[backstage] Hello

2011-08-02 Thread James Holden
Hello, I was clearing up my site other day and came across over 8,000 samples of the BBC News site which I captured using my BBC Archive tool which was running at that time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/04/prototype-bbc-archiver.s html Here's the combined video of the BBC

RE: [backstage] iPad iplayer app issue

2011-06-20 Thread James Holden
I would say this issue is well known and well talked about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbiplayer/NF13735683?thread=7951758skip=50 The problem still seems to exist up to end of May and there seems to be sporadic feedback from the BBC in this specific thread. Jim -Original Message- From:

[backstage] Backstage Ticker

2010-11-16 Thread James Holden
I know good ol'backstage is taking its last few gasps but I thought I'd add my beeb inspired rss desktop ticker for Windows whilst people are still here! http://server-2.webcoding.co.uk/bbc_ticker_2010/ supported by BBC Backstage and all that blurb.

[backstage] Top 40 XML

2010-10-29 Thread James Holden
Hey, Someone asked me to update my Top 40 page so the XML version worked again. I took the opportunity to slightly extend the feed to include a bit more information and add direct links to track via Spotify's Metadata API. Feeds are here: http://server-2.webcoding.co.uk/top40.xml

RE: [backstage] Top 40 XML

2010-10-29 Thread James Holden
data? Patrick On 29 October 2010 18:01, James Holden james_hol...@londonmarketing.com wrote: Hey, Someone asked me to update my Top 40 page so the XML version worked again. I took the opportunity to slightly extend the feed to include a bit more information and add direct links to track

RE: [backstage] BBC Archiver

2010-07-15 Thread James Holden
-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Jakob Fix Sent: 14 July 2010 22:59 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Archiver James, cool stuff! What tool are you using to take the automated screen shots from the websites? cheers, Jakob

RE: [backstage] BBC Archiver

2010-07-15 Thread James Holden
I do like it, it's cleaner than before and probably better from a content management point of view but there are some odd bits about it. I'd move up (on homepage) More from the BBC News and get rid of the overly dark UK News Weather block which doesn't fit for me. One of the strangest

[backstage] BBC Archiver

2010-07-14 Thread James Holden
Hi, Just a quick update about the BBC Archiver: The system which captured the screen shots was turned off by mistake for the last few days. Sorry about this and the new news site is now being archived. (Looks good, well done). http://server-2.webcoding.co.uk/BBCArchive/calendar.php

RE: [backstage] iPad and iPlayer

2010-05-20 Thread James Holden
It's actually incredibly easy to get the iPlayer working on the iPad via safari. Additionally the video source is fully compatible with HTML5 video containers. So long as you ensure that requests come from iphone marked devices you can get Safari to work with it perfectly and indeed present

Re: [backstage] iPad and iPlayer

2010-04-15 Thread James Montgomerie
If you use an iPhone app with a built in browser (Files works well for me), you can access the iPhone iPlayer on the iPad. It looks reasonably good in pixel-doubled mode. Jamie. On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:33, Paul Webster paul-at-dabdig.com |BBC Lists/Example Allow| wrote: Ok - I admit it ... I

[backstage] iplayer css broken in chrome?

2009-11-29 Thread James Crowley
not a stylesheet! Thanks James --- James Crowley CEO, developerFusion - the global developer community web: http://www.developerfusion.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/developerfusion tel: 0207 291 0783 mob: 07986624128 --- Developer Fusion Ltd is registered in England No. 04905407 Registered office 58

[backstage] Grand Prix on iPlayer not available on all devices?

