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Nick Reynolds Nick Reynolds | 16:03 UK time, Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Back in October it was announced that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage was to close.

Well that's happening today. But not without a celebration of Backstage's history.

Jemima Kiss on the Guardian's PDA blog: :

Originally conceived as a way of 'getting the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s data out', it was based around the Backstage website which offered a range of APIs for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ services and content, documentation about experimental projects and later organised large-scale hack events, where external developers and designers would intensively code and compete to build yet more experimental tools.

There's an ebook "Hacking The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳: A Backstage Retrospective" :

This ebook is a snapshot of some of the projects and events that Backstage was involved in, from its launch at Open Tech 2005, through the triumph of Hack Day 2007 and the shot-for-web R&DTV, to current visualisation project We take a diversion to Bangladesh to see how a Backstage hacker helped the World Service keep reporting through the horrendous Cyclone Sidr, and look at the impact of the 'playground' servers, used inside the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳.
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage ebook cover

Front cover of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage ebook. Design by Nicola Rowlands

Ian Forrester of the Backstage team . As you'd expect the book is mentioned and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Research and Development blog.


And finally on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage blog itself:

"It's been an amazing five years but finally the servers are powering down on the backstage.bbc.co.uk (to be official) project.The legacy of backstage will live on..."

Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Online

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