Interesting Stuff 2008-08-18
Thilo Horstmann at The Twibble Blog about Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sport's Matt Slater using ("a location aware twitter client for smartphones") in Beijing:
Matt of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sport is using twibble mobile to tweet the latests and greatest of the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. He is even sending his GPS coordinates along with his tweets!
Even more impressive are Matt's tweets in Google Earth. Add 'https://api.twibble.de/statuses/user_timeline/bbcsport_matt.kml' as a network link and click on a tweet to fly to China.
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Back in Blighty, Jon Jacob is giving the Proms the online video treatment on the Beeb site and at YouTube:
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Olivier Amato considers the latest news from Erik and Anthony and :
We should eventually be able to download programmes in high-definition, at which point the distinction between broadcast and broadband video will be irrelevant as far as the user is concerned.
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In about watching iPlayer on broadband, Alison Craighead suggests the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hub issues may be a thing of the past:
So all seems well with iplayer and HH 1.5 now after a couple of days watching olympics etc in Firefox and Safari OS X 10.4.11 and intel mac book pro.
Thank goodness...
It would be great to get a post on what the problem was.
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Over on the , FOAF fan has been at the bbc.co.uk/music data to generate "music preference profile based on a list of artists", would like to see others developing the hack, and has some questions:
Mashed remote contrib: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ music genres meet last.fm (meets OAuth)
I'd like to do some more with this, but the license terms aren't specified. Can it be used commercially? Is attribution required? Does it inherit any constraints from MusicBrainz? Is use in UK vs rest-of-world treated the same, etc etc.
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various luminaries for their impressions of a Google World, including Beeb documentary-maker Adam Curtis and our former head honcho Ashley Highfield, who says [mildly spicy language ahead - Eds]:
The future's going to be in layering on top of Google more understanding of the context of the user and the question - the "semantic web", without getting too cyberbollocks about the whole thing.
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While The Telegraph's Michael Deacon of on iPlayer, Janet Silvera at The Jamaica Gleaner ex-pat Jamaicans hungry for coverage: "some have gotten fancy by using hacker techniques to 'break' into Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ video".
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If you want to see images of transmitters in Iceland or hear about the days when Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ employees used Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Micros as their personal computers, take a trip to 625-line land in David Birt's reminiscenes at :
I had found in industry something of a culture of mistrust. Engineers were useful to have "on tap", as long as they weren't "on top", and were reminded of their lowly station. Let me give an example.
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If you're already for the and your key criterion is a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ connection, then David Dunkley Gyimah, formerly of this parish, is talking video journalism: "ex-Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ David talks technique, workflow, and swift turnaround factual feature-making" and of is describing "how Six To Start worked with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and to create an online experience for [Spooks]".
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And it's goodbye to and , both of whom have blogged about leaving the Beeb. Toodle, and moreover, pip.
Alan Connor is co-editor, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 19th Aug 2008, dennisjunior1 wrote:Good bye to Karen Loasby and Matthew Cashmore!
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At 13th Jun 2009, U14033173 wrote:Thank you for the great post...
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