2009-06-22 Thread James Montgomerie
I hope someone here can answer my iPlayer question: It seems that I can only access the main Grand Prix coverage from yesterday (b00l8s2q and b00lllnf) on the iPlayer site on my desktop, not from my iPhone or Wii. On the non-desktop devices, only the qualifying and the highlights are

Re: [backstage] RDTV launched

2009-04-10 Thread James Montgomerie
On 9 Apr 2009, at 22:57, Mr I Forrester mailbox-at-cubicgarden.com | BBC Lists| wrote: I hope you find the project useful as some of the footage is well worth looking through if you have the time. We are planning to have even more formats supported in the next week or so. So if Mpeg4 isn't

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

2009-03-29 Thread James Ockenden
I think this is a false dilemma. Guys in my office have phones with 8MP cameras. My 18-month old phone has a 5MP camera. I suspect a good lens and skill with photoshop is vastly more important than the photographer being professional. Sure, some kid with a 10MP phone can take a 300dpi

[backstage] Competition Commission bounces Project Kangeroo

2009-02-04 Thread Jeremy James
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7869181.stm A victory or a loss for consumer choice? -jeremy P.S. Also; opportunities for a marsupial pun thread. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

2008-12-31 Thread James Cridland
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Gareth Davis gareth.da...@bbc.co.ukwrote: It still still being made, just not for the tellybox :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/top_of_the_pops.shtml So, why doesn't it appear in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming Surely it

Re: [backstage] not quite in the Backstage spirit?

2008-12-22 Thread James Cridland
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Martin Deutsch martin.deut...@gmail.comwrote: Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)... Being fair... use of the logo means official. No use of the logo means unofficial. That's what the Backstage licence basically says. Do a quick iTunes

Re: [backstage] Media Selector query

2008-12-09 Thread James Cridland
I'll look at what the media selector is doing: we'll be adding Windows Media files in there shortly (for wifi radios). It's not my team that does it, but I need to work on making it easier to understand! On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You never know

re: [backstage] Newstime on BanterTV

2008-10-28 Thread James Crowley
services, sharing data (such as contacts, calendars, photos etc)... and it all ties into the Windows Azure platform too, but still getting my head around it! --- James Crowley CEO, developerFusion - the global developer community Developer Fusion Ltd | 58 Sandringham Close | Enfield, EN1 3JH mob

Re: [backstage] ping.fm

2008-10-27 Thread Bruce James
IMHO Ping.fm is good, but not great. Would be nice to see a bit of a preview of what a post looks like in various services. Some of mine have been truncated by twitter and facebook and look odd. And links sometimes come out all wrong for me, so tinyurl before submission? B On 27 Oct

Re: [backstage] HD Videocamera advice please...

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy James
Simon Thompson wrote: The GOP length is the number of frames between successive I-Frames. A long GOP length will, for example, cause a delay on video appearing on changing channels on a STB or, as editing cuts can only start from an I-Frame will mean you can't do frame accurate editing. I

Re: [backstage] New Internet Radio

2008-08-21 Thread James Cridland
Pure are making a new DAB and Internet Radio. I have one of these (in a box just there, look). Next tonight, I'll be opening it and blogging the results on http://james.cridland.net/blog/ And this interesting bit: Crawford also said that there would be additional services coming online by

[backstage] BBC News iGoogle gadget

2008-08-04 Thread James Cridland
If you like iGoogle gadgets, then there's the rather nice BBC Weather unofficial gadget, which you can add by going to http://bit.ly/bbcweather_ig (and I've summarily broken the old one, since you can't simply forward it on). There's also now a nice new BBC News unofficial iGoogle gadget, which

Re: [backstage] Radio now playing feeds

2008-08-01 Thread James Cridland
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Chris Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I guess question number 1 is how supported is the publishing of now playing data to last.fm? Is it something that the BBC will provide their own supported feed for as part of the new music site (especially as you are

[backstage] BBC weather iGoogle gadget - v2

2008-07-30 Thread James Cridland
So, I did a BBC Weather iGoogle gadget last year. It was kind of nice, but sadly people are actually, um, using it - with over 20,000 impressions a day. Yikes. Think of the bandwidth and hassle that's causing my little server. So I've totally rewritten it, to sit on Google's own servers and work

Re: [backstage] So was *this* what Mr. Cridland was referring to recently?

2008-07-30 Thread James Cridland
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Woods wrote: Tech question - what encoder(s) are you using? If it's software in realtime or close-to-realtime, please (please please) say it's Lame 3.97. If the backend is using the Fraunhofer FhG

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - why the missing TV channel?

