[backstage] The people behind the stage
Hi All, I thought it would be a good time to introduce both myself and Matthew to the Backstage list. First Matthew, Matthew re-joins the BBC from UBC Media, where he worked as the Interactive Content Manager - launching and selling, amongst other things Podcasts left right and centre! As such he developed a working commercial model for podcasting, and produced the podcasts for The Times, The Sun, The Telegraph and the major record labels, in fact his MySpace page still says he does (he likes the emails he get's from the girls I think). He's spoken at many conferences about the benefits of podcasting, and a more open community. Before that he was the Development Producer for BBC English Regions - launching the Where I Live sites, and before that the Client Side Developer for English Regions, primarily dealing with the launch and coding of the Travel News site, the England homepages and the BBC Local Radio sites. And myself, I've moved from the BBC World Service New Media team to Backstage where I was a software engineer mainly working with XML technologies like XSL. In the past I have launched RSS feeds across the World Service language sites, helped the World Service to start blogging and make sense of things like Semantic Mark-up, Podcasting, Social Media. My past includes working in the fields of information design, interaction design and even teaching at degree and post degree levels. I have a keen interest in transparency and openness across everything which technology touches. But I'm mostly known for all those social events in London like Geekdinners, BarCampLondon and hopefully Backstage with time. We have many great things planned for backstage and the wider BBC community. We aim to keep you all informed with our decisions and plans, so look out for announcements soon. Cheers, Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.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. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] ARIA, the BBC Web 2.0 Accessibility
Whilst recognising that the the BBC is still struggling to come to terms with WCAG1.0 it might be interesting to know what Ian, Matthew and others make of: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060926/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-role-20060926/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-state-20060926/ cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
In case there's any Second Lifers on this list, I thought I'd mention a little experiment I did last night - created a very simple BBC news ticker that cycles through the latest/newest 10 news items and displays the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which flavour of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers,Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
cool - got a screengrab handy? On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case there's any Second Lifers on this list, I thought I'd mention a little experiment I did last night - created a very simple BBC news ticker that cycles through the latest/newest 10 news items and displays the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13 It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which flavour of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers, Mario. - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
On 10/3/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cool - got a screengrab handy?Hi Tom - there's one linked from the post I mentioned, but here's a direct link: http://menti.net/bbcnewsticker.jpg What you can't see of course is the (currently a bit ugly) switching of the headlines every 10 seconds...
[backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight?
Title: Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight? Hi all, I feel a bit like the strange kid who joins the class half way through the year :-) As you know Ian and I are now at the helm of the good ship backstage, and we've got some pretty cool ideas (well we think they're cool but it's amazing what you can convince yourself of over a super large starbucks and a cup cake made entirely out of sugar but I digress). In the next week or so we're going to be launching another rather cool competition with some pretty funky prizes (if we can persuade the relevant manufactures to part with them early). But before we launch the comp we thought we'd post a couple of the api's that may be of use the first is one you've all seen before - the BBC Web API to our programme data http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html It's a nice way to consume the TV Anytime data and do some cool mash ups with it. The second api Ian will tell you all about - but it's new and you've not seen it before so stand by your beds. On a more personal note I must point out that you should ignore my personal site and blog they're both rather naff at the moment - no excuses past an argument with my hosting company and trying to move everything - which means I can't access it! But more news on my motorbike blog again soon. If you're interested in what I do outside of work check out http://londonbikers.com m Matthew Cashmore Development Producer bbc.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Cashmore.vcf BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Cashmore;Matthew FN:Matthew Cashmore ORG:;New Media Technology TITLE:Development Producer TEL;WORK;VOICE:- TEL;CELL;VOICE: TEL;PAGER;VOICE: ADR;WORK:;White City - Broadcast Centre LABEL;WORK:White City - Broadcast Centre EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:20060928T102100Z END:VCARD
RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language insecond life briefly. Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could link to the stream which would actually stream into Second life? Or maybe not? Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 03 October 2006 16:19To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life In case there's any Second Lifers on this list, I thought I'd mention a little experiment I did last night - created a very simple BBC news ticker that cycles through the latest/newest 10 news items and displays the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which "flavour" of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers,Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language insecond life briefly. Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could link to the stream which would actually stream into Second life? Or maybe not?Hi Ian,as I said, it's very basic... as there is still no way to display HTML as textures on a prim (a Second Life object), I use my own server (outside Second Life) to get the newest 10 headlines and create a .jpg for each headline. The object in Second Life uses the LSL (Linden scripting language) to make the http requests, and replace its texture with the updated media resource. Simple eh?Re. the AV stream, for streaming in Second Life it would have to be a format supported by Quicktime, which (unless I'm mistaken) the BBC feeds aren't?Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
cool - got a screengrab handy? Hi Tom - there's one linked from the post I mentioned, but here's a direct link: http://menti.net/bbcnewsticker.jpg Doh. I'll get my coat... ta! -t - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight?
