Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective

I'm pretty sure we can find you a new backstage Tshirt Brian On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 16:35 +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote: > The backstage t-shirts I have all have the old logo, that's what I'm > saying. > > On 20 April 2010 16:28, Mo McRoberts wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 16:15, Brian

[backstage] A Five year retrospective

Hi All, Just in case you have not seen the blog (http://xrl.us/bhha3j), missed the tweet and dents... Its almost 5 years since Backstage launched into the public at OpenTech05 by Ben Metcalfe. Since then a lot of things have happened and changed. Who would have thought the political parties would

[backstage] Happy Christmas BBC Backstage List

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Re: [backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

Just to be clear, I'm not saying we're not allowed to say anything, its just not clear what we can be said. I've heard so much about Canvas over the last year, I'm not even sure whats public, whats hear-say and whats actually secret (if anything) :) As some one said its a hot potato. I've just st

Re: [backstage] mailing list subs form is broken

Aw thanks Steve! And a warning to you all, I do read the mailing list but only drop in comments now and then. If we get long threads like the Freedom one, I'll let it run till you all start insulting each other ;) On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 23:48 +0100, Steve Jolly wrote: > Fearghas McKay wrote: > > S

Re: [backstage] Re: Sky hits out at Project Canvas

I think and i'm not sure, so don't quote me on this. Because the Canvas spec is still going through the BBC Trust (?) it would be unwise for anyone within the BBC to really comment deeply on it. I'll double check when I'm off holiday Remember when backstage released a load of documents for the BB

RE: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 15:50 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: > Moreover, you just *know* that within months of any broadcast flag > implementation, the more creative technological tinkerers will have > subverted the flag entirely using commonplace/free equipment and > software. Like region coding, b

Re: [backstage] License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 22:04 +0100, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: > > I think that there's going to be a lot of unhappy freeview HDTV owners > wondering why the TV they have recently bought isn't picking up the > new HD channels when they're launched (especially as the TV was > probably sold as "H

[backstage] idea: Allow access to one's complete iPlayer viewer history

Another good idea, this time from nick shanks, http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/idea/29/ At present, the iPlayer provides a short sidebar listing one's most recently viewed programmes, I wish to: a) See what I have watched b) See when I have watched it c) See how many times I wat

[backstage] BBC Backstage on IT Conversations

I've been on holiday for the last few weeks but just before I went, I did record a interview with Jon Udell. Its now available on IT Conversations for everyone to hear - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4228.html I think I got a little confused when we got down to the Taxonomy quest

Re: [backstage] Fwd: Free Transcripts on NPR.org now

Hi Dan, nice idea. Would be great if you could add it to ideas.welcomebackstage.com, just so we got it in a better form for sharing and linking to. Cheers, Ian On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: > NPR transcripts are now - I read - easier to find. I had a quick look > aroun

Re: [backstage] R&DTV launched

thing not followed in other > p2p contexts. > > Avoid too many formats - settle on a couple & stay with them > settle on a flexible filename format that follows good practice. > Consider putting the name of your 'group' in the filename: > > [BBC_RDTV]Ep

Re: [backstage] R&DTV launched

e bbc just done the biggest u-turn in history?! jees next we'll be hearing that france has legalised p2p. well done for a change aunty." On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:16 +0100, James Montgomerie wrote: > On 9 Apr 2009, at 22:57, Mr I Forrester mailbox-at-cubicgarden.com | > BBC Lists|

Re: [backstage] R&DTV launched

> > > > Regards, > > Nico Morrison > > __ > > microni...@gmail.com > > Mob: 07875 596 316 > > Skype: nicomorrison > > http://nicomorrison.com > > __ > > > > 2009/4/10 Mr I Forres

Re: [backstage] R&DTV launched

> microni...@gmail.com > Mob: 07875 596 316 > Skype: nicomorrison > http://nicomorrison.com > __ > > 2009/4/10 Mr I Forrester : > > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:08 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote: > >> On 09/04/2009, Mr I Forrester wrote:

Re: [backstage] R&DTV launched

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 01:08 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote: > On 09/04/2009, Mr I Forrester wrote: > > Ian and Team, > > Congratulations on the launch of R&D TV. I've just watched the first > episode (222MiB Ogg version) and enjoyed it a lot, so will be looking > forwar

[backstage] R&DTV launched

Hi All, Just in case you've missed it this piece of news in the middle of a pretty hectic week. We launched a project called R&D TV which is a pilot project out of BBC Backstage and BBC RAD Labs. There's plenty of information on the Backstage blog and the official readme file - http://ftp.kw.bbc.