2008-07-30 Thread James Cridland
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm still wondering why you can't download the radio podcasts from the new iPlayer... Coming soon. Some tech challenges, but also a UI challenge of how on earth do we signal that yes, you CAN download The Now Show,

[backstage] BBC Music Beta launches

2008-07-28 Thread James Cridland
My team have produced another corker... http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta is a lovely looking site, and contains lots and lots of lovely APIs... more details at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers#RESTful How splendid. Well done, chaps and chapesses. j

Re: [backstage] iPlayer 2 - wow!

2008-07-04 Thread James Cridland
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new iPlayer looks great and seems to work exceptionally well http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayerbeta/ ...and it's now at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer too. With one important addition: RSS FEEDS. Yes. Mmm. They auto-detect too,

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-16 Thread James Cridland
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/13 James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a lot of our streams, You mean this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml

Re: [backstage] More good news .. BBC to build web page for every TV show, says Jana Bennett

2008-06-14 Thread James Cridland
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes (a page for every programme, tv or radio) The bit I was really interested in is a page for every programme already shown. What a brilliant idea that is. Shame so many will have the

[backstage] BBC blog RSS feeds go... full text! Yay!

2008-06-13 Thread James Cridland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/full_articletext_feeds_for_bbc.html I've been asking for months. No, years. Finally. Hurray! Well done Jem, Aaron, and the others.

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-13 Thread James Cridland
Enjoying this thread so far. As the man in charge of the Coyopa project, which'll be fiddling with a lot of our streams, could I pop in and make the following points (given you know we're making changes later this year)... 1. We are not removing internet-radio-compatible streams. Panic not. 2.

Re: [backstage] More good news .. BBC to build web page for every TV show, says Jana Bennett

2008-06-13 Thread James Cridland
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/10/bbc.digitalmedia BBC to build web page for every TV show, says Jana Bennett A brilliant idea by the sounds of things. Cough http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes (a page for every

Re: [backstage] Re: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] RE: [backstage] Re: Is it OK for BT Vision to charge £3 per month for the iPlayer?

2008-06-09 Thread James Ockenden
I would pay £6 a month for pre-selected iplayer content delivered to me on a DVD here in Hong Kong. Could any of the the three Bs - BT, BBC or Brian - offer that service, legally? - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Radio 4 on Realplayer

2008-06-04 Thread James Cridland
@christopher: Ooo ooo oo oo oo oo oo oo, *FLAC streaming*? Lossless WMA? If you'd be happy trebling your licence fee, and explaining why everyone else has to... (grin)... but I've plenty of experience adding odd formats to radio stations which don't have many listeners, thanks. @briantist:

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

2008-06-03 Thread James Cridland
Possibly worth mentioning that the reason why iPlayer (and RadioPlayer) are not great on other platforms is that both product infrastructures currently force us to produce static pages rather than sensibly database-derived products. iPlayer v2.0 is less than a month away; the backend

Re: [backstage] Film Reviews

2008-06-03 Thread James Cridland
I have forwarded this good idea on. I've also commented that associated RSS feeds should return a 404 for sites we no longer maintain. On 30 May 2008, at 08:22, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick idea. How about a page on bbc.co.uk noting sections that have

Re: [backstage] Radio 4 on Realplayer

2008-06-03 Thread James Cridland
And to feed back to you (it's your BBC)... The issue here was a peculiar glitch in the signal received by the satellite receiving units at Maidenhead. (At present, all our national network online streams are re-encoded from satellite receivers by our technology partner Siemens). For a while, we

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

2008-05-14 Thread Jeremy James
Gareth Davis wrote: Why would it be? SDI is the usual way we send SD digital audio and video round the studios. The bitrate may be high, but it is still interlaced SD resolution video. I can't remember the various different bandwidth figures for HD SDI, and I can't be bothered digging through

Re: [backstage] iPlayer (unoffically) on the PS3

2008-05-01 Thread Bruce James
On 1 May 2008, at 11:15, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 10:39 +0100, David Johnston wrote: That's all very good - SWF is essentially the platform and FLV the format - but RTMP (the streaming delivery mechanism used by the flash-based iPlayer) is proprietary with no mature

