[backstage] A Five year retrospective

2010-04-15 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Just in case you have not seen the blog (http://xrl.us/bhha3j), missed the tweet and dents... Its almost 5 years since Backstage launched into the public at OpenTech05 by Ben Metcalfe. Since then a lot of things have happened and changed. Who would have thought the political parties

[backstage] Happy Christmas BBC Backstage List

2009-12-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Ian Forrester - 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] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

2009-10-14 Thread Mr I Forrester
Just to be clear, I'm not saying we're not allowed to say anything, its just not clear what we can be said. I've heard so much about Canvas over the last year, I'm not even sure whats public, whats hear-say and whats actually secret (if anything) :) As some one said its a hot potato. I've just

Re: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

2009-09-17 Thread Mr I Forrester
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 22:04 +0100, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: I think that there's going to be a lot of unhappy freeview HDTV owners wondering why the TV they have recently bought isn't picking up the new HD channels when they're launched (especially as the TV was probably sold as HD

RE: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

2009-09-17 Thread Mr I Forrester
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 15:50 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: Moreover, you just *know* that within months of any broadcast flag implementation, the more creative technological tinkerers will have subverted the flag entirely using commonplace/free equipment and software. Like region coding,

[backstage] idea: Allow access to one's complete iPlayer viewer history

2009-09-01 Thread Mr I Forrester
Another good idea, this time from nick shanks, http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/idea/29/ At present, the iPlayer provides a short sidebar listing one's most recently viewed programmes, I wish to: a) See what I have watched b) See when I have watched it c) See how many times I

[backstage] BBC Backstage on IT Conversations

2009-08-30 Thread Mr I Forrester
I've been on holiday for the last few weeks but just before I went, I did record a interview with Jon Udell. Its now available on IT Conversations for everyone to hear - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4228.html I think I got a little confused when we got down to the Taxonomy

Re: [backstage] Fwd: Free Transcripts on NPR.org now

2009-08-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi Dan, nice idea. Would be great if you could add it to ideas.welcomebackstage.com, just so we got it in a better form for sharing and linking to. Cheers, Ian On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: NPR transcripts are now - I read - easier to find. I had a quick look around

[backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Just in case you've missed it this piece of news in the middle of a pretty hectic week. We launched a project called RD TV which is a pilot project out of BBC Backstage and BBC RAD Labs. There's plenty of information on the Backstage blog and the official readme file -

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:08 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote: On 09/04/2009, Mr I Forrester mail...@cubicgarden.com wrote: Ian and Team, Congratulations on the launch of RD TV. I've just watched the first episode (222MiB Ogg version) and enjoyed it a lot, so will be looking forward to the next

[backstage] IE8 ships today

2009-03-19 Thread Mr I Forrester
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2009/03/ready_for_ie8.html Generally the view is very positive from Mix09 but it would be... However there is lots of thoughts about people real experience of the web when they already have weird activex stuff installed already. Cheers, Ian - Sent via

[backstage] 4th Oekonux Conference - March 27th-29th in Manchester

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Sounds like OpenTech but much more focused around free software and free culture. Its also on our backstage calendar which you can also view directly now - http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/node/11 --- Free Software and Beyond

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Richard Lockwood wrote: In this day and age it *is* important to teach people about electronic security. This story completely fails to do so. There is something you could argue the BBC should be doing around this. There was a suggestion that Webwise 2.0 could be perfect for this... -

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

2009-02-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
LOL :) On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:37 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Richard Lockwood wrote: OMFG Drat! I missed that - did Anthony Reorganize His Department Again ?! But four letter words^H^H^H^H^Hdepartment acronyms are good ! - TEH CONSPIRISSY

[backstage] Mapping the World of Piracy

2009-02-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Via NewTeeVee - http://newteevee.com/2009/02/05/mapping-the-world-of-piracy/ - Enjoy! The folks at the Pirate Bay released a Google Maps mash-up Wednesday that illustrates its worldwide user base, with exact percentages by country. It’s a pretty fascinating project in that it helps to dispel

[backstage] Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source

2009-02-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Seen this in my mailbox a few times today, sure you will all find this interesting... We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Twittering on

2009-02-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Feel strongly that the BBC should use something else instead of Twitter, how about voting or offering your support here. http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/idea/16/ Cheers, Ian - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

[backstage] BarCampLondon6 announced

2009-01-31 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, With all the talk about Digital Britian, he's a great chance to discuss and maybe organise something (yeah not the best segway) BarCampLondon6 has been announced at the Guardian's new offices near Kings Cross. Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th March 2009 http://www.barcamplondon.org/ - For

