http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/guardian-open-platform
key quote hidden towards the end
The Guardian is positioning its Open Platform as a commercial
venture, requiring partners to carry its advertising as part of its
terms and conditions, while BBC Backstage states clearly that
The BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ is set to go HD in the next
month.
BBC Vision Director Jana Bennett let the news slip during a panel discussion
at the FT Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference. Expect a big
announcement with full details of the service in the next few days.
It's
Yes excellent news, lets hope the ISP's lay off on the bandwidth capping so we
can all download this stuff without worry.
I'm hoping its both streaming and download, but I honestly don't know.
Ian Forrester
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So I downloaded all the videos because I wanted to learn some lessons about how
and why they did things.
The subtitle format choice was very interesting. They could have easily have
just burned in the subtitles but they choose not to.
I'm still loving the fact its using BitTorrent for
I hope it works with the BBC iPlayer Desktop app that I use all the time
now. Shame it downloads only at streaming speeds at the moment.
2009/3/10 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk
Yes excellent news, lets hope the ISP's lay off on the bandwidth capping
so we can all download this stuff
That doesn't sound right, surely it should download much quicker?
Who's your ISP?
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So this is great news for all of us.
The more data for people to play with the better. I can spot some neat mashups
between BBC and Guardian data.
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Fearghas,
I thought about moving that paragraph up closer to the top so it was clear
that the content wasn't 'free as in beer'.
I would say that there are actually two parts to this launch, the content
API, which requires carrying ads, and the Data Store. There will still be
ad-free syndication
Formula One fans may be interested in this experimental motor racing data API:
http://ergast.com/mrd/
This is a personal project, not a BBC one, but I'm shamelessly plugging it here
because I'd really value your comments and suggestions.
The API provides result data from 2000 onwards, circuit
I think it's good Chris - lots of potential. Would be interesting to see key
race events highlighted, such as a timeline for the race, maybe then allowing
you to search for things like how many crashes at a particular corner.
Cheers,
::: John O'Donovan
::: Chief Architect, BBC FMT
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