Re: [backstage] Ashley Highfield leaves BBC (almost)

2008-04-16 Thread James Ockenden
[totally off off-topic] Ertugrul defends BBC kettle plan Kent Ertugrul says there is no privacy issue with his concept of monitoring BBC kettles to target beverage advertisments to the kettle user. With a Phorm-BBC-PAT-approved kettle, the request for electricity is first sent to several switching

Re: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

2008-04-15 Thread Jeremy James
Brian Butterworth wrote: * ISPs provide rack space for BBC servers inside their network * Who pays for servers? * Who maintains servers? ISP? Siemens? * Who pays for power usage? * ISPs provide list of IP addresses to directed to said servers * How is this done? Manually? How many ISPs? Or as

Re: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-04-12 Thread James Cridland
Further to all the discussion in this thread about HD, it would occur to me that what would be really cool is to see an 'Also in HD' overlay on an SD channel when the programme is being simulcast in HD. Hitting that colour (hey, use blue) and it'll pop over to the BBC HD channel. Neat. I don't

Re: [backstage] 502 error

2008-04-12 Thread James Cridland
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, does anyone else get a 502 error when trying to post to Justin Web's blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/04/letting_it_al

Re: [backstage] Embracing the torrent of online video

2008-03-27 Thread James Cridland
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else find it odd *ALL* the BBC rights holders are demanding exactly the same thing? Sounds a lot like a Cartel to me. (I Am Not a Lawyer) They're not; we have a complicated rights situation which make things rather more

Re: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

2008-03-25 Thread James Cridland
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're interested in this stuff, then November should bring a really interesting day from The Radio Academy, called 'Radio at the Edge'. I'll be mentioning it ad nauseam later in the year, but thought I'd not turn

Re: [backstage] DVB-H finally gets formal adoption by the EC (oh and vista SP1!)

2008-03-22 Thread James Cridland
Don't confuse the DAB IP telly stuff from BT Movio with proper telly over DAB. That standard is called T-DMB and it's excellent quality. It's in use in various places, including South Korea. The cold, dead hand of Microsoft goes nowhere near T-DMB. DVB-H is fine, as long as you don't mind

Re: [backstage] BBC Home Page broken

2008-03-15 Thread James Cridland
Those pages are as designed, incidentally: nobody will link to them that way (unlike a relocation). On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, www.bbcnews.co.uk Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fox

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

2008-03-14 Thread James Cridland
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Iain Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You basically have to send the exact same headers that an iPhone does, along with the BBC-UID. Fortunately someone emailed me a plain-text log of successful requests sniffed from his iPhone. I've used curl instead of wget

[backstage] Fun with your mobile

2008-03-14 Thread James Cridland
) is entirely free. Now, I need to go and write a blog post. -- James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music Interactive Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place | London W1B 3DF MSN/GTalk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio | http://www.bbc.co.uk/music

Re: [backstage] Fun with your mobile

2008-03-14 Thread James Day
It's very nice on Opera Mini running on a Nokia E65 also. It would be really great if mobile offerings were designed to be less device specific though. I think it's probably time for the BBC to review the existing browser support standards and extend these to include mobile devices, as they

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Programme Guide...

2008-03-02 Thread James Cridland
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Carlos Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't work on iPlayer team so don't know if there is one or not. Maybe someone else on the list could. It's the desire of the iPlayer team to have an RSS feed on every page of the new UI, which is due end April

[backstage] A day in the life of a BBC Backstage widget

2008-03-02 Thread James Cridland
I posted here in September, talking about a BBC Weather widget I'd written using BBC Backstage data. If you're interested how it's done, I've just dropped a blog about it. (I believe dropping a blog is the new vernacular.) http://james.cridland.net/blog/2008/03/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-widget/

Re: [backstage-developer] random-human algorithm?