Re: [backstage] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute

2009-01-21 Thread Mr I Forrester
Well without giving too much away, the techies are in control on this one. On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:34 -0800, Steve Jolly wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but

[backstage] BBC iPlayer download on Linux and Mac using AIR

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
No one seems to have picked up on the launch of the iPlayer download AIR application for Windows, Linux, OSX. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/introducing_iplayer_deskto.html I wonder why? maybe I should save it for a personal blog post... Cheers Ian - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
So one of the problems with the bbc reader, I've been told. Was that it never included a powered by backstage.bbc.co.uk. Please remember to include this attribution otherwise your prototype sits outside the backstage licence. Around the use of logos, is pretty much as James has said, although I

[backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Ok so a little while back we kind of launched or announced that we were building out some of the core parts of the backstage site into ideas.welcomebackstage.com (please note the url will change one day soon). ideas is based on the Ubuntu idea torrent project and we're happy to be supporting more

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Sure will do, but you all know its Durpal and Idea torrent software running on a beta server. I'm more concerned with what this software could enable rather that how it looks at this moment. Do keep reporting any bugs however. On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:51 +, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/12/22 Mr I

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer download on Linux and Mac using AIR

2008-12-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Sorry my mistake, I started on the Caching thread and have not caught up with it :x Ian On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 21:57 +, David Greaves wrote: Mr I Forrester wrote: No one seems to have picked up on the launch of the iPlayer download AIR application for Windows, Linux, OSX. http

Re: [backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?

2008-12-21 Thread Mr I Forrester
That was certainly news for us at backstage. I'm going to follow this up and hopefully have some better news soon. On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:50 +, Martin Deutsch wrote: Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)... Andy Alcorn is a student whose hobby is computer

[backstage] BBC Backstage Networking Bashes

2008-12-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Thanks to everyone who came out to the BBC Backstage networking bashes. Of course for the first time, we had two events one in Manchester and one in London. Across the country we have a rough count of about 370 people attend and everyone enjoyed the events. For those who missed the

Re: [backstage] Excuse the rant....

2008-12-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yes we've all experienced this time to time. I have this at every Holiday Inn hotel I stay at. On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:17 +, Peter Bowyer wrote: iPlayer thinks that the Hilton Hotel, Leeds is outside the UK. Doubtless because Hilton's hotel broadband is provided by 'i-Bahn', which sounds

Re: [backstage] Backstage logo design competition is live!

2008-11-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Good good! On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 07:58 +, Brian Butterworth wrote: I have a few ideas in process as well. On 7 Nov 2008, 8:27 PM, Alun Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a design I'm working on... On 7 Nov 2008, at 19:17,

[backstage] BBC Backstage meets the London Communities Christmas Party

2008-11-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yes we made the title so long you need to catch your breath mid flow :) Well the tickets are open, so what you waiting for? Details are on upcoming - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1225222 and you can claim your free ticket by going to -

Re: [backstage] Invite - MiniBar November - Special

2008-11-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thanks Christian, but were really a text only list. Cheers On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:40 +, Christian Ahlert wrote: Hi all In November we will have a special format. You can come at 5pm and mix with international web entrepreneurs, who have been brought over

[backstage] BBC Backstage Meets the Communities of the North and London Christmas Party

2008-10-30 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, So as mentioned in a previous email, were having our Christmas party on the 13th December. One in London and one in Manchester. The Manchester one is already taking bookings - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1225186 While the London one is just around the corner but we are sorting out

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

2008-10-28 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thanks Al, So idea torrent is brainstorm or brainstorm is the ubuntu name for the same thing. I've not setup the filters yet. Odd I'll look into the submit problem, I think it might be permissions again. Cheers On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 01:39 +, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/10/28 Mr I Forrester

[backstage] Changes at Backstage

2008-10-27 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Things at Backstage have been quite hectic but also quiet to the public. So whats been going on? Well here's a list which I think you will find interesting. 1. New BBC Backstage Blog with comments 2. New BBC Backstage Logo Competition 3. PA Press Event API via Backstage 4. New ideas

[backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

2008-10-27 Thread Mr I Forrester
So carrying on from the previous email. Ideas store is ready to go. We thought about strapping down everything but it seems pointless, so instead once you setup a user account you can do quite a bit and if not we tweak the permissions so it works as you guys expect. So I urge you try it out and

