Re: [backstage] backstage Twitter?

There's also http://twitter.com/bbcbackstage (and I am http://twitter.com/mario) On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Iain Wallace wrote: > I've not seen any hashtags floating around for backstage. > > Ian Forrester is http://twitter.com/cubicgarden > > I'm http://twitter.com/strawp > > We may as

[backstage] Re: BBC breaking news XML feed broken?

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

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

Great idea, finally got around to trying it out. I do seem to have an issue with the video streaming - on the Wii it keeps stopping and starting, while watching the same programme on my MacBook Pro works fine without any stuttering at all.. the two devices share the same Wifi connection, so not sur

Re: [backstage] Lol

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: > > > Probab

Re: [backstage] Re: Sshhh... I've added a bit to my Backstage project...

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, a

Re: [backstage] Amazon EC2

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

Re: [backstage] Introducing Chipwrapper search for UK newspapers

Hi Martin, this is cool, and I was immediately thinking of feeding the headlines to twitter using twitterfeed. However, some of the feeds, e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/chipwrapper (the chipwrapper uk newspaper headlines) don't seem to contain any date stamps, so won't work with twitterfeed whic

Re: [backstage] BBC TV and Radio 7-day listing

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 B

Re: [backstage] backstage feed on .Mac Reader

On 7/2/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Time to find (and spoof) the iPhone's user-agent! Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3

Re: [backstage] Davy M - Mood News?

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 ..

Re: [backstage] openID on the BBC

On 6/11/07, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/11/07, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I think I like the idea of the BBC offering an OpenID login option, rather than the BBC turning into yet another OpenID provider. You say "yet another OpenID provider"

Re: [backstage] openID on the BBC

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

Re: [backstage] A decent editorially-ordered BBC News feed?

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 gadget

Re: [backstage] A decent editorially-ordered BBC News feed?

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 add

[backstage] "Cridland heads to Beeb"

http://tbites.com/2007/05/cridland-heads-to-beeb Congrats James!

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 on Twitter

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 si

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 on Twitter

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

Re: [backstage] Radio 1 on Twitter

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 th

Re: [backstage] Flash required?

On 3/4/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are they actually qualified or did they pull somebody in off the street (wouldn't be the first time the BBC did that either). You wouldn't believe the number of times I walked past that building, and they still haven't offered me a job. And that's de

Re: [backstage] Percentage of License fee going towards DRM?

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

Re: [backstage] bbc offline?

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 :-)

[backstage] BBC Web API struggling with the snow

Seems the London snow has taken down parts of the Web API: bbc.schedule.getProgrammes ( http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/bbc.schedule.getProgrammes.html) seems to return "Error, Code 152, No matches found" for any query.. Cheers, Mario.

[backstage] BBC launches 'Second Life for kids', says Guardian

According to http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1996262,00.html : "The BBC is to launch a children's version of the cult virtual world, Second Life. CBBC World will offer youngsters a safe environment to explore, and provide them with different zones offering CBBC content. The project

Re: [backstage] Joost anyone?

On 1/16/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not after a review, I wish to use it! The message I got when I signed up was to ask someone else 'who has a token' to provide me with one. And if you don't ask you don't get. Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv Brian - let me know

Re: [backstage] BBC News instant messages on "twitter"

On 1/11/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is the BBC using a (commercial) third party to make a short URL? And then giving them (tinyurl.com) free advertising? That's my "fault"... but twitter limits messages to 160 characters overall (so alerts work via SMS), and I wanted to pro

Re: [backstage] Get BBC news on Twitter

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 n

Re: [backstage] Get BBC news on Twitter

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 fo

[backstage] Get BBC news on Twitter

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.

Re: [backstage] Techcrunch UK...

