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  1. Inside No.9: How we made The Inventors

    We set out to work with colleagues in Future Media, and the digital agency Kanoti to explore digital storytelling by creating an extra online episode for the fantastic new series from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith "Inside No. 9" which has just started airing on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two.

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  2. Â鶹ԼÅÄ Online Briefing Winter 2014: Meeting Audience Needs in a Digital World

    We recently conducted research around a topic we labelled ‘Digital Needs’ – exploring the various ways and reasons that people use the internet and how this differs between different demographic segments.

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  3. Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of Â鶹ԼÅÄ News content

    Abdallah al-Salmi explains the reasoning behind making the Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service news website available on the Tor Network.

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  4. Philip 21 - an interactive story exploring race, love and modern Britain

    An object-based media experience - a story of a date with a young black man, turned into an introspective examination of race, love and modern Britain. Here are the techniques and mechanics underpinning this and other branching narrative experiences, examining how they keep audiences engaged.

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  5. The future of in car listening: opportunities and choices

    Eleanor van Heyningen and Asha Knight explain the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's thinking on developments in in-car technology

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  6. Linked data: new ontologies website

    bbc.co.uk/ontologies is a human friendly view of the data models in the Linked Data Platform and is meant to give a comprehensive understanding of which ontologies the Â鶹ԼÅÄ uses, why and how.

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  7. New interactive quiz format pits players against stars

    We wanted to build a great game that has all the play-along fun of a traditional TV quiz show but with a modern twist; the face-to-face, personal filming style of a YouTube vlog, the shareability of a Buzzfeed quiz and the interactive rather than passive experience of an app

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  8. Connected Studio: One Planet

    Using digital technologies and experience to immerse audiences deeper into natural arenas, heightening our audience’s emotional connection to our planet & the ingenious animals we share it with.

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  9. Building the Computer Literacy Project archive

    Andy Armstrong gives an insight into how he built an archive of the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's home computing TV programmes and software from the 1980s.

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  10. Genome: behind the scenes

    The web site is hosted on Linux servers. We have database servers running MySQL and Sphinx Search and application servers which run Apache and a web application written in Perl using Dancer and Template Toolkit. In front of the application servers a layer of Varnish application cache servers hel...

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  11. What's on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Red Button: 12-19 January 2013

    Here's a breakdown of what we've got on the Red Button this week. To stay updated on everything Red Button follow us on Twitter or visit bbc.co.uk/redbutton. Winterwatch Mountain Hare camouflaged against the winter snow The Winterwatch webcams return, live from Aigas in the Scottis...

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  12. Search Engine Optimisation in Â鶹ԼÅÄ News

    This is the third and final in a series of posts about Search Engine Optimisation, following Duncan Bloor and Oliver Bartlett writing about optimising Knowledge and Learning websites. Headline-writing is a journalistic skill that provokes strong feelings - and of course it is meant to. A sub...

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  13. Loudness measurement: Improving sound for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ and other broadcasters

    I’m Ian Astbury, a Senior Investigations Engineer in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Technology Team. In my last blog on audio and music technology at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ I mentioned loudness measurement. I wanted to cover this in more detail and also to tell you more about how we are working with other broadcasters on a co...

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  14. Vote 2013: the first step towards connected politics

    The Â鶹ԼÅÄ is investing in its online political coverage to meet the challenges of the next four years. We took the first step on this journey in May, with this year’s local elections service called Vote 2013, overhaulin gour technology, and introducing responsive design.

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  15. Building connected communities at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    Our vision is to build a community of architects & technology strategists to support transformational change across the Â鶹ԼÅÄ. The focus of TS&A is to lead & shape the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s technology strategy & digital transformation agenda.

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  16. Â鶹ԼÅÄ UX&D’s new 'GEL' design website goes live

    The first Â鶹ԼÅÄ web page was published in 1997. Within ten years we had over four hundred websites, all designed differently. Such entropy was unsustainable and confused our users. Hence the introduction of GEL, a shared design framework which standardised our core interaction patterns.

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  17. Â鶹ԼÅÄ Online Briefing Winter 2014: Q&A

    In this last video speakers from each of the day’s sessions took to the stage to respond to questions from the audience

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  18. Digital Glastonbury: From Stage to Smartphone

    This year you'll be able to see more of Glasto than ever before on whatever device you like, the first truly digital Glastonbury. We're beaming six stages of live music back from Glastonbury and distributing on mobiles, tablets, computers, and via the Connected Red Button so you can watch it li...

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  19. Privacy by design

    Some of the technical challenges around providing data privacy options.

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