Prototyping Weeknotes #31 (10/09/10)
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There's a flurry of RadioDNS activity at the beginning of the week, with Chris N presenting his slideshow work to our friends in A&M, along with an important fix to the RadioVIS server so that it pushes content to the user immediately as they tune into a station. There's also some operational bumps with that Chris, Duncan and I attend to.
Chris B is delving deep into uPnP & DLNA reading, as well as fixing our digital EPG service so that is now has a working Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ schedule feed. George is out of the office attending EU meetings for most of the week. We're also welcoming a new face to the office - Chris Ellington from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Learning has joined UX for a few weeks to work on a Second Screen prototype. This brings the critical mass of office Christophers to 4 - any more and we'll need to start allocating nicknames.
Tony, flush with success from winning RTS Young Technologist of the Year 2010 (congrats!), is off to this week, but not before getting our Emotiv headset working with the Universal Remote Control API on a set-top box.
Later in the week, we're all interested in and how that could change various games - it seems like real-time is moving a step further into the mainstream and becoming an expectation as well as a feature. Potent stuff. Sam's taken a bumper delivery of NextShare set-top-boxes for some live testing of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ streams over P2P-Next.
Chris N attempts to build some image marker tracking code on the Android platform, with mixed results - there's more work needed here as the development kits for most mobile platforms are still fairly new. By Friday he's worked around this and the code is compiling - it's now on to the murky world of Android camera APIs. I do more wiki admin and compiling some new documentation templates together. Chris G is marshalling various pieces of research & thinking on an imminent "big data" project for a position paper.
I catch up with Mark, who's getting his hands dirty on some audio stream fingerprinting research that could have some very cool applications for syncing second-screen services amongst other things, and we sketch out where we'll take the work initially. Then, to finish off the week it's over to Broadcasting House for one of our FM&T Town Hall meetings with Erik, where we get updates on general FM&T and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ strategy - should give us all plenty to think about over the weekend..