Re: [backstage] iPhone iPlayer

2008-10-15 Thread Mr I Forrester
This is what kills me about iphone users, they think this stuff is new. Not only can you do this on WinMo but also over Bluetooth :p On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 02:39 +0100, Jim Tonge wrote: Jailbreak, then use PDAnet (available through Cydia). works over ad- hoc wifi network. On 13 Oct 2008, at

[backstage] Interview with Jonathan Schwartz

2008-10-06 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, We were able to grab a quick interview with Jonathan Schwartz CEO of Sun Microsystems a little while ago. Due to problems with Audacity its taken a while to finally edit it down, but finally its here. its all recorded at there end, hence why I sound very muffled. I tried to ask the

Re: [backstage] Google developer day 2008

2008-07-24 Thread Mr I Forrester
As far as I know so far, nope. But I'm sure once I read through the thousands of emails I've avoided due to being on holiday we might have a different story. Cheers Ian Gitesh Khodiyar wrote: Registration for this years UK event is now open: http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2008/

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software talk: Ian Forrester, BBC Backstage - 22nd July

2008-07-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Quick reminder to people in and around Manchester... This is tonight... Tim Dobson wrote: Ian seems to be getting to know Manchester! :) I hope that some of you can make it! Tim -- Forwarded message -- From: Lucy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/7/11 Subject:

Re: [backstage] Dailysnooze - Vista Gadgets - Homepage

2008-07-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Great stuff Fraser. If I had a start page, I would use it. Cheers, posted on the backstage prototypes now [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For the past 6 or 7 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20030711135006/dailysnooze.com/en/) I have run http://www.dailysnooze.com - mainly because I wanted

Re: [backstage] Quick idea for BBC News video

2008-07-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not so sure, its actually a good idea I think. A simple querystring element which starts the video as soon as possible. I'll put it in our ideas section, including your reason why not :) Peter Bowyer wrote: You pretty much talked yourself out

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So a little history I was approached by a large company to run a competition based on there technology. The base technology was xml but required there software to play it back. I did turn down the offer for many of the reasons brought up on the list

Re: [backstage] So was *this* what Mr. Cridland was referring to recently?

2008-06-26 Thread Mr I Forrester
YES!! Just for the lazy, One thing conspicuously missing from the current iPlayer site is the provision of RSS feeds http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedfactory/. For those who want to consume our content via their RSS reader, or who want to create mashups

[backstage] The TechCrunch BBC Debate

2008-06-26 Thread Mr I Forrester
From yesterdays debate, http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/25/live-blog-bbc-techcrunch-debate/ Videos going up here - http://cubicgarden.blip.tv Cheers - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

[backstage] OpenTech 2008

2008-06-26 Thread Mr I Forrester
Don't forget backstagers If your in London and having sleepless nights after mashed. Theres OpenTech 2008 on 5th July. Look out we may have something very special to announce at Opentech 2008! - Open Tech 2008

Re: [backstage] Protoype - News Mash Up

2008-06-25 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thanks guys, Any more prototypes which people want to send in, are best sent to the mailing list too. Cheers Richard Askew wrote: First Prototype submission too! Some months ago I asked the guys on here to help me out with the gathering BBC content so that I could put my application into

Re: [backstage] Backstage's future plans

2008-06-24 Thread Mr I Forrester
Capital letters? Why? :) No only kidding, will see what I can do Richard Lockwood wrote: Hope you're feeling better Ian; can I make a request please? Can we have some captal letters at the start of sentences in the text on the green background please? Please?? Cheers, Rich.

Re: [backstage] Backstage's future plans

2008-06-24 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yes and the URL of backstage isn't going to change by the way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah looked a little more and worked that out. Silly me! Looks nice. On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:04:19 +0100, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm presuming the

Re: [backstage] Event: Adventure in Technology

2008-06-23 Thread Mr I Forrester
Shevek wrote: Hi, It was great to see you all at Mashed, thank you for making it even better than last year! We're organising a technology festival in Bristol this Saturday 28th June. The web site is at http://www.techadventure.org/ and contains details and directions. We want as many

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] Ashley Highfield of Beeb reviews Linux after Jono Bacon visits him

2008-06-23 Thread Mr I Forrester
So far Ashley's review has got - 635 Diggs, so help us digg it up some more http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ashley_Highfield_BBC_executive_Reviews_Ubuntu Only takes 2 seconds. Brian Butterworth wrote: I saw this. It made me happy! 2008/6/20 Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

[backstage] Backstage's future plans

2008-06-23 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, I know a whole load of you missed out on Mashed, which was a great success and I know your all kicking yourselves. But during the event, I also gave a presentation which included some things we been up to and are working on... Rather that post the presentation, I thought I'd post a

Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate

2008-06-18 Thread Mr I Forrester
Peter Bowyer wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ Yep I assumed everyone just knew about it too. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - Sent via

Re: [backstage] List admin

2008-06-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
I have removed the email address. Sorry for the delay in this people. Morris, Nat wrote: Hi, Is someone able to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] taken off the list to stop their autoresponder bot flooding the list? Its replying to every post and itself! Cheers, Nat, - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] BBC blog RSS feeds go... full text! Yay!

