The /programmes team have been progressing well with further developments to the /programmes site and now have a useful set of feeds (XML, JSON, YAML and even some txt) - including ones for schedule views and genre aggregations, as well as some iCal views. There are still more features coming - so keep checking back to see what else has been added.
For information on the feeds available, please visit the /programmes site developers page.
For more information it is worth reading Tom Scott's post and Duncan Robertson's in-depth post about the iCal views.
For people who have already found the Schedule feeds, it is worth noting that the structure of the existing schedules feeds will change soon (by the end of July if all goes to plan). This move is to a future-proofed and better structure, based on the feedback received. There is a hybrid format available to allow you to transition your apps to the new format - we will remove support for the old structure on 30th July.
Feedback is welcomed through the backstage mailing list.
Steve
A beautifully done ,
For the I have run https://www.dailysnooze.com - mainly because I wanted a quick loading simple homepage for my browser, which included the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ headlines and weather. Long gone are the days of screen scraping the bbc news pages and now luckily we have access to some nice feeds!
Things have moved on a little and we now have a few extras based on backstage feeds:
- browser homepage (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News and Weather)
I only just released the gadgets so thought I should share them a bit further. They are also available from the website itself.For the homepage the brief I have always stuck to is "quick loading and simple", and I like to think I have a good balance in my slightly biased opinion.
From the tech side of things the gadgets/homepage get their data from my
hosted DB and associated web services. I have an app running at home which
updates the server DB regularly with the feed information.
Tonight ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage will be leading a discussion on the changing state of the industry and what changes its making to make sure it stays relevant into the unknown future.
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage is a developer network for the public in which the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ opens its doors to as much data and content as possible. Now in its third year, Backstage is changing to reflect the changes in the landscape and placement in industry.
Ian Forrester, the head of Backstage, will explain some of the changes and outline some the big topics which Backstage are tackling ahead of the rest of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and its unclear future in its new home of Salford Quays.
More details .
The videos from the talk are now available on blip.tv in , and
Hello, I’m Rain and I’ve just joined the backstage team. For my first blog post I’d like to tell you about an interesting talk I went to last week...
It’s really great that user-led innovation is being taken seriously these days and I was really pleased
when I got an invite to to hear some presentations and discussion on the subject. This is an area that I’ll be following closely as it’ll be interesting to see how policy develops around this stuff, especially in IP and copyright.
There are some companies/industries who have been on the ball for a couple of years, who embrace and engage with their user communities and of course there are still a few stalwarts who feel this kind of innovation is their enemy and must be stamped out at all costs - but they’ll just have to adapt or die.
commissioned a piece of research from (Centre for Research in Innovation Management) University of Brighton investigating the power of user-led innovation. They held a morning of talks and discussion about their findings at Plough Place and also invited some representatives of companies and online communities to talk about their experiences.
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