Re: [backstage] Google Wave

2009-10-09 Thread Billy Abbott
Luf Ball wrote: I would like a Google Wave invite. I would like a pony. -- http://billyabbott.co.uk You say tomato, I say EMACS - 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

Re: [backstage] Encryption of HD by the BBC - cont ...

2009-10-06 Thread Billy Abbott
Mo McRoberts wrote: I might be being dim, but I can’t see an angle to this where the rights holders actually get what they want (anything which even impedes pirates) without fundamentally altering the conceptual landscape of free-to-air receiving equipment in the UK. I've always assumed that

Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-30 Thread Billy Abbott
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Tim Dobson wrote: I suspect that specialist areas of journalism will remain - sailing magazines for instance won't stop employing people to write about new yachts and dinghies, but I suspect some of the more general publications will need to adapt their business model or

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

2009-01-16 Thread Billy Abbott
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Jim Tonge wrote: Oh, while I'm on a roll, any plans for a Wii/PS3-friendly interface ? la Youtube for Television? iPlayer with Wii-specific UI has existed for ages - or am I missing the point about Youtube for TV here? Sorry, was too busy looking for my accented ' ?

RE: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday

2008-09-25 Thread Billy Abbott
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Forrester wrote: Once again, a reason for the non-geeks to buy the Dream/G1/1st Gphone? Or maybe there isn't one and its truly a phone for geeks and geeks alone? As yet, as far as I can see, it is a phone for geeks alone. However, I suspect that this could well be

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alia Sheikh wrote: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ Not all that late, as far as I can see - nothing particularly new (I have a backstage tag cloud tshirt somewhere...) but a nice and simple way of playing with

Re: [backstage] Video recordings of the House of Commons on TheyWorkForYou.com

2008-06-10 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Andy wrote: Just tried it out. I did notice the text from Hansard was not actually the same as what was said, is this common? As it says in the bullet points to the right of the video and text: Hansard is not a verbatim transcript, so spoken words might differ slightly

Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii

2008-06-06 Thread Billy Abbott
I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking the settings to get them to work nicely. --billy On Fri, 6

Re: [backstage] An alternative iPlayer interface for the Wii

2008-06-06 Thread Billy Abbott
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Phil Wilson wrote: Billy Abbott wrote: I also had a lot of success in getting my Wii to be reliable by playing around with which wireless channel was being used. It sounded unlikely to me but seems to have worked. There's a load of pages out on the web about tweaking

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-10 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andy wrote: In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm Does anyone know if the BBC have something exclusive going with Nintendo or if there is a technical reason why this wouldn't work with the PS3? As far as I know the PS3

Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-09 Thread Billy Abbott
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Re: [backstage] iPlayer in Wii

2008-04-09 Thread Billy Abbott
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Andy wrote: In case anyone hasn't seen the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7338344.stm My officemate just asked me if it worked on the PS3, as it also runs flash 7. I suspect the answer is no, but that shouldn't be much work on the beeb's side. The thing

Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray

2008-02-27 Thread Billy Abbott
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard P Edwards wrote: I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two systems incompatible.. I found the Wikipedia pages on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD quite informative when I was trying to find out the answer to the same question a couple of weeks back:

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-28 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dave Crossland wrote: On 27/11/2007, Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is naieve to think that a choice of providers will have identical functionality. I wasn't clear - I meant common open APIs, ie. the same API with different vendors behind it. That way

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-27 Thread Billy Abbott
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Dave Crossland wrote: On 27/11/2007, Billy Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Noah Slater wrote: but what happens when That's the reason why having open APIs that multiple sites conform to strikes me as an excellent idea - if your provider of choice