On 12/14/06, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Soap opera for geeks. Usual blogging 'he said she said' storm in a teacup rubbish we've all become accustomed to, where personal publishing enables a situation to get quickly out of hand. I'm reminded of this phrase... "A computer lets y

Re: [backstage] Second Life Event - London 13th Dec

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 w

Re: [backstage] Second Life Event - London 13th Dec

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 ful

Re: [backstage] Second Life Event - London 13th Dec

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

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

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 w

[backstage] Psiphon

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 at the Munk Centre for International Studies that all

[backstage] Web API issue with BBC Parliament

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.getProgrammes&format=simple&detail=schedule&channel_id=BBCParl ... has been returning "Error: Code 152 No matches found"

[backstage] Web API issue with Radio Four?

Hi - there seems to be a problem with the Web API and Radio Four data at the moment:Try http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/bbc.schedule.getProgrammes.html and select Radio Four - I get  "Code 152, no matches found". Other radio and TV channels seem to be OK.Probably just temorary, but thoug

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage Widget entries

On 11/2/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I have put up the 9 entries we received for the widget contest.http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/11/bbc_backstage_w.html Don't forget we will be announcing the winners at the Backstage Bash on Monday, but if your not there we w

Re: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts

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

Re: Take Scag: [backstage] Witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts

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 l

Re: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots

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

Re: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots

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

Re: [backstage] BBC weather IM bots

cation. HTH,Mario.On 10/26/06, 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 O

[backstage] BBC weather IM bots

Using Mike's location OPML (see http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml) and the BBC weather feeds, the following experimental IM bots should now be running: MSN:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM:  bbcweatherJabber/GTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]They're very simple - add them as a new contact and say hello

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

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 & his

[backstage] Re: BBC news ticker in Second Life

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.

Re: [backstage] Hi... what news do you want today?

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..

[backstage] Add google gadgets to your own site

Google have just released functionality to embed their gadgets in your own site: http://www.google.com/press/annc/synd_gadgets.htmlSo if you're interested to use the BBC now/next gadget in your site, open http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url="">. You can tweak the display setting there bef

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

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

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

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 in second life briefly.   Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you co

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

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 secon

[backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

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 i

Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules

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

Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules

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

Re: [backstage] World Service Schedules

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

[backstage] Re: *new* Backstage supremo

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 Se

Re: [backstage] Feeds & APIs page down again - fixed

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.

Re: [backstage] Screen Scraping Advice ...

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  

[backstage] Web API down?

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.

Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!

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

[backstage] BBC now/next modules using the BBC web API

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 http://bbcmodules.c

Re: [backstage] Changes to the TV-Anytime data feed

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', 'urn:tva:metadata:200

Re: [backstage] An API to our schedules

ttp://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.uknam

Re: [backstage] An API to our schedules

Very nice!Not sure if others agree, but I have 2 (admittedly small-ish) suggestions related to bbc.schedule.getProgrammes (http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/api/bbc.schedule.getProgrammes.html ) in particular:- currently the response formats available are simple or TV-Anytime. I think it'd be n

[backstage] problem with TV-Anytime feeds

Hi, today's TV-Anytime feeds isn't working - all the individual channel xml files contain the headers only, no actual programme content.. Thanks, Mario. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.ht

Re: [backstage] Best Mapping API

On 3/29/06, Ian Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The UK post code data is all copyrighted/protected/owned.  Unlike the USzip code data, which the geocodingAPIs, like yahoo's, also use.Amazes me how much the UK can stiffle creativity sometimes. ... see also the Guardian's campaign: http://www.f

Re: [backstage] EasyUtil Recommendations API

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..

[backstage] JRS (Jabber RSS Service) with Persian feeds

Hi all,related to the Persian IM theme (but Jabber-specific), I've been thinking about other means of providing news feeds via IM, and found a Jabber RSS service ( http://jrs.jabberstudio.org) that could serve as an easier/more stable alternative to a Jabber bot (and also has the advantage of servi

[backstage] Persian news IM bot now on Jabber (and other updates)

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

[backstage] Re: IM Persian news bot

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 w

[backstage] Re: IM Persian news bot

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 c

[backstage] IM Persian news bot

Following a conversation with Dan Brickley, who pointed me to Ian Forrester's post on BBC Persian being filtered in Iran (see http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/culture/?permalink=BBC-Persian-filtered-out-of-Iran-what-can-we-do.html), I am now running a first version of a Persia

[backstage] Today's TV-Anytime tar is broken

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.