2008-06-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Now we can start looking at some more of our RSS output being full text James Cridland wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/full_articletext_feeds_for_bbc.html I've been asking for months. No, years. Finally. Hurray! Well done Jem, Aaron, and the others. - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] iPlayer - turning it up to 11

2008-06-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Talking of which my Pacemaker.net DJ tool also has headphones which goes up to 11. its always the little things which raise a smile. Iain Wallace wrote: My sentiments exactly. It's little things like this that remind me that I love the Beeb :) On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Chris Riley

Re: [backstage] Thinking Digital conference

2008-05-27 Thread Mr I Forrester
I am going to double check with a couple of the people behind Thinking Digital but I think its pretty safe to say this whole thing is spam. The videos for thinking digital were up online as the conference finished on Friday. There will be a podcast but once again they will be hosted else where

[backstage] Thinking Digital conference

2008-05-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Backstage is sponsoring a few a events around the thinking digital conference, if your up in the North East of England and want to hang out (lobbycom), chat with some great speakers. Drop into the Sage in Gateshead. We're running a geekdinner on Friday night which leads nicely into

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
No no, Redbull on tap... That would boost productivity :) Cridland, i'm hot on your heels Matthew Cashmore wrote: There would be lots more beanbags, for one thing. I think beanbags and hammocks should be available in more offices. And perhaps more beer fridges... May

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Andrew Bowden wrote: So I highly recommend everyone goes there and votes for the guy at the end of the list ;-) Mr Cridland is getting far too much support, we need to put him back in his place. Do it or I'll convert the backstage list to a MSN group ;-) You've been warned Well

Re: [backstage] full posts in BBC rss feeds?

2008-04-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi Frankie, Data is in a need of refresh, agreed. Reason why BBC news don't do full text feeds is because of rights involving the content. Thats the simple answer, but I'm happy to discuss in more detail if you like? frankie roberto wrote: This might have been asked before, but... ...can

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
vijay chopra wrote: But how many times have you voted for yourself? ;p On 16/04/2008, *Mr I Forrester* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cridland, i'm hot on your heels Actually I only voted for another person once, thought it would be cheeky to vote for myself

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Gareth Davis wrote: Peter Bowyer wrote: On 16/04/2008, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be the first order of the day - a beanbag for all staff and free beer in the meeting rooms. Last.fm has the ballpit (with webcams) and the BPI has the free beer, I

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-15 Thread Mr I Forrester
Peter Bowyer wrote: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/who-should-be-the-next-web-guru-of-the-bbc-vote-now/ Damm your quick! So I highly recommend everyone goes there and votes for the guy at the end of the list ;-) Mr Cridland is getting far too much support, we need to put him back in

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-14 Thread Mr I Forrester
Come on guys, enough microsoft/adobe jokes. If you could seriously put someone into the position of director of future media and technology who would it be and what qualities would you be looking for? I guess I shouldn't really say who I'd like to see, otherwise it will appear in the

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-12 Thread Mr I Forrester
The comments are tiresome - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/iplayer_linux_stream_download_hack/comments/ Thank goodness for the backstage list eh? This seems a lot better written - http://www.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/ipods/bbc-happy-to-go-drm-free--261475 I'm out of the

Re: [backstage] BBC Support page

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I don't think anyone wants to see live internet operations :) Good suggestion Adam Leach wrote: Just trying to find a support page as i've got a number of errors when accessing the weather page and i've come across this http://www.bbc.co.uk/support/ Shame it isn't a live stream, we could see

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I will attempt to get some answers to your questions, although I think the iphone service is only a beta service at the moment? Andy Halsall wrote: This morning I came across the following; Subject: Re: [GeekUp] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] iPlayer DRM is over? From: Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Ok so I spoke to many people and there is no official answer, yet! Yes I know your all waiting with baited for some news but your'll have to wait a little longer it would seem. Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother wouldn't be happy about. :) Cheers Mr I Forrester

Re: [backstage] RSS Feed Thumbnails Missing

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
I've fwd'ed on your email, hopefully it will be fixed soon. Fraser Murrell wrote: Hi, I noticed that for all news RSS feeds, the media:thumbnail elements that normally provided us with a link to a thumbnail image of a particular article is no longer present.. As of around 11:00 this

Re: [backstage] Own up now, who was this?

