something strange going on with this alert data. Have you stopped
supporting this? If so, is there an alternative? The bbcbreaking twitter bot
is the most popular of my BBC twitter bots (nearly 100,000 followers), so
would be a shame to abandon it.
Mario.
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Mario
Hi there,
I'm using the breaking news XML at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/services/desktop_alerts/xml/ukfs/alert_data.xmlfor
the
http://twitter.com/bbcbreaking twitter bot. Over the last few days some odd
things appear to have happened - it either changed the breaking news item
back and
See also this...
http://lolinator.com/lol/news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/default.stm
On Jan 24, 2008 10:45 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
That's the best mashup since the last 2Many DJs set I heard.
On 23/01/2008, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably posted
Hi Rich,
nice one.. just a couple of points I found when playing around with it:
- adding a programme to Google Calendar doesn't seem to work in FF (on Win
and OSX), I just get the autorization required alert, but the rest of the
page is blank. IE7 shows the login to google calendar button, and
On 9/11/07, Sean Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Afternoon.
Anyone here using this at the moment? I've only started to venture into
it after having been mightily pleased with their S3 stroage system.
I've been running an instance for a couple of months, mainly running
IronPython via Mono,
On 7/5/07, Flynn, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if I missed any announcement - will Backstage be continuing the TV
and Radio schedules in TVAnyTime XML format? Last update was June 21... As
screen scraping the web site is illegal, this is the only option available
to many of us to get
On 6/13/07, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
Davy - was trying to show someone mood news - has it gone?
Kim - try .co.uk ..
I think the original point of this thread has been lost a bit, which was
about the fact that there aren't enough sites using OpenID as a consumer (
i.e. offering log in using your OpenID), rather than ways to run your own
OpenID server (of which there are countless).
I think I like the idea of
Just in case it's of interest, bitty browser (http://www.bitty.com) is handy
for embedding cut-down web sites in personal homepages like iGoogle. E.g.
you could make it open the mobile version of the BBC news (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm), and have a nice BBC
news
It seems that iGoogle sorts the feed by pubDate, so the editorial order in
the original feed is lost. Incidentally, for me
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm show exactly the same
order, it's only when
http://tbites.com/2007/05/cridland-heads-to-beeb
Congrats James!
On 3/29/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've looked at Twitter and I can see the usefulness, but I can't find a
Google/Vista gadget for it... Have I missed it, or do I need to get
coding?
I think you'll find what you want here: http://twitter.pbwiki.com
Lists both a Vista
On 3/28/07, Andy Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21/02/07, Tristan Ferne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad you like it the idea. What Radio 4 updates would you find
interesting?
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that
On 3/28/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario Menti wrote:
I hope you don't mind a little self-promotion, but I recently set up
http://twitterfeed.com - a service that lets you take any RSS feed and
post
its updates to twitter. So if anyone here wants specific BBC twitter
updates
On 2/28/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The claim is partly misleading because the word loss suggests events of
a very different nature--events in which something they have is taken away
from them. For example, if the store's stock of DVDs were burned, or if the
money in the till
On 2/8/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
excess traffic = a very nice problem to have, obviously!
Well, at least _some_ traffic flowing today :-)
On 1/8/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mario you are a god of IM hacking!
Very cool!
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965
For those who think the BBC frontpage feed is a little chatty (to put it
mildly) for twitter, I just added a number of individual twitter bots for
On 1/10/07, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
For those who think the BBC frontpage feed is a little chatty (to put it
mildly) for twitter, I just added a number of individual twitter bots for
some of the more specific BBC news feeds: http://menti.net/?p=89
Cheers,
Mario.
Just noticed
One of the Twitterati amongst us: just add/follow bbcnews to get BBC news
updates in Twitter
More info here: http://menti.net/?p=85
Experimental as usual... feedback welcome!
Cheers,
Mario.
On 12/1/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a confirmed place, but can't make it.
Mario would you like my space? Sure I can email them and ask them to
switch in someone else.
Thanks Ian, but I've got a confirmed place as well (the confirmation message
is how I know it was full
On 12/1/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a confirmed place, but can't make it.
