Interesting Stuff 2008-06-25
The chart above is from the document ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Response To Ofcom's Second Public Service Broadcasting Review, Phase 1 [pdf], showing one of the differences in audio behaviour when TV is compared to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer:
Figures from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s own sites demonstrate the emerging power of gateways. These figures show that the iPlayer homepage is highly influential in driving the reach and usage of programmes, and this has led to programmes from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four breaking through into the top ten of non-linear viewing, whereas in the linear world ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ viewing is dominated by ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two.
There's an overlap here with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO Controller Roly Keating's speech, Time And Relative Dimensions In Space: The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Digital Strategy In A World Beyond Boundaries to the Broadcast Digital Channels Conference 2008 [as blogged below], which you can now re-read with all the snazzy slides:
Juliette Garside that "[t]he ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ wants to develop a technology that would enable video posted on the internet to be watched on television sets":
The Freeview-style platform would be jointly developed and marketed by public service broadcasters and internet service providers, and its technology licensed to set-top box manufacturers.
Viewers could then watch from the comfort of their sofas the shows available online and on demand from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s iPlayer, Channel 4's 4OD and ITV.com.
Our next chart is from Fabric Of Folly, a blog by the Beeb's Dan Taylor where he :
Whilst the statistical robustness of this data is clearly questionable, it nevertheless provides an interesting insight into the behaviours around some of the web's biggest properties (). Whilst similar data can be obtained (for a fee) from companies like , this is the first time - to my knowledge - that "Also visited" and "Also searched for" data has been made freely available in this way.
Michael Smethurst's post on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Labs blog about the decision to remove the hCalendar microformat from /programmes has stimulated .
A new blog on the block is the place for all things red button, Freeview, cable iPlayer, etc - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳i Labs [rss] :
This blog is where the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV Platforms Group write about what we're working on, what we've learnt, and show off some of our internal prototypes
, Ian Forrester gives some details of what's coming up chez Backstage, for those who missed the talk at Mashed:
- "The new Backstage website is now publicly available at as a beta. Please be gentle and bear in mind it needs a lot more work (I'm quite sick at the moment).
- We're attending and sometimes sponsoring a range of events including and . For Manchester, we're considering starting or supporting .
- The trial has been a success and we're adding more for next year. We may also start offering outside access for certain experimental projects.
- The is up and running. So expect some APIs coming soon, including a complete events API from PA Press.
- We working on new podcasts and videocasts, and hope to have some on .
- We're launching our openleaning and tv backstage some point soon.
- There will be a competition to redesign the logos, tshirts, etc.
- We have a new recruit called , who's starting in July; her main focus will be South/London, while I'll focus on North/Manchester."
And finally: ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer makes 's list of the twenty best things about the internet. Yay! But... ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Message Boards makes the . Boo!
Alan Connor is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 25th Jun 2008, gottago wrote:I have to say I think the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Message Boards look horrendous. Not very user-friendly at all. As far as I can see to actually reply to a thread you have to reply to the comment above which is pretty stupid. It's the one thing onlinethat the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s never been able to get right.
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