Cool, I'm hoping the new APIs are going to include radio programme track listings!? Got any Indians on Londonbikers.com? Keith -- Original Message -- Subject: [backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight? Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:15:00 +0100 From: Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Reply-To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Hi all, I feel a bit like the strange kid who joins the class half way through the year :-) As you know Ian and I are now at the helm of the good ship backstage, and we've got some pretty cool ideas (well we think they're cool... but it's amazing what you can convince yourself of over a super large starbucks and a cup cake made entirely out of sugar... but I digress). In the next week or so we're going to be launching another rather cool competition... with some pretty funky prizes... (if we can persuade the relevant manufactures to part with them early). But before we launch the comp we thought we'd post a couple of the api's that may be of use... the first is one you've all seen before - the BBC Web API to our programme data http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html It's a nice way to consume the TV Anytime data and do some cool mash ups with it. The second api Ian will tell you all about - but it's new and you've not seen it before so stand by your beds. On a more personal note... I must point out that you should ignore my personal site and blog... they're both rather naff at the moment - no excuses past an argument with my hosting company and trying to move everything - which means I can't access it! But more news on my motorbike blog again soon If you're interested in what I do outside of work check out http://londonbikers.com m Matthew Cashmore Development Producer bbc.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Cashmore.vcf Attachment: Matthew Cashmore.vcf ?___ Don't miss the Autumn Ideal Home Show at Earls Court, London, from the 6th-15th October. Book online now at http://www.autumnidealhomeshow.co.uk and get two tickets for just £15.00! Plus get great home and garden tips at http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/homesgardens/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight?
I'll find out for you Keith... Indians.. Yes I think there are a couple... One's ridden by an elderly New Zealand chap ;-) m -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 October 2006 17:43 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight? Cool, I'm hoping the new APIs are going to include radio programme track listings!? Got any Indians on Londonbikers.com? Keith -- Original Message -- Subject: [backstage] Hello... And who knows what's on TV tonight? Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:15:00 +0100 From: Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Reply-To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Hi all, I feel a bit like the strange kid who joins the class half way through the year :-) As you know Ian and I are now at the helm of the good ship backstage, and we've got some pretty cool ideas (well we think they're cool... but it's amazing what you can convince yourself of over a super large starbucks and a cup cake made entirely out of sugar... but I digress). In the next week or so we're going to be launching another rather cool competition... with some pretty funky prizes... (if we can persuade the relevant manufactures to part with them early). But before we launch the comp we thought we'd post a couple of the api's that may be of use... the first is one you've all seen before - the BBC Web API to our programme data http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/index.html It's a nice way to consume the TV Anytime data and do some cool mash ups with it. The second api Ian will tell you all about - but it's new and you've not seen it before so stand by your beds. On a more personal note... I must point out that you should ignore my personal site and blog... they're both rather naff at the moment - no excuses past an argument with my hosting company and trying to move everything - which means I can't access it! But more news on my motorbike blog again soon If you're interested in what I do outside of work check out http://londonbikers.com m Matthew Cashmore Development Producer bbc.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Cashmore.vcf Attachment: Matthew Cashmore.vcf ?___ Don't miss the Autumn Ideal Home Show at Earls Court, London, from the 6th-15th October. Book online now at http://www.autumnidealhomeshow.co.uk and get two tickets for just £15.00! Plus get great home and garden tips at http://www.tiscali.co.uk/lifestyle/homesgardens/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.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. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language in second life briefly. Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could link to the stream which would actually stream into Second life? Or maybe not? Hi Ian, as I said, it's very basic... as there is still no way to display HTML as textures on a prim (a Second Life object), I use my own server (outside Second Life) to get the newest 10 headlines and create a .jpg for each headline. The object in Second Life uses the LSL (Linden scripting language) to make the http requests, and replace its texture with the updated media resource. Simple eh? Re. the AV stream, for streaming in Second Life it would have to be a format supported by Quicktime, which (unless I'm mistaken) the BBC feeds aren't? Mario. Only on the multicast trial (recent versions of QT support H264) http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/streams.html How does live video streaming work in Second life? Do you need to go via a proxy? There's also the odd news-related mp4 video downloads available as part of the podcast trial http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4977678.stm (not *exactly* Second Life fodder, but you never know.. there's always space for some highbrow amid all the pron and gambling) - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
On 10/3/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re. the AV stream, for streaming in Second Life it would have to be a format supported by Quicktime, which (unless I'm mistaken) the BBC feeds aren't? Only on the multicast trial (recent versions of QT support H264)http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/streams.htmlHow does live video streaming work in Second life? Do you need to go via a proxy?I guess the multicast is out of reach of mere mortals... :-)Streaming in SL streams directly to the Second Life client, no proxy involved. H264 would probably work, since SL pretty much uses the Quicktime Media Player. I'll volunteer to try it if I get access to the multicast.. Cheers,Mario.