Mario would you like my space? Sure I can email them and ask them to
switch in someone else.
Thanks Ian, but I've got a confirmed place as well (the confirmation
message is how I know it was
Fyi, this event is now full (but i think you may still be able to get
on the waiting list). m.
On 11/30/06, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend sent me this...
Second life are running a workshop in London on the 13th of December
This three hour workshop will help you understand
I agree with Tom, too much can be read into data like this. Just to add some
more data to the mix, and for a different slant: Consumers cool on video
downloads: http://www.mrweb.com/drno/frmemail/article6175.htm
(what have I started here... this has moved into a direction I wasn't
thinking of
Just stumbled upon this, and thought it may be of interest to some folks on
the list: http://psiphon.civisec.org
According to the front page, psiphon is a human rights software project
developed by the Citizen Lab http://www.citizenlab.org/ at the Munk Centre
for International Studies that
Looks like we have the same issue I reported for Radio 4 a few weeks ago,
this time with BBC Parliament:
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/api/query.pl?method=bbc.schedule.getProgrammesformat=simpledetail=schedulechannel_id=BBCParl
... has been returning Error: Code 152 No matches found for
On 10/31/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this idea a lot!I can imagine we could run the mail archives through a tag cloud maker and generate pretty much everything we need. How cool would it be if peoples names came up? :)
If you want to see what the current tag cloud may look
On 11/1/06, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's an implementation of the subject line tag cloud which otherpeople are welcome to copy, mash-up, hack, use on their own mailinglists, etc.
http://paulm.com/inchoate/2006/11/backstage_get_with_the_program.htmlWhat do you do when you want to
On 10/26/06, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Superb. It seems to be having some difficulties with the
degree symbol though (rendering it as a zero?)...
The forecast
for London, United Kingdom on Thursday: sunny intervals. Max Temp: 190C
(660F), Min Temp: 80C (460F)
I think the
/26/06, Laurence Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi MarioI didnt get your point here. What do I need to do to run these demos? I'll like to have a run of them.
LaurenceOn 25/10/06, Mario Menti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using Mike's location OPML (see
http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml
On 10/26/06, Robert Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BBC weather feeds, the following experimental IM bots should now be running:That's very cool Mario, what language/app do you use to interface with the IMs?It's done in Perl, using an open-source framework (
http://www.duncanlamb.com/sdba/) and
On 10/6/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there's a few news video podcasts in mp4 here (they play on QT7)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4977678.stmnone really suited to news SL though (we'd need a News 24 or BBC World
QT unicast stream), though the thought of David Dimbleby
On 10/4/06, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unlike Matthew, I have a great relationship with my host and I'm being upgraded from aserver in Panama to Canada. Going up in the world! :-) You'll miss the climate though..
On 10/3/06, 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
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
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
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
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
On 9/29/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah
thanks Mario,
So I'm
wondering which you prefer?Hi Ian,hard to say... I started with the live.com gadget, then ported that to the other platforms. If I started elsewhere I may have addressed things differently, but as it stood, it was
On 9/28/06, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone had experience of any of the other widget engines out there?Google, Netvibes, Opera, Vista?I'm wondering which path they went down. XML or HTML?I've done widgets for Google,
live.com, pageflakes.com and mac dashboard.They all provide
On 9/24/06, Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith wrote: The problem 've run into is that WS schedules don't seem to provide a feed of any sort. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could get around this?The BBC Web API -
http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/ - should provevery
Well done ian and best of luck! Mario (keeping it brief - currently on
the lovely ile de re, and typing on mobile tedious..)
On 8/24/06, Jeremy Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all
Obviously its already been blogged but I'd just like to let the list
know that Backstage finally has a new
On 8/4/06, Andrew McParland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fixed.AndrewSince we're talking about that page, I think a link to http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/ would be in order?
Cheers,Mario.
Not .Net, and haven't used it in a while, but I used Perl's WWW-Mechanize (http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/) sucessfully in the past, going across multiple pages, form submits etc..
Just in case it helps..Mario.On 7/24/06, Murray, Simon (IED) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi
All
The server hosting the BBC Web API (http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/index.html) seems to be unreachable.. at least from where I am. Anyone else can get to it, or is it currently down?
