Re: [backstage] Would anyone use this?

2006-01-23 Thread Gavin Joyce
r > general news, cooking recipes, etc. > > Ian Forrester | BBC World Service [New Media Software Engineer] > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gavin Joyce > > Sent: 22 January 2006 23:36 >

[backstage] Would anyone use this?

2006-01-22 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi, I am considering launching a new news site next week which will use some of the main BBC news feeds. It will be similar in style and function to a number of web site which I have launched in the last week: http://www.dotnetkicks.com/ http://www.kick.ie/ http://www.javakicks.com/ (launched tod

Re: [backstage] New SMS Alert Service with backstage data

2005-07-25 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi Clair, I believe that I fixed this bug last week, it was due to angled brackets not being displayed in some phones properly. Did you receive the foreign characters today? I had changed the angled brackets to single quotes, so you should have received a message such as: Your validation code is

Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005

2005-07-20 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good hotel in London? I am traveling over on Saturday morning for the conference and returning Sunday afternoon, but have not been in London for many years. Thanks, Gavin www.groupsms.co.uk On 24/06/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[backstage] New SMS Alert Service with backstage data

2005-07-14 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi, We have been working hard on a SMS news alert service for backstage data for the past two months, and today I am pleased to announce the beta launch of http://www.groupsms.co.uk/ today. There are currently 280 news feeds from backstage available for use with the SMS alerts. You can create key

Re: [backstage] BBC Open Source website launches

2005-07-12 Thread Gavin Joyce
I am travelling over from Dublin to Open Tech. I am hoping to launch my backstage SMS project too. On 12/07/05, Josephine Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think there's anyone on this list who doesn't have at least one > blog: > http://fraser.typepad.com/moodle/ > > Is anyone going

Re: [backstage] BBC Open Source website launches

2005-07-12 Thread Gavin Joyce
Room for one more? http://weblogs.asp.net/gavinjoyce/archive/2005/07/12/419109.aspx On 12/07/05, Stoyan Stefanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you allow me to quote Dave Matthews (Band) -- "I did it, do you > think I've gone too far?" :) > > http://www.phpied.com/open-source-bbc-google/ > http

[backstage] Re: New beta SMS service being launched next week

2005-07-08 Thread Gavin Joyce
Thanks to everyone who has helped so far, this is very valuable testing to me. I have the following countried covered so far: UK Ireland Luxembourg Canada Argentina Anyone who can spare a few mins to help me test other countries, please send me a mail. Thanks, Gavin On 08/07/05, Gavin Joyce

[backstage] New beta SMS service being launched next week

2005-07-08 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi, I have been working away in the past months on a SMS alert service that allows the delivery of filtered content to mobile phones around the world. I will be launching the beta service next week and will give more details of the service then. In the mean time, I need to do some final testing o

Re: [backstage] Article IDs are unique?

2005-06-25 Thread Gavin Joyce
first was about a player called 'Gonzal' and the second is about Roddick struggling past Daniele Bracciali. I have since cleared my test database, but I follow up if I see this behaviour again. Thanks, Gavin On 25/06/05, mike chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/24/05,

[backstage] Article IDs are unique?

2005-06-24 Thread Gavin Joyce
Hi, Are the IDs of articles published on bbc unique per article without time limit? Or are the IDs reused with time. Earlier today an article was published with the following url and title: URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/tennis/4620079.stm ID: 4620079 Published: 24/06/2005 16:23:5

Re: [backstage] Charging for cost?

2005-06-06 Thread Gavin Joyce
, Gavin Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for following up on this. I look forward to hearing the outcome. > > Regards, > Gavin > > On 5/20/05, James Boardwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Gavin 'n all, > > > > W