and seems to work exceptionally well http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/ It all works as advertised here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/iplayerbeta/ Just one tiny little niggle.. if you start listening to a radio programme using RealPlayer (I'm not in the UK right now)

RE: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Andrew Bowden
In fact there's some debate on this from 2005 on the backstage website http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ideas/archives/2005/05/league_tables.html From: Andrew Bowden Sent: 02 July 2008 15:46 To: 'backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk' Subject: RE:

Re: [backstage] New Government APIs (plus win 20k to develop your mashup idea)

2008-07-02 Thread Rafiq Swash
MediaWiki provides the content of the site as database, which is for non-commercial purposes. Do you think, it is ok if I used it for my website, which I am not making money from. It is just there for my friends and football lovers to discuss about up coming matches and passed matches.I

[backstage] Conference calls

2008-07-02 Thread Gavin Pearce
Good day to you lovely people =), Bit of topic I do apologise, but might be able to point me in the right direction. Conference calls, we all love to hate them. We're a small business and sometimes find ourselves getting asked if we can set-up a conference call. We don't get asked often

Re: [backstage] Conference calls

2008-07-02 Thread Nick Crossland
conferencegenie.co.uk looks good, but you can't password protect a room, which is a bit of an issue in my opinion. If you picked the same room number as someone else, you would get very confused! For private rooms, it says it's £10+VAT one-off, not per month. - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Conference calls

2008-07-02 Thread Brian Butterworth
There's always POTS http://www.conferencing.bt.com/product_services/audioservices/btconferencecallglobal.jsp 2008/7/2 Gavin Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good day to you lovely people =), Bit of topic I do apologise, but might be able to point me in the right direction. Conference calls,