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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 f

Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

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

[backstage] MSN newsflash bot (update)

Hi all,Sorry for spamming the entire list, this only really concerns users of my MSN newsflash bot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):I made some changes to the MSN newsflash bot in a attempt to work around some problems reported. The issue is actually related to sending out too many messages in too short a time

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

On 2/10/06, James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, "Copyright Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting..." is a bitredundant.  Also, it doesn't give a year, which is required for a validcopyright notice.  Just a minor nit.I just picked that up from the entry of the RSS xml itself..

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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 abl

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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. Sometime

Re: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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

[backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM

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 regis

Re: [backstage] backstage IM bots

On 2/6/06, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks David.   Nice suggestion, and I've just implemented a message along these lines for 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, sho

Re: [backstage] backstage IM bots

Thanks David.   Nice suggestion, and I've just implemented a message along these lines for 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

[backstage] backstage IM bots

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 i

Re: [backstage] Would anyone use this?

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. Incidentall

[backstage] Now/next on pageflakes.com

Hi all, I'm pleased to say that the guys at pageflakes.com (currently in pre-alpha) have added a so-called "flake" with the BBC now/next info to their site. This is a port of the live.com gadget/ google modules I posted previously. For those interested, go to http://www.pageflakes.com and click o

[backstage] typo/error in TV-Anytime data

Hi,I think I found a typo/error in the latest TV-Anytime data: In 20051223BBCOne_pi.xml, there's this line... I believe "ADS,SL" should be "AD,S,SL" (or "AD,SL")? The TV::Anytime parser chokes on the ADS...Thanks,Mario.

Re: [backstage] Google homepage module

On 12/16/05, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Found it! It's a firefox problem!!, I decided to finally upgrade (and only broke four extensions;-) ) and now it works fine.good work.Vijay.Vijay,thanks for the feedback. I've had a closer look and managed to tweak the module so it now works on o

Re: [backstage] Google homepage module

On 12/16/05, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Great idea, but for some reason it dosn't work in firefox. At first I thought it didn't work, but checked in IE and found it apparantly working fine. I don't know if this is the problem with your code or the API, as it (and the rest of google per

Re: [backstage] Google homepage module

On 12/15/05, Michael Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I should also mention the advantage of using mine or marios module addons opposed to using rss feeds is that i found google caches the rss feed so the now and next data can be hours out of date, while the modules are live (or near enough liv

[backstage] Google homepage module

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

[backstage] Re: "now/next" via SMS

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-basi

Re: [backstage] RSS feeds for "what's on now/next"

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

Re: [backstage] Is this our Ben..?

I hear the Yorkshire Grey is hastily installing an IRC backchannel in preparation for our meet-up on Monday. Just think of the PR :-)

[backstage] "now/next" via SMS

Sorry to those that are fed up with the "now/next" stuff, but since I'm producing these feeds, I've been thinking of other ways to use them. I haven't seen too many mobile-oriented prototypes here, so thought this may be useful: Text the name of a BBC TV station (no radio stations - yet) to 07781 4

Re: [backstage] backstage IM bot posted on BetaNews

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

Re: [backstage] backstage IM bot posted on BetaNews

On 12/5/05, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: your bot was mentioned on Microsoft Watch!   http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1895724,00.asp Thanks Ian - I didn't find this on Saturday when I was trying to figure out where all the visitors came from (unfortunately, because

[backstage] backstage IM bot posted on BetaNews

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 Technorati

Re: [backstage] "now/next" RSS feeds for radio stations

imilar artists).Hope I haven't rambled too much/off topic, AlOn 12/2/05, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  Due to popular demand (ok, there was one request for it), I have started to> produce "now/next" RSS/Atom feeds for all available radio stations. Full > list of fe

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