Interesting Stuff 2009-02-23
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳i Labs blog has written a neat rundown of ideas developed at the 'One Big Day' event they held recently. The prototypes put forward are products of the One in Ten scheme, which allows staff spend some of their workiing hours doing something a bit experimental.
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Martin Belam has about the Points of View message boards. Opinions, it seems, are deadlocked.
Silicon.com has a , who shares his thoughts on the iPlayer, the semantic web and the end of Project Kangaroo.
Meanwhile, has been introducing the next phase of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer. Broadcast Now reports:
[I]t synchronises iPlayer on all of a user's devices, such as PC, mobile phone and . This means that if you stop watching a show on your computer, you could continue watching it from exactly the same point on your mobile."
Second, the application allows users to select friends with whom they can share their iPlayer experience. The application replaces the usual iPlayer navigation at the top of the web page with three categories: Me, My Friends and Everyone."
Ian Forrester at says there won't be any bigger scale events like Mashed this year -- but that's not to say there won't be plenty going on. .
On the Backstage mailing list, . Tom Morris' Radio 4-loving mother failed to find a programme online, so he patched together a work-around allowing users to search for descriptions of shows.
Dave Lee is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet blog, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Online, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Future Media & Technology.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Feb 2009, Darren wrote:how do i get this new version of iPlayer? is it out yet?
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At 25th Feb 2009, Nick Reynolds wrote:No it's not out yet Darren. More details are in the article linked to.
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At 3rd Jun 2009, franklinbeech wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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