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Oh thats funny :) lol Matt Barber wrote: Haha On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://dumpedimage.com/?image=843 :D - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk http://backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

[backstage] Over the Air sign-up now live

2008-03-10 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Seeing how everyone's so obsessed with the iPlayer streams on the iPhone :) I thought you'd all like to know the official sign-up for Over the Air has now gone live - http://overtheair.org/blog/?page_id=20 If you don't know what Over the Air here's a quick recap. Over the Air, is

Re: [backstage] Undermining iPlayer DRM

2008-03-07 Thread Mr I Forrester
Well I knew this was coming... :) Now I'm looking for some really innovative ways to view BBC iplayer content... I think the Xbmc and Wii developers can now go off and build something. Phil Wilson wrote: Have now switched user-agents and am browsing away ;) aaand we're away

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yes I see the odd one out :) Tim Dobson wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: 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 After Barcamp I think there are a few ideas in a more generally direction, not just

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yes awesome Matthew! Phil Wilson wrote: I knocked up a little unsophisticated something: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-iplayer-quick/ :-) This is ace, thanks Matthew. Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
I like the idea of this, hard sell but who knows maybe a prototype could bring this to life. David Greaves wrote: 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

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thanks to everyone who answered, some really interesting thoughts for DMI and other advanced prototypes. I'm presenting your ideas on Friday, so this is what I have across two slides In-programme timing of generic objects or people Access to the Edit logs of programme makers Access to the

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

2008-03-05 Thread Mr I Forrester
I don't believe there will be, but ability.net have said they want to do more of them depending on this event. Maybe even even up north Tim. Fearghas McKay wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:24, Tim Dobson wrote: students... (yes, £90 *is* a lot for a student if you add it to travel and

Re: [backstage] Request Frequency

2008-02-08 Thread Mr I Forrester
Yep if you can cache or database the calls, then great. If not, well the way the BBC infrastructure is set-up, we are supplying a cached copy anyway. I expect we will tell you if it gets out of hand. Cheers Ian Richard Lockwood wrote: Why not database the data the first time it's grabbed in

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-06 Thread Mr I Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of this is documented in that xboxmediacenter.com forum which Ian posted a link to earlier (in fact the starting post of this thread I think), including an executable PHP script for generating the URL for the RTMP stream. Thanks Phil I was going to say the same :)

[backstage] Coming up for Backstage in 2008, what you may not know....

2008-01-06 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi Guys, So yes I've been meaning to write this post around the time of Christmas but it didn't quite happen. I blame the cheap drink prices in Bristol. -- So as I alluded to in a post about recently, we have set-up a IRC server which will be used for live chats between

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
Martin Deutsch wrote: On 1/4/08, *Ian Forrester* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case anyone missed it, there's a bunch of developers trying to bring BBC iPlayer content to the Xbox1 and Wii. The main thread can be found here -

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
Andy wrote: On 04/01/2008, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if your building a iplayer for an exotic device platform, do get in touch. Quick questions: Adobe Flash is prohibited on non-PC systems, is the BBC suggesting we violate Adobe's EULA or just not use the streaming

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
Andy wrote: On 04/01/2008, Phil Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need the iPlayer source. All of the heavy lifting on the client is done by Flash itself. Flash is somewhat inefficient as it's adding an extra layer in the way of the hardware. It is also prohibited to use the

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
Dave Crossland wrote: On 04/01/2008, Barry Carlyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: silly point - Just in case anyone missed it, there's a bunch of developers trying to bring BBC iPlayer content to the Xbox1 and Wii. The main thread can be found here -

Re: [backstage] Programme Catalogue offline

2007-12-29 Thread Mr I Forrester
Its going to be a while but we are working on it. I expect sometime during Jan/Feb it will be back up in some form. Martin Deutsch wrote: Hi folks, The Progamme Catalogue http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax has been experiencing some technical difficulties and unavailable for a couple of

Re: [backstage] uk_rt XMLTV listings stopped updating on 19th Dec

2007-12-28 Thread Mr I Forrester
Strange will email some people Stuart Ward wrote: David Greaves said the following on 25/12/07 18:37: Hi XMLTV/Backstagers Looking here: http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/ It's clear there have been no updates since the 19th Dec. It would be awfully seasonally spirited if someone were