Cheers,Mario.
On 6/23/06, Matt Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this is kind of a late follow up but I got bored a fews daysago and decided to build this module/gadget for Google's personalisedhomepage that used the data Ben provided. I hadn't built one before soI thought it would be a good start.
You can
Hi all,I have updated my BBC now/next modules to use the BBC Web API. They now also include radio (with links to BBC radio player for streaming audio) as well as TV stations.Available for google,
live.com, pageflakes, and a Mac OS X dashboard widget.More info, download, etc. at
A little late, but just in case it's still useful to anyone that's using Leon's TV::Anytime CPAN module:I found 2 problems in the module caused by this change, both easy to change:In
Anytime.pm, change the namespace urn to refer to 2005 instead of 2002:$xpc-registerNs('tva',
?
feed xmlns=http://purl.org/atom/ns#
title xmlns=http://purl.org/atom/ns#BBC One: What's on now/next/
title author xmlns=http://purl.org/atom/ns#
name xmlns=http://purl.org/atom/ns#Mario Menti, supported by
backstage.bbc.co.uk/nameemail xmlns=
http://purl.org/atom/ns#[EMAIL PROTECTED]/email
On 3/20/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a single site which lists all decent APIs?http://www.programmableweb.com/apis is pretty comprehensive..
Hi all,here's a brief update on recent conversations and developments on the BBCPersian.com news bot.1. A Jabber version of the bot is online at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.I tried it with a number of different Jabber clients, and proper support for Arabic/Farsi and BiDi rendering seems rather patchy
I really have to get something better than my cheap VPS seems just minutes after posting this, the server has some DNS issues and can't see the outside world.Sorry about this, will update you when it's solved...
On 3/7/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following a conversation with Dan
Back now... touch wood! Some iptables screw-up, hoping it will stay up..Mario.On 3/7/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:I really have to get something better than my cheap VPS seems just minutes after posting this, the server has some DNS issues and can't see the outside world.
Sorry
Hi there,looks like today's TV-Anytime tar file (20060306.tar.gz at http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/) is broken - could someone fix and replace it?
Thanks,Mario.
On 3/3/06, Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folksHas anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click onthe map to make a web request with the location clicked on?DharmeshThomas Scott's backstage TVMAP prototype?
http://tvmap.thomasscott.net
On 3/3/06, Kirk Northrop[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick B wrote: You obviously fixed it. I then left as every hour was too annoying. Can I get an update when I want ... e.g I want every 3 hours between 7am and 12am... Just a thought. Other than that, quite okay, it started working the
last few
On 2/25/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan Brickley wrote: I guess the AIM version works then. I also signed up for MSN flavour of the bot, but haven't had any newsflashes...Same here.Probably best to take this off-list. From the sound of it, it seems there is a problem with pushing
Another late night, another IM bot...Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes news to them automatically, without you having to request it. So I sat down last night and implemented something like this (pretty raw in its current state):
- you contact the bot to
On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bot doesn't seem to work for me - always offline?That's odd, they all seem to be online OK.. which network are you trying, and which client? The bots should be set to auto-authorise new contacts, and should automatically show their status. If
On 2/9/06, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I couldn't see your TV listings bot as online when I used GTalk , however when I tried using it, it worked fine. Hope that helps.Thanks Vijay - I've noticed this a few times with the Talk client, also with human non-GTalk jabber clients. Sometimes
On 2/9/06, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] one that isn't working. The News Flashone does.Strange, that one looks online as well. In general it's certainly possible for the bots to go offline (either by being kicked, or network/connectivity issues), plus they're
Thanks for everyone's feedback with this.A summary of suggestions received includes...- only showing headlines once (the current format is showing the news items most recently updated, so the same stories may re-appear if they've been updated, a little like hourly network news I guess)
- being
Hi all,
I've given my BBC backstage IM bots a little overhaul, so they should now be easier to use (they still do the same thing though: now/next info, searching through BBC 7-day TV schedules, setting SMS programme reminders).
Feel free to try them and let me know if you have any suggestions
Thanks David.