2008-02-15 Thread James Montgomerie
On 15 Feb 2008, at 17:57, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 j.chetwynd-at-btinternet.com wrote: random-human algorithm? does anyone have a - simple algorithm - for tessellating the window with images randomly? it's well known that human concept of random differs from the mathematical... for this instance:

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread James Cridland
On Jan 8, 2008 3:16 PM, neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions include: Is this intuitive? Does the data shift as you might expect? Are two sliders too complex? Is a slider appropriate here, or should something else be used? Is the sorting algorithm right? What should we do about duplicate

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash] Adobe EULA

2008-01-08 Thread James Cridland
On 08/01/2008, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think 10% or 20% time is a great thing to allow not just developers, but many areas of the BBC, and I wished it had happened whilst I was there. Just a shame that if people get to know more widely about it you can be sure that the

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Gnash] Adobe EULA

2008-01-07 Thread James Cridland
something to help my team who work on podcasts. -- James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music Interactive Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place | London W1B 3DF http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio | http://www.bbc.co.uk/music | http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

2008-01-05 Thread James Cridland
On Jan 4, 2008 4:59 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/01/2008, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if your building a iplayer for an exotic device platform, do get in touch. Quick questions: Adobe Flash is prohibited on non-PC systems, is the BBC suggesting we violate Adobe's

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2008-01-01 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 30, 2007 2:37 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the full comment: It's sad to see that Linus Torvalds, one of the leading figures in the Free Software movement, doesn't really care for freedom. And it's even sadder that he resorts to insults, saying that those who *do*

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2008-01-01 Thread James Cridland
On Jan 2, 2008 12:07 AM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/01/2008, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, this ... says that people shoudn't push the freedom idea onto others in a frothing-at-the-mouth way - not that people shouldn't care about freedom, nor that it's

Re: [backstage] Broadcasters to launch joint VoD service

2007-12-29 Thread James Cridland
And more importantly, why did you just send a suspicious file in you email? What are you doing sending .dat files anyway? For the record, Google Mail (or Gmail, if you're in the US) automatically threads every message in Backstage correctly; you can also use its excellent

[backstage] Random idea - On-demand Radio via TV

2007-12-24 Thread James Brook
is a bad idea? Cheers, James ps - Happy Christmas/New Year. - 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 archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

2007-12-18 Thread Jeremy James
Christopher Woods wrote: I'm glad to see that the clock has finally made a comeback (...) I'm a bit disappointed by the clock - or more generally, any web clock that simply uses the local clock time when it should really be getting a sync from the server (at the best it duplicates information

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread James Bridle
Oh my word this is all so tiresome - rehashed, insoluble debate points surrounded in prose which is itself quite retentively picked apart to needlessly point score - in a discussion I'm sure 90% of the list would prefer not to be cluttering their inboxes. I can visit Slashdot for this no ?

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 6, 2007 2:23 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/12/2007, Deirdre Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hurray for freedom. I'm sure you'll appreciate that that kind of disdain for users is not something the BBC is likely to go along with. Sadly the BBC has disdain for

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 6, 2007 12:16 PM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/12/2007, Matthew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The delay is just a small-team-working-on-/programmes-and-trying-to-fit-it-all-in thing. Any chance of explaining what the BBC actually have to do when someone says let's open

[backstage] Google Charts API

2007-12-06 Thread James Cridland
Neat and possibly useful chart API from Google, released today: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ If it's of any use, I've written a quick PHP encoding script for it, instead of the JavaScript version they offer: http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/12/06/google-charts-api-using-php/ I've

Re: [backstage] Google Charts API

2007-12-06 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 7, 2007 12:15 AM, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Cridland wrote: ... As a note, this will be the second time that a member of my team has released code Third actually :-) (that I know of :) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122494package_id

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-05 Thread James Cridland
On Dec 5, 2007 9:06 PM, Matthew Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all - a quick word from the infamous Perl on Rails team itself Psst, Matt, nobody's reading these bits. They're too busy arguing about licences. Still, better that than nothing. Which reminds me - have we finished adding that

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-04 Thread James Cridland
$target; return You don't need to understand $target to work at the BBC\n; } print job_requirement(perl); ... so hasten yourself to www.bbc.co.uk/jobs now. -- James Cridland | Head of Future Media Technology, BBC Audio Music Interactive Room 718 | Henry Wood House | 3-6 Langham Place

Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music

2007-11-24 Thread James Cridland
On Nov 23, 2007 12:20 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quoting me in April] It's possible for all our podcasts to be produced in Ogg Vorbis automatically, too. Indeed, all our on-demand audio is already encoded into Ogg Vorbis, for when it becomes a popular codec (and we're

Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-22 Thread James Ockenden
Brian, I also missed the very subtle changes to the page- but I would say, hyperlinking scientists and headaches etc every other word is gonna give the reader sore eyes and thousands of hours of lost work as they educate themselves in mass trivia. And to Rob, respect for your project; from a user

Re: [backstage] DRM duration?

