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  1. Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News content

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

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  2. 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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  3. Local Live: A better Birmingham & Black Country news index

    Our users have told us over time the reasons why they visit our local news indexes. The main areas they value are the good coverage of big local stories; the mixture of TV, Radio, Sport, Travel and Weather content; the variety of content from different news sources and our local knowledge.

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  4. Machine learning and editorial collaboration within the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

    Datalab team members explain how the best machine learning results will come from a multi-disciplined approach.

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  5. Feeling the weather: the future of the forecast?

    Cyrus Saihan explains how haptic technology is being used to help the audience actually feel weather conditions

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  6. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ+ & the Mobile Application Framework

    Our team of editorial staff working on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔpage were already identifying a broad range of diverse content across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, and with the recent and on-going work around personalising the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔpage using myΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ services, creating the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ+ app fitted naturally into this existing workflow.

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  7. Testing ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Connected Red Button

    How we test the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Connected Red Button service on smart TV devices.

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  8. Adding Series Record to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer downloads

    We’ve released a new version of our ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer Downloads app for Mac & PC, with the much requested Series Record feature. Series Record lets you subscribe to any ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV series, and have new episodes automatically downloaded to your computer as soon as they become available.

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  9. Raven: File based ingest for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News

    "A much bigger challenge than the move to HD." As broadcasters move from tape based delivery to file based working, Raven's original specification was a box to replace a tape deck in satellite vans allowing news crews out in the field to use file based ingest.

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  10. Interactive ebook: a CBeebies Christmas carol

    An interactive ebook is a completely new format with great potential for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, combining video, audio, text and images in a touch-screen tablet experience.

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  12. Audio Factory overview: update

    We have no plans to release the stream URLs because we know that we are going to have to change them at some point in the future and need to be able to manage the changes

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  13. Developing in the Open at /programmes

    Over the past year we have been rewriting bbc.co.uk/programmes and as part of this we have decided to open up our codebase to the public.

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  14. Olympics: Red Button

    The thinking that went into our Red Button Olympic service.

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  15. The Secret Life of the Cat: Interactive infographics

    Ever wondered what your cat gets up to once it leaves the cat flap? The Horizon programme, in collaboration with the Royal Veterinary College, set off to a Surrey village with GPS trackers and collar β€˜cat cams’ to find out. While the idea seemed light-hearted to begin with there was some seriou...

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  16. AI for the good of society

    Does AI have the potential to improve social mobility?

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  17. Try, Rate, Share: Innovation project ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Taster on highlights and future plans

    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Taster was designed to be a space to be experimental with new formats, talent and technology. Our intention was that Taster would be filled with ideas from all around the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and we wanted audiences to come and Try, Rate and Share our new projects.

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  18. Building the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds mobile app

    Stuart Sharpe explains how the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds app was built.

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  19. #newsHACK II - the results are in

    Multidiscipline teams made up of Journalists, Developers and Designers brainstormed ideas to address the competition theme: The Future of News Curation. They then built prototypes, or β€œhacks”, to demonstrate their ideas.

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