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

    Eleanor van Heyningen and Asha Knight explain the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's thinking on developments in in-car technology

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  2. Video Factory: Transcoding video for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer

    This usage pattern is ideally suited for delivery using elastic cloud compute so Video Factory has moved live processing into the cloud.

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  3. CBeebies apps team launches public beta group for Android users

    Later this year, we will be launching a new app, CBeebies Playtime Island. The availability of beta platforms, now means we can learn about our audience’s expectations at scale, building on our relationship with parents and children, to help us make better products for all.

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  4. Introducing ADA: Automated Data Architecture. A new way of navigating the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s programme archive

    The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has a wealth of permanently available programmes across a wide range of subjects, but they can sometimes prove hard to find unless you already know the programme title. ADA is a new project designed to find a way of pointing people to similar programmes.

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  5. Social Media at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ: Bridging the gap between audience and production

    I’m Rowan Kerek Robertson, editorial lead for Social Media, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Vision.Β  My job, along with a small team, is about helping to ensure that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s TV programmes and channels uses social media in ways which are as useful, entertaining and engaging as possible be it on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ OnlineΒ  likeΒ  the TV ...

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  6. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Playlister: exporting tracks

    We chose Handlebars as the template engine, loading the templates dynamically via AJAX. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Playlister Spotify App is composed of five templates (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Browse, Playlist, Your Tracks and Offline). All of them are loaded dynamically avoiding a long load time.

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  7. Round up: Goodbye!

    A quick summary of the best of the blog from the last 9 months as Eliza sadly bids us farewell.

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  8. College of Production round up: Access All Areas, radio visualisation

    Radio 1 uses online platforms to create radio visualisations. A film on what it takes to produce the visual chart - part of The Official Chart with Jameela Jamil looks at how the visual chart uses a mix of live cameras (controlled in a small gallery) and music videos broadcast on Radio 1.

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  9. Future Fiction: Drama meeting digital

    What does the Future of Drama look like?Β Find out more about Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Future Fiction and watch video clips from the event.

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  10. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music just got personal with new app launch

    The first version of a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music application has been released, creating a single port of call for all content under the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Music brand. This blog explains how the application, available on both iOS and Android, provides a personalised experience based on the user's music taste.

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  11. Testing Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer: reading XML, JSON response into Java

    This blog-post is based on my experience of testing in iPlayer Business Layer that is a RESTful API. Instead of telling the readers about the basic principles and mechanics of API testing, I want to talk about a very important aspect of automating API testing that is reading and verifying the re...

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  12. The Remote Generation

    Eloise and Moritz explain some of the challenges and benefits of remote working.

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