2007-11-11 Thread James Cridland
On Nov 8, 2007 10:42 AM, David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course this is a blog so not exactly a reference source: http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/11/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html So this DRM system seems to have lasted 2003-2006. Then a year later you lose any

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-06 Thread James Cox
On 6 Nov 2007, at 00:07, Andrew Bowden wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of James Cox 'course, bbc.co.uk has had some kind of redirect magic for a while: http://bbc.co.uk/zanelowe/ First time I've seen a big fat httpd.conf called magic :) and there I was thinking you had some nice

Re: [backstage] Use of Tinyurl in Emails

2007-11-05 Thread James Cox
home (or to the pub!) - james -- James Cox, Internet Consultant t: 07968 349990 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://imaj.es/

Re: [backstage] Wii News Channel

2007-10-18 Thread James Cridland
On 10/16/07, Barry Carlyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had heard that one of the student radio stations was building a flash player for their radio stream for the wii….. Cough http://www.playthree.net/2007/04/virgin-radio-available-on-ps3-and-wii.html Yes, April. //j

Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas

2007-09-28 Thread James Ockenden
i would like a data feed of all the BBC Have Your Say responses which have a) been most recommended and b) feature a large amount of capital letters (eg BOYCOTT CHINA). That way, you could launch a very low cost newspaper to rival the Daily Express/Mail without any real journalism. And thank-you

Re: [backstage] TV Data Formats and Sources of Data

2007-09-28 Thread James Ockenden
get a fast laser printer. On 28/09/2007, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I know some of you will find this question dull, but it's something that I would be interested in knowing the answer to (though a suspect there is no definitive answer the discussion would help with making

[backstage] the economics of BBC content

2007-09-21 Thread James Ockenden
, and the corporation saved enough to buy a researcher to oomph up the story. cheers! James in HK - 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 archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage

[backstage] iPod touch // iPhone development

2007-09-20 Thread James Cridland
Those of you who might be keeping an eye on the next big thing, and who are in London, might want to know that the Apple Store in Regent Street has a slew of iPod Touch units available to play with. There are developer kits available on the web, but if you want to give your new app a quick test on

Re: [backstage] Can't cannot to BBC radio streams

2007-09-17 Thread James Cridland
Thanks for this bug report. It's very interesting, and my team are looking at it as we speak. We are aware of some issues with the BBC Radio streams on Windows Media Player. Yours has possibly been the most useful bug report we've seen so far! //j On 9/17/07, Mark Hingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [backstage] Amazon EC2

2007-09-12 Thread James Cridland
It is in use within the BBC, I believe; though the hack day stuff used a different virtualisation thing. I use S3 personally and at mediauk.com, incidentally. -- http://james.cridland.net | http://www.mediauk.com Media UK is a Not At All Bad Ltd production. Company info:

Re: [backstage] Fwd: Government response to petition 'iplayer'

2007-09-07 Thread James Cridland
On 9/6/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 19:48 +0100 6/9/07, vijay chopra wrote: I saw that as well. though I signed the petition, I'm not really bothered any more. I just use my windows partition and just strip all my iPlayer downloads of their DRM with the help of the guys over

Re: [backstage] BBC Radio Icon on MediaBank DAB

2007-09-04 Thread James Cridland
Reported; thank you. Any more these web pages aren't updated type emails, please feel free to forward these to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where I will prod the people responsible. I have a collection of quite large res logos, on white, which I've used for www.mediauk.com ; shout if you need them. On

