Interesting Stuff 2008-10-20
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ tech boss Erik Huggers gave a at about "the challenges facing broadcasters as the pace of change accelerates, and how they must evolve to ensure a consistent experience across all platforms - without compromising quality."
Over at the , there's a :
In the context of MIPCOM 2008's Broadband Video Summit, Erik Huggers, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s director of future media and technology, spoke to journalist Kate Bukley. He notably revealed a kids' iPlayer was in the pipeline.
On this subject, the Guardian's that the interview adds little to another Erik interview - .
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On the 17 Oct edition of Radio 4's Feedback, Roger Boulton says:
It's still the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s most popular digital station, but have you been struggling with Radio 7's redesigned website? Some of Feedback's correspondents have and we put their complaints to Radio 7's interactive editor.
The programme is here in iPlayer.
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, a user of the Freedom Of Information site , has had a [] to her :
Based on the precedent set by your of the cost of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Action Network (see link below), please send me the annual cost of the recently-closed ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Holiday website from 2003 onwards.
FoI fans can get more ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ responses regarding "the status of the Creative Archive Licence" [ | ].
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Vision multiplatform exec Dan Taylor about programme sites:
As , my job requires me to have an overview of the whole of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Vision's online portfolio. Until recently, my record of new site launches comprised a TextEdit document on my laptop (edited on a daily basis) and an Excel spreadsheet on a shared drive (updated, er, less frequently). A couple of weeks back I decided that a far better tool for maintaining and sharing this information would be .
And so [] is now in ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog's .
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A post at calls Ollie Williams' a ; Ollie explains all at the Olympics Blog:
It's clever stuff, and it allows us to tell the story of events in a complex, live, graphic environment for the first time. In the future, mobile technology like this could help us cover big sporting events (for example, Wimbledon or the Open golf) in new ways.
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Along with geo-located Twitter updates on the in August (read more about that map here), this map marks the debut for this in ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport's coverage.
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It remains very much a developing technology, and isn't 100% reliable. If you've ever used satellite navigation devices in your car, and found yourself frantically pointing upwards when it suggests it "cannot locate satellite", you'll know what I mean.
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Hot new "Use Our Stuff To Build Your Stuff" action over at 's : presents ("the idea is for it to be a modified "Have Your Say", allowing users to comment on all ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ news items (emphasis on 'all')") and Andy of ("making the unmissable, browsable") fame :
Bereft of any real ideas I asked myself "if you took all the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV shows that are currently on iPlayer and plotted them on a map would it be any use what so ever?"
The result:
Internet Blog readers will doubtless also be wanting to read the thread .
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From the Partnerships Which Rhyme Dept, a "joint press release from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and BSkyB":
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and Sky have announced that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer can now be accessed via Sky Player, Sky's online TV service.
The new version of Sky Player includes a series of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ branded sections, with listings information and links to all TV programmes on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer service.
Sky Player, which offers users access to live and on-demand content from a range of channel providers, will now also offer access to content from all ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ television channels.
And staying with telly-not-(necessarily)-on-the-telly, Robert Andrews at asks Ashley Highfield, formerly of this parish about (which is looking at a ) and what he's been doing since leaving the Beeb, given the Competition Commission's interest:
Highfield jokingly told me: "I've brought my golf handicap down to eight." In seriousness, he's been "making the case", working with the regulator: "I spent the day with the Competition Commission yesterday, going through the proposal." Despite the holding pattern, "with the Competition Commission's blessing we, are building the offering... and we expect to have a closed beta around Christmas time... they don't want the regulatory procedure to hold up innovation."
Combining Freeview with HD, Mark Sweeney writes a Guardian piece headlined :
Football fans in some areas of the UK will be able to watch the 2010 World Cup in high definition on Freeview after announced that , and the will launch channels next year.
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The media regulator today revealed the results of a competitive tender process to launch the first three HD channels in "late autumn" next year, with a fourth expected to launch by 2010.
You can at the .
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At the time of typing, 544 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ employees are using , a workplace Twitter-like service.
Our blogger-in-residence Steve Bowbrick a recent surge of signups to the head of FM&T Erik Huggers using the service; James Cridland, the Audio & Music FM&T boss, ("I can talk about stuff we're doing without worrying whether I'm irritating anyone outside the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ with my talk of HWH, W12, BC5 D2 M1, etc etc. It's rather fine."); 's Ian Forrester "where's the API, people? Come on, this is becoming unacceptable already".
And over on her , Innovation Executive Lucy Hooberman puts all this Yammering into context, - for example, on personal blogs:
In the past you would have said the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ really communicates what it is about to the public only via its programmes as well as via press releases, annual reports, consultations and complaints the historic tools of corporate communications.
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But now many staff on official blogs and personal blogs offer additional insight into what is going on behind the scenes in terms of how we do our jobs, how the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ works, how we make decisions and importantly who we are. That's incredibly important for collaborations and partnerships of any kind - knowing who you are doing business with, or talking to and being able to talk to them creates a virtual circle of information leading to understanding and participation being able to be used effectively
And, in the interests of balance, if you want to see what people are about the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s use of Yammer, .
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Finally, over in the Commons, MP (Shadow Minister, Culture, Media & Sport; Liberal Democrat) debating the [iPlayer]:
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website is the most trusted in the world for news and current affairs programmes that are authoritative, accurate and, above all, impartial.
Nice to see it on the permanent record.
Alan Connor is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog.
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