Hello Backstage faithful, Its a rarity on this list ;-) but heres a kinda product (or at least and idea) announcement
We're working on a new 10% time project over here at FM&T Audio and Music - and we thought we'd give you guys a super sneak preview. Theres a few of us involved here, including Yasser Rashid, Cathy Bartlet and Ramon Dodd. Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from across the web, and lives at... http://www.simoncross.com/music/radio1/ - its temporarily on a personal server as our infrastructure here at the BBC doesn't currently allow us to do this kind of thing :-( The plan for this is to eventually build a flash version which is full-screenable to provide a visual companion while listening in the office, or on the web etc. Future data sources we hope to build on include Musicbrainz, Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics,Yahoo Music and loads more. At the moment, we've just got as far as last.fm, flickr and the webcam, but its a start! Comments welcome! S - 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
