Re: [backstage] attendin' Hackday

2007-05-21 Thread Ian Moss
Yeah, Some good news! The emaili just popped into my inbox to brighten up my day. Now all I need is a good idea... Any other confirmed attendees? Yeah all being well I'll be there. Im interested in event data, social networks, mapping, news, and photos. Im sure there's an idea somewhere in

Re: [backstage] RE: BBC Radio Player + Last.fm Yahoo! widget

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Moss
Sounds like an ace thing... I don't usually comment till I've tried, but would be good if before the songs were commited to your last fm account you could choose to rate them positive or negatively, and only commit the good stuff. I'm a music facist at heart and hate the thought of going out

Re: [backstage] hedging the weather

2006-09-25 Thread Ian Moss
hedging the weather barcamplondon featured weather averaging for four major suppliers. got a url for the demo ? ian http://alteris.co.uk - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] D.construct conference videos

2006-09-15 Thread Ian Moss
Particulary handy if you couldn't make it too :) Like the 'Joy of the API' guys talk so far. Quit motivating. Ian On 9/11/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recorded [1] as much as I could with my little digital camcorder from the d.construct conference [2]. The video quality is

Re: [backstage] Web API down?

2006-07-17 Thread Ian Moss
ahh another key requirement of web 2.0 ;) (a cynical comment. But I do actually think there's been some interested debate going on here, about what exactly it is) The server hosting the BBC Web API ( http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.html) seems to be unreachable.. at least

Re: [backstage] All streamable programmes

2006-05-16 Thread Ian Moss
Hi, Is there a list somewhere of all the programmes that are streamable ? i.e. I know working lunch is, and that's top, and the news sometimes is (although it's often yesterdays 10am news!) But I'm pretty sure Countryfile isn't, and wish it was (seperately; maybe a wishlist of streamable

Re: [backstage] BBC Jobs in Radio and Music Interactive

2006-05-07 Thread Ian Moss
All London jobs ? Is their likely to be anything cropping in the Manchester area in the foreseable ? Cheers, Ian Um - most of these jobs aren't viewable... :-( Cheers, Rich. On 5/5/06, Helen Pickford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there We in Radio and Music Interactive are recruiting

Re: [backstage] Best Mapping API

2006-03-29 Thread Ian Moss
Hi, (first post...big wave from Manchester) I think the hard part with the map data in the UK is that you need a Post Code to x/y(used in the google api) convertor. The UK post code data is all copyrighted/protected/owned. Unlike the US zip code data, which the geocoding APIs, like