Re: [backstage] Have Your Say Reader

2006-11-03 Thread Mr I Forrester
James wrote: Hey, I was messing around with "Have Your Say" feeds today and put together a little app specifically for reading all the have your say stuff. Got some little bits left to do but heres a "demo" so far: http://www.webcoding.co.uk/HaveYourSay/Demo.html Looking forward to seeing

[backstage] Have Your Say Reader

2006-11-03 Thread James
Hey, I was messing around with "Have Your Say" feeds today and put together a little app specifically for reading all the have your say stuff. Got some little bits left to do but heres a "demo" so far: http://www.webcoding.co.uk/HaveYourSay/Demo.html Ill post a link to the app when its done

RE: [backstage] SecondLife mashups are where its at?

2006-11-03 Thread Kim Plowright
Oh, dear, that makes me sound like a tit, that blogpost :-) I think there's some *really* interesting stuff going on in SL at the moment (Mario, Kosso, hello!) - but there's a lot of hype around the platform, too; a lot of big companies are going a bit mental about it. I heard someone say the othe

Re: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Alistair Rutherford
The traffic event data comes from the BBC TPEG feeds: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/TravelFeeds?v=138u The roadworks and VMS signs come from here: http://www.ntccxmlservice.hatrafficresearch.info/ This is apparently a trial service. I use Python scripts on the server to download and parse th

RE: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Phil Winstanley
That's cool, where are you getting the traffic data from? Thanks, Phil. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alistair Sent: 03 November 2006 13:34 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0 I was

Re: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Alistair
I was hoping someone would notice the bzzzy icon. The site layout is a bit wonky on initial entry. If you click on 'help' button or resize the browser window the status bar along the bottom should appear. In the middle of this is the 'permalink' link. Bookmarking this will take you back to wha

RE: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Ian Forrester
Version 2.0 of website www.gTraffic.info has gone on-line. The site has been completely rewritten using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2006/11/gtrafficinfo_v2.html - 'Busy' indicator. Is that Busy indicator taken from the Atari GEM desktop? - Permalink

Re: [backstage] Weather data...not weather description

2006-11-03 Thread James Ockenden
if you can get some weather traders signed up to this data, that will be be the sweet money spot to drive to development. For example, i know a power trader in the US who has set up a really mind-boggling complex feed from 50 weather forecast sites into his electricity pricing modelit's a wond

[backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Alistair
Hello to everyone on the backstage list. Version 2.0 of website www.gTraffic.info has gone on-line. The site has been completely rewritten using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Highlights of the new site include: - New look and feel with tabbed views. - Zebra list style with sortable columns. - Sel