Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread neil
Hi Davy [and all others who have posted comments]. We're going to tweak it based on this round of feedback, and hopefully then build a production version for Nations and Regions. At that point the code should be ironed-out and ready for general release. Word from the BBC is that they plan

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread O
Would that be useful? Yes, much much more so. If I can't use Google Reader to read something, I don't read it, and I suspect I'd not that abnormal.

RE: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Daniel
I'm not seeing a replacement of items when I move the slider just a reduction. Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Maxthon 1.6.3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of neil Sent: 08 January 2008 15:17 To: backstage-developer@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject:

RE: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Ian Forrester
Very cool, still waiting for it to fill my screen but thanks for the cool prototype. Would be cool to build this in SVG me thinks. Less talk and more prototypes people... Your slightly wrong about the infrastructure (should be discussed on the super secret internal list really but hey were all

Re: [backstage] Music in TV programs

2008-01-10 Thread Gary Kirk
Often it may be library music or specially composed for the programme. For example the soundtrack to The Apprentice was released in June last year just before the third series ended. On 10/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Not sure if this is the place for this question

Re: [backstage] Music in TV programs

2008-01-10 Thread Phil Wilson
There have been quite a few times when I have some music played and would love to be able to buy it. Its not too bad when its pop or rock because I can always google the Lyrics but when its a classical piece that can be a struggle. Personally I'm waiting for the time when we can pause a

Re: [backstage] Music in TV programs

2008-01-10 Thread Matt Barber
Hi, I once wrote to ITV requesting some music during one of their programmes, who forwarded me to the program controller who was able to help further. The BBC's website suggests you try the Points of View messageboard, saying: '...for example, they may be able to instantly identify a piece of

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Deutsch
Ooh, very nice work, I like it! It works pretty seamlessly here on my work PC - except the work proxy has prevented the last.fm images from loading, because that site's blocked. I did consider (but didn't quite get around to making) something similar for my last office, where we were big 6 Music

Re: [backstage] Music in TV programs

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew Somerville
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the BBC or any broadcaster for that matter publish the music that is played during programs. Some programmes do, e.g. Coast has a detailed guide, such as: http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/faq/series3_prog1_music.shtml Which is great. Others, such as the Culture

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 09/01/2008, Simon Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from across the web, and lives at... http://www.simoncross.com/music/radio1/ Very cool! The plan for this is to eventually build a flash version which is full-screenable to

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Cross
Hi Dave, Good comments. We've just updated it so it now works for Radio 1, Radio 2, 6Music and 1Xtra. Nice idea about generating a Flash from HTML version. Will look into. We're doing some more work around 'what happens when nothing is playing'. At present we have 3 modes - playing (we know

RE: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Ian Forrester
Don't feel like you need to Retire yours because of Simon's, its still inspiring and the visual style is very different. cheers Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email:

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10/01/2008, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very similar to something I've already done http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ It isn't as polished as the one you're producing, and since you are producing one I'll probably retire mine in a few weeks! I like yours too and it would be

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 Now Playing web data prototype

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Riley
Thanks, I might just keep it going then! Chris On 10/01/2008, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/2008, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very similar to something I've already done http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ It isn't as polished as the one you're producing,

RE: [backstage] Music in TV programs

2008-01-10 Thread Brendan Quinn
Hi Catherine, I know that the team behind /programmes is trying to dig up as much information as they can to add to programme pages, and they have found some info around incidental music, I believe with the people who answer emails/phone calls from license payers. They are currently doing the

Re: [backstage] Identity/trust/reputation project savingtheinternetwithhate.com

2008-01-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 09/01/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silverlight take-up has been poor; Flash seems widespread but limited by its proprietary nature; XUL+etc is free but uptake also poor. Could Gnash blind-side the entire Web stack? Surely Gnash is just sitting on top of the existing

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 09/01/2008, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B. The iPlayer should stream over an open, not a proprietary protocol Getting the Gnash RTMP library into mplayer and libcurl ought to solve this from the software freedom community side. Gnash seems to be the most serious and immediate