Re: [backstage] Release: BBC Weather iGoogle gadget

2007-09-02 Thread James Cridland
Bad Ltd production. Company info: http://www.notatallbad.ltd.uk/ On 9/2/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, Very nice - simple to use too. Any chance you could make it provide the old weather symbols (as stilled used on bbc.co.uk homepage) as an option? On 01/09/07, James

Re: [backstage] Release: BBC Weather iGoogle gadget

2007-09-02 Thread James Cridland
it would be fine you use the BBC URLs rather than copy them and rehost them. On 02/09/07, James Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, have replied offlist to this. Any chance you could make it provide the old weather symbols (as stilled used on bbc.co.uk homepage) as an option

Re: [backstage] Later data

2007-08-24 Thread James Cridland
http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2825/ - the whole thing's stitched together with MusicBrainz artist ids Theoretically, it should be possible to stitch www.bbc.co.uk/music/ into this, too. That uses Musicbrainz data, but I've no idea where the odd IDs come from. The Coral, for example, is

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City

2007-08-14 Thread James Bridle
They're not mine, but both are listed as CC Att-NonComm-ShareAlike on the site. shorttermmemoryloss.com Brian Butterworth wrote: Can I use one of these photos on my site? Are the CC licenced? On 14/08/07, *Matthew Cashmore* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Photos

[backstage] iPlayer on Intel Mac

2007-08-01 Thread James Bridle
*To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today? On 7/27/07, *James Bridle* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in XP on my Intel Mac... Doesn't appear to work on my MacBook, both

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-30 Thread James Cridland
On 7/29/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (boring DRM invective deleted) Also why does the BBC trust's report not mention the fact that not only is iPlayer Windows only, it is IE only? Did the BBC not tell them they where doing this? Why can't it work with Firefox? iplayer:// can be made to

Re: [backstage] Can we have a developer mailing list?

2007-07-30 Thread James Cridland
On 7/29/07, Adam Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance of a separate developer list for discussion of APIs, services, Geek events, etc. The BBC with the encouragement from Ian Matthew are providing some great sources of information for doing mashups and organising some great

Re: [backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-27 Thread James Bridle
How are the accounts being allocated? I signed up this morning, and like Owen I'm wondering when I'll hear. Looking forward to seeing what it looks like in XP on my Intel Mac... shorttermmemoryloss.com Owen Griffin wrote: On 7/27/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jul

Re: [backstage] About our API

2007-07-23 Thread James Cridland
On 7/17/07, Jonathan Tweed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a shame it's internal only. I'd love it to be on Backstage. I second your thoughts... //j

Re: [backstage] feeds with icons or pictures?

2007-07-23 Thread James Cridland
On 7/23/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want BBC images to use on other websites (from Wikipedia onwards) just visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediabank/ Register, download and use to your hearts desires. Gosh. A search for all images related to BBC Radio (ten national

[backstage] Tivo StopWatch beginner questions...

2007-07-16 Thread James Ockenden
Interesting news from Tivo, it has been measuring 20,000 users second-by-second viewing habits. The results show people actually like the direct response ads better... more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000 CRID/URI-style info streaming in every second for two months

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-16 Thread James Cridland
. Not that it's quite that easy, of course. On 7/16/07, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James - an aside - you need to talk to the programme info people in FMT, and maybe the person in VMPS who is looking after the work done for drama/comedy TV on this kind of stuff. There's a good four year

Re: [backstage] Tivo StopWatch beginner questions...

2007-07-16 Thread James Cridland
On 7/16/07, James Ockenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000 CRID/URI-style info streaming in every second for two months (that's a lot of data no?) and how it measured and identified each program, and, since this was primarliy

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-14 Thread James Cridland
On 7/13/07, Jakob Fix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/13/07, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's some confusion over CRIDs IMO - even in RFC 4078 they get referred to as URLs. I think it's best to think of them as URIs, designed to be unique and location-independent. TV-Anytime

[backstage] data streaming into video

2007-07-09 Thread James Ockenden
/unworkable/crazy/annoying then apologies! best James * although in ten years everyone's gonna be laughing at our waxed eyebrows and black suits... leggings and perms will be back by then i tell you - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

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