Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread margaret
Here's the link for registration: http://wealthofnetworks.eventbrite.com/ Hope you can join us Sam, it's shaping up to be a good event! cheers, Margaret Quoting Sam Mbale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there Thanks for the invite. Where is the link for registration? rgds On Mon, Jul 21,

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread Sam Mbale
Hello there Thanks for the invite. Where is the link for registration? rgds On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Margaret Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Backstagers I'd like to get the Wealth of Networks event on your radar, coming up this week Thursday at Imperial College. It's

[backstage] Freeing up Postcodes, etc

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Loosemore
Sadly, the BBC's intentions to release it in-house geo-location API was long ago stymied by various licencing nightmares (It's been 'coming soon' since May 2005 http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=msy ) However, good news for those who fancy playing with postcodes, addresses and

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread Fearghas McKay
Margaret On 22 Jul 2008, at 10:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the link for registration: http://wealthofnetworks.eventbrite.com/ Hope you can join us Sam, it's shaping up to be a good event! Are there opportunities for remote participation ? Seeing as it is meant to be part of a

Re: [backstage] Freeing up Postcodes, etc

2008-07-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
Why do they have to POST it to you? 2008/7/22 Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sadly, the BBC's intentions to release it in-house geo-location API was long ago stymied by various licencing nightmares (It's been 'coming soon' since May 2005 http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/PostcoderApI?v=msy

RE: [backstage] Freeing up Postcodes, etc

2008-07-22 Thread Brendan Quinn
it's royal mail... they have to keep themselves in business somehow! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 22 July 2008 13:17 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Freeing up Postcodes, etc Why

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread Fearghas McKay
Margaret On 22 Jul 2008, at 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would have been a really good idea - especially as it is meant to cover the nation - but I'm afraid that we have nothing set up for it. Perhaps for the next event? I will be twittering, as I suspect others will as well, so

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread margaret
Good point about Qik being closed loop. We were looking into setting up a Backchannel at one stage - let me see where we are with that, and I'll pass on the link. Also feel free to e-mail me or DM Wealthofnetwork on Twitter with any questions that you have and I'll get them asked... Quoting

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread margaret
That would have been a really good idea - especially as it is meant to cover the nation - but I'm afraid that we have nothing set up for it. I will be twittering, as I suspect others will as well, so be sure to follow #wealthofnetworks ; and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some Qik coverage

[backstage] TV Feeds

2008-07-22 Thread Adam
Hi, Could someone give the TV feeds server a kick as i've just noticed that there hasn't been an update of TV Anytime feeds since 18-Jul-2008 10:08:27 and my site has run out of listings info :-( Thanks Adam - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Wealth of Networks event, next Thursday at Imperial College

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 22/07/2008, Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qik is a closed invite only system so doesn't really allow for participation by those outside the closed loop. s/is/was - Qik is now in public beta. http://qik.com/blog/195/qik-enters-public-beta -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] TV Feeds

2008-07-22 Thread Brian Butterworth
Adam, I think that the programmes feeds are now kept up-to-date instead: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2008/07/09.xml etc... 2008/7/22 Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Could someone give the TV feeds server a kick as i've just noticed that there hasn't been an update

Re: [backstage] TV Feeds

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew McParland
Adam, Server kicked! Brian is right that moving forward getting data from /programmes is probably a better idea as this is a supported BBC service rather than our temporary (ahem), experimental TV-Anytime file service and API. Internally we're looking at using /programmes, and the data

Re: [backstage] TV Feeds

2008-07-22 Thread Adam Leach
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:21 +0100, Andrew McParland wrote: Adam, Server kicked! Thanks Brian is right that moving forward getting data from /programmes is probably a better idea as this is a supported BBC service rather than our temporary (ahem), experimental TV-Anytime file service

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software talk: Ian Forrester, BBC Backstage - 22nd July

2008-07-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Quick reminder to people in and around Manchester... This is tonight... Tim Dobson wrote: Ian seems to be getting to know Manchester! :) I hope that some of you can make it! Tim -- Forwarded message -- From: Lucy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/7/11 Subject:

Re: [backstage] Dailysnooze - Vista Gadgets - Homepage

2008-07-22 Thread Mr I Forrester
Great stuff Fraser. If I had a start page, I would use it. Cheers, posted on the backstage prototypes now [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For the past 6 or 7 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20030711135006/dailysnooze.com/en/) I have run http://www.dailysnooze.com - mainly because I wanted