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2007-12-28 Thread Mr I Forrester
I'm sorry you feel that way. Outlook 2003 is standard issue on most BBC desktops and laptops, and you know how weird outlook can be as default :) I spend most of my time using Thunderbird ;) Oh quick question for everyone - should I switch over to Evolution? Michael Walsh wrote: And

[backstage] Eddie Mair wants you to mashup their audience geodata

2007-12-12 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, I've put a blog post explain in full the details of the Radio 4's PM programmes call for audience postcodes. - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2007/12/eddie_mair_of_b.html But I also wanted to make sure you all knew that the data set created from this data will be released

Re: [backstage] The BBC Backstage Christmas Party 2007

2007-12-03 Thread Mr I Forrester
Can I just add if someone would setup a parallel event that would be great! Matt Lee wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: Who else is up for this? :-) How many other people would attend a parallel event, run somewhere outside London, like.. Manchester? matt - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-03 Thread Mr I Forrester
open sourcing code will only take you so far: http://iamseb.com/seb/2007/12/perl-on-rails-why-the-bbc-fails-at-the-internet/ Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore the situation that has forced them to do this. Just to answer a couple of things

[backstage] The BBC Backstage Christmas Party 2007

2007-11-28 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Yes Christmas is a time for peace and humanity across the backstage list :) (Well at least it will be till you all read about Kangaroo Project - http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/06/project_kangaroo_logical_for_w.html Anyway, as most of you know we always try and run a

[backstage] PlugLondon

2007-11-14 Thread Mr I Forrester
Hi All, Just in case you haven't already seen, the first pluglondon happens on 8th December at the Skype offices just off Tottenham Court Road. Its event which has very strong aims... 1. A place we can discuss, explore and showcase interoperability and evolution of platforms and

[backstage] Late notice but Joost developer day

2007-11-13 Thread Mr I Forrester
From our friends at Joost -- We're delighted to invite you to Joost's first developer days, a chance for you to meet some of our developers, get some tips for building Joost widgets, and share your own experiences in building them. *Who:* These workshops are aimed at

Re: [backstage] Now playing

2007-11-13 Thread Mr I Forrester
Thanks Chris, it looks good. Its almost like the Comet/TCP hold thing those great guys did a while ago. http://www.sleevenotez.com I'll add it to the backstage prototypes later today. Cheers Ian Chris Riley wrote: Apologies for posting this to both lists, but it applies to both the masses

[backstage] BarCampLondon3 Tickets now available

2007-10-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
http://barcamp.org/BarCampLondon3 Be quick otherwise they will go in seconds. Ian - 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:

Re: [backstage] Wii News Channel

2007-10-16 Thread Mr I Forrester
Talking of developing for the Wii, I was playing with the everyone votes channel and I was thinking this would be cool for bbc news votes. Some of votes are already quite political in nature and with a worldwide base of 5million Wii's online? This could be pretty cool as an experiment. Shall

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-09 Thread Mr I Forrester
So yes once again there are some good points in the thread. We have been knocking on peoples doors about more feeds and api's and I do believe once we have the API gateway system in place, you guys will finally see more of them. Also look out for more diverse API's because the API gateway

Re: [backstage] Browser statistics

2007-10-07 Thread Mr I Forrester
I'll see if I can get this done again, with as much detail as possible. Cheers, Ian Allan Jardine wrote: Hello all, A while ago the BBC released a set of browser statistics for people viewing the bbc.co.uk web-site ( http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg03899.html -

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
Wasn't exactly what I was asking but there you go. I actually asked if Matt had noticed a natural cycle of communities starting, dying, reviving, peaking, dying... It was also in challenge to Matt saying he'd never seen a community die earlier in the talk. I'm not a keen metafilter person so

[backstage] From FoWA - Paul Graham from Y Combinator

2007-10-04 Thread Mr I Forrester
I attended the FOWA conference and have quite a blog post saved up from my notes. But I wanted to explorer the myths or truths of Silicon Valley. Paul Graham this morning said you should move to silicon valley if your serious about this stuff or at least its an advantage. This caused quite a

Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee

2007-10-03 Thread Mr I Forrester
Well it was worth linking to, I felt Jason Cartwright wrote: Thanks for posting this here Ian, I was too chicken. My blog is going nuts with hits from the BBC proxies :-) J On 10/3/07, *Mr I Forrester* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a similar vein to Tom Coates

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