On 3/27/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26/03/07, Jeremy Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
0.4% of users at the time used a Linux operating system ;)
That's not entirely true is it?
Please do not try to mislead people.
What is more likely is:
0.4% of users WHERE DETECTED AS using a Linux
I'll ignore your rant about the stats - but add that these numbers are
probably generated by some pretty sophisticated 3rd part software that
the BBC employs. I highly doubt they just look for Linux in the UA
string. I'm sure Jem will be replying.
the site is target at Windows users
Completely
1) the BBC stats are biased, the site is target at Windows
users and
on certain pages blocks users of other OSes
That's not my experience of it; my usual browser is Firefox
on Gentoo Linux, and I can't recall the last time I was
blocked from content on bbc.co.uk.
Ubuntu user with
On 28/03/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and will result
in thousands of emails asking why IE, and it's box model, has messed up
the pretty design.
I wish this happened were I work! If only users would blame the IE
rendering engine (rather than the site or designers) everything
For more info on this live subtitling system, have a look at this paper:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp065.shtml
The live re-speaking subtitling system was developed at BBC Research (
Development) down at Kingswood Warren.
Cheers,
Andrew
BBC Research
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:25:49PM
If you read Martin Belam (hello Martin!) on the methods he used to derive these
figures, you'll note that he's extremely thorough in his data analysis.
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php I think you should read
a little levity in to Jem's use of a grin after the Linux
These stats are very interesting (especially BlackBerry 0.43%), and the use
of a cookie (with the provisos listed at the bottom of the page) to track
'users' provides a good insight.
Is it possible that these stats could be provided automatically, say on a
daily basis so it can be used to track
Gruß Gott - if I wasn't being worked like a dog on the last three days
of my contract here in Austria I would have responded at some length
already, but most of the points I would have made appear to have been
covered already... ;-)
I can give you off hand the user agent figures for all the Sony
On 28/03/07, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect you already know this, and perhaps your question is
rhetorical. I'll answer it anyhow :-). Some browsers had different
interpretations of the standards and render pages radically differently
from each other. Testing to the
They are working on it...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx (last 3 paras).
Molly (a visitor around here every so often [1]) is on the case from the
inside...
http://weblogs.asp.net/molly/
J
[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoncartwright/tags/molly/
Two points I want to make
1) Still impossible to find video content that the BBC produces, there have
been lots irrespective of copyright.
How to find this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/videonation/videos/public_speaking.shtml
So I can add it to this
Some video search stuff was announced the other day. Apparently its
going to be used on CBBC CBeebies to start with...
http://www.google.com/search?q=ibm+video+search+cbeebies
J
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On 21/02/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad you like it the idea. What Radio 4 updates would you find
interesting?
The Shipping Forecast
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Andy Roberts
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To
On 3/28/07, Andy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21/02/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad you like it the idea. What Radio 4 updates would you find
interesting?
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that
Is it possible that these stats could be provided
automatically, say on a daily basis so it can be used to
track the use of browsers and platforms.
No.
Slightly longer answer - the stats system is problematic, and doesn't
provide easy ways to route this kind of thing externally. It's under
As many of you may have already heard through the geek grape vine (GGV 2.0) ;-)
The BBC and Yahoo! are planning to get together to hold 48 hours of hacking
madness this summer.
Over the weekend of June 16th and 17th we plan to see over 400 developers and
designers from all over Europe heading
yes! for some of us this has been a very hard secret to keep over the
last few months...
Its going to be a fantastic event, in a fantastic venue, so huge thanks
to Matt for working to make it happen.
looking forward to seeing lots of you there...
matt
___
Matt
Is now going to have to avidly watch this list like a hawk for mention
of tickets becoming available in order to pounce.
Good job Matt and everyone else involved if it turns out as good as it sounds.
G
On 28/03/07, Matt Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes! for some of us this has been a
Mario Menti wrote:
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that lets you take any RSS feed and post
its updates to twitter. So if anyone here wants specific BBC twitter
updates, as long as there's a feed for it, you should be able
On 3/28/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario Menti wrote:
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that lets you take any RSS feed and
post
its updates to twitter. So if anyone here wants specific BBC twitter
What is more likely is:
0.4% of users WHERE DETECTED AS using a Linux operating system AT THE
TIME THEY VISITED THE BBC SITE.
Cam we assume that global stats (of random websites) show a higher
number of Linux web clients that this, such as wget and telnet
www.example.com 80?
YMMV,
Gordo
Hello All,
I've finally gotten around to having a play with the weather RSS feeds and I
notice that one of the feed's trips up my xml parser.
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/3374.xml - has an illegal
character in the name the in the Elephant Castle.
I'm skipping it for now
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