Nice suggestion, and I've just implementeda message along these linesfor the AIM and Jabber bots. It's a little harder for MSN, but will add it to the MSN bot whenever I get the time to figure it out.
Re. your football query, it does seem to have returned one match (according to
On 2/6/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks David.
Nice suggestion, and I've just implementeda message along these linesfor the AIM and Jabber bots. It's a little harder for MSN, but will add it to the MSN bot whenever I get the time to figure it out.
OK, should now work for MSN
On 1/23/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gavin it sounds like a good idea and I know others who are thinking of doing
the same thing. I even think the Digg guys are planning to rollout Digg for
general news, cooking recipes, etc.
... and of course, there's Newsvine. Incidentally, I
Google have yesterday released their homepage API which lets users create widgets for the Google personalised homepage (google.com/ig). This works very similarly to the way gadgets work on
live.com, so last night (with minimal effort) I have ported my existing what's on now/next live.com gadget
On 11/29/05, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re. google/ig, as I just mentioned in the previous post, the feeds work
fine with the google rss reader (reader.google.com). I even copied the
xml content from a blogger atom feed that works in my personalised home
page, copied it into a static
Brief update on this...On 12/7/05, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Text the name of a BBC TV station (no radio stations - yet) to 07781 488578.This will send you back a text message with what's on now/next on the TV channel you selected. It also contains a link to a xhtml-basic page
I hear the Yorkshire Grey is hastily installing an IRC backchannel in preparation for our meet-up on Monday. Just think of the PR :-)
On 12/5/05, Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I happened to look at my IM bot logs this afternoon, and was more than a little surprised that since last night, the MSN bot had been in use non-stop. Between yesterday evening and this afternoon, more than 1,100
individual new users had
You may find this amusing
I happened to look at my IM bot logs this afternoon, and was more than
a little surprised that since last night, the MSN bot had been in use
non-stop. Between yesterday evening and this afternoon, more than 1,100
individual new users had spoken to it...
A
' part of Last.fm(example: http://www.last.fm/music/Buck+65/+similar) with an
'adventurous' setting - strict (only play the artists I listed), near(uses the top 10 similar artists), go on surprise me (uses the top 50similar artists).Hope I haven't rambled too much/off topic,
AlOn 12/2/05, Mario
On 11/29/05, Michael Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd seen the same thing on the backstage site and submitted a comment to point to my now next feed builder @
http://tv.blueghost.co.uk/nn.php
Yes, comment moderation (and prototype submission) on the backstage site seem to be a little on
On 11/29/05, Jem Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Mario. This is great stuff. In response to someone's Idea posted on the backstage site, I've made some very simple Atom RSS feeds available that show what's on now/next on BBC TV channels.
I've got em working in a number of places on live.com
to be any free/cheap SMS
gateways. I just decided to use a Pay as you go phone with SMS bundles
and just pay for
all the texts.
Regards
Adam
Quoting Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Looking at the prototypes published on this list and on the backstage
site, it occured to me that by combining
Also, is it international or restricted to U.K. residents?
It's open to everyone, see http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/first_backstage.html
Hi all,
apologies for posting this here, I tried to add this as a comment to
the prototype posting at
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2005/09/search_bbc_sche.html,
but for some reason the MT comment policies rejected it.
In brief, I've added some additional reminder functionality
Shame - would have been useful for an
EPG.
No such thing as a free lunch :-)
and the Yahoo! messenger (and now the Google one) as I haven't tried making
anything that uses them, but I might have a look into them at some
time.What you have there does look like it could be
interesting.Duncan
Mario Menti wrote:
Jim,I took your code and integrated it into some instant
look like it could be interesting.
Duncan
Mario Menti wrote:
Jim,
I took your code and integrated it into some instant messaging bot code
I am using. This would enable people to search the 7-day listing
through their IM client..
There's a demo bot running on my jabber server - if any of you
Jim,
I took your code and integrated it into some instant messaging bot code
I am using. This would enable people to search the 7-day listing
through their IM client..
There's a demo bot running on my jabber server - if any of you are on
Jabber and want to have a peek, start a Jabber
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