RE: [backstage] Search API

2005-10-03 Thread Giovanni Guardalben
Sam, in the mean time(until BBC search api are available), you can use A9 (http://a9.com). Select the ALL BBC column, enter your search and you get your BBC news from all BBC RSS channels starting from April of this year. You can also syndicate your search results with A9 (just grab the

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Scott
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, James Mastros wrote: WHAT? I thought the compitition had almost 24 hours to go -- until oct 3rd at midnight, (23:59!) (rereads instructions) Blimey, I hope that's the case, I can add stuff to my prototype. Apologies if I made anyone panic - and thanks for the kind words

[backstage] RSS Sports Feeds

2005-10-03 Thread David Sargeant
Where is the correct place to report odd RSS behaviour for BBC Sport feeds? Cheers David - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive:

RE: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Ben Metcalfe
Just to confirm Graeme's spot on here, you've go up until midnight MONDAY (today) to get your entries in. if you have submitted something already don't worry - we will hold off judging until tomorrow, so feel free to spend the final day tweaking + tuning! Sorry for any confusion, Ben

[backstage] Developer jobs

2005-10-03 Thread Stephen Elson
A couple of developer jobs have opened up in BBC Factual Learning which may be of interest to those on the Backstage list: Senior Client Side Developer: https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/jobportal/search/vacancy.aspx?id=6011 Client Side Developer:

Re: [backstage] Developer jobs

2005-10-03 Thread Eric Casteleijn
A couple of developer jobs have opened up in BBC Factual Learning which may be of interest to those on the Backstage list: Senior Client Side Developer: https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/jobportal/search/vacancy.aspx?id=6011 Client Side Developer:

RE: [backstage] Developer jobs

2005-10-03 Thread Stephen Elson
Oops, sorry about that. Looks like these jobs have been marked as internal only, which they are not. I'll let you know when the Jobs site team have corrected the problem. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Casteleijn Sent: 03

[backstage] Charlotte - a talking TV guide

2005-10-03 Thread David Burden
OK just snuck my entry in under the wire. Charlotte is a natural language interface to the TVAnytime files, with avatar and text-to-speech attached. You can ask her when a programme is on, whats on tonight/tomorrow etc. Full details at http://www.daden.co.uk/chatbots/pages/000196.html

RE: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:27 +0100, Ben Metcalfe wrote: Just to confirm Graeme's spot on here, you've go up until midnight MONDAY (today) to get your entries in. if you have submitted something already don't worry - we will hold off judging until tomorrow, so feel free to spend the final day

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Thomas Scott
I just wanted to make sure -- I submitted my prototype to the web site last night, but it has not shown up on the web site -- at the bottom of the frontpage, on http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/, or http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/index.xml. Mine's not showed up either, so I think

Re: [backstage] Presenting the TVMap!

2005-10-03 Thread Gordon Joly
At 00:50 +0100 3/10/05, Graeme Mulvaney wrote: If you look on the site - it says to get entries in by Monday 3rd - but they'll accept things up until midnight. So I guess we've still got a day left ;) Whoops! Missed it! Back the API coal face,, :-) Gordo -- Think Feynman/