Re: [backstage] IE8 ships today

/landing/chrome/beta/ > > 2009/3/19 Mr I Forrester > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2009/03/ready_for_ie8.html > > Generally the view is very positive from Mix09 but it would > be... > However there is lots of thoughts abou

[backstage] IE8 ships today

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2009/03/ready_for_ie8.html Generally the view is very positive from Mix09 but it would be... However there is lots of thoughts about people real experience of the web when they already have weird activex stuff installed already. Cheers, Ian - Sent via th

Re: [backstage] BBC5.TV

LOL :) On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:37 +0100, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Richard Lockwood wrote: > > > OMFG > > Drat! I missed that - did Anthony Reorganize His Department Again ?! > But four letter words^H^H^H^H^Hdepartment acronyms are good ! > > > - TEH CONSPIR

Re: [backstage] The BBC as sheep... and irresponsible ones too

> Richard Lockwood wrote: > In this day and age it *is* important to teach people about electronic > security. > > This "story" completely fails to do so. There is something you could argue the BBC should be doing around this. There was a suggestion that Webwise 2.0 could be perfect for this...

[backstage] 4th Oekonux Conference - March 27th-29th in Manchester

Sounds like OpenTech but much more focused around free software and free culture. Its also on our backstage calendar which you can also view directly now - http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/node/11 --- Free Software and Beyond

Re: [backstage] Twittering on

Feel strongly that the BBC should use something else instead of Twitter, how about voting or offering your support here. http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/ideatorrent/idea/16/ Cheers, Ian - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co

[backstage] Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source

Seen this in my mailbox a few times today, sure you will all find this interesting... "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Make the primary operating system used in state schools free and open source" http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

[backstage] Mapping the World of Piracy

Via NewTeeVee - http://newteevee.com/2009/02/05/mapping-the-world-of-piracy/ - Enjoy! The folks at the Pirate Bay released a Google Maps mash-up Wednesday that illustrates its worldwide user base, with exact percentages by country. It’s a pretty fascinating project in that it helps to dispel cert

[backstage] BarCampLondon6 announced

Hi All, With all the talk about Digital Britian, he's a great chance to discuss and maybe organise something (yeah not the best segway) BarCampLondon6 has been announced at the Guardian's new offices near Kings Cross. Saturday 28th - Sunday 29th March 2009 http://www.barcamplondon.org/ - For muc

Re: [backstage] If you had a ton of content to freely distribute

Well without giving too much away, the techies are in control on this one. On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:34 -0800, Steve Jolly wrote: > Ian Forrester wrote: > > Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all > > the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video,

Re: [backstage] BBC iPlayer download on Linux and Mac using AIR

Sorry my mistake, I started on the Caching thread and have not caught up with it :x Ian On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 21:57 +, David Greaves wrote: > Mr I Forrester wrote: > > No one seems to have picked up on the launch of the iPlayer download AIR > > application for Wind

Re: [backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

Sure will do, but you all know its Durpal and Idea torrent software running on a beta server. I'm more concerned with what this software could enable rather that how it looks at this moment. Do keep reporting any bugs however. On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:51 +, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/12

[backstage] Your ideas are now finally welcomed

Ok so a little while back we kind of launched or announced that we were building out some of the core parts of the backstage site into ideas.welcomebackstage.com (please note the url will change one day soon). ideas is based on the Ubuntu idea torrent project and we're happy to be supporting more

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

So one of the problems with the bbc reader, I've been told. Was that it never included a powered by backstage.bbc.co.uk. Please remember to include this attribution otherwise your prototype sits outside the backstage licence. Around the use of logos, is pretty much as James has said, although I di

[backstage] BBC iPlayer download on Linux and Mac using AIR

No one seems to have picked up on the launch of the iPlayer download AIR application for Windows, Linux, OSX. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/introducing_iplayer_deskto.html I wonder why? maybe I should save it for a personal blog post... Cheers Ian - Sent via the backstage.bbc.

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

That was certainly news for us at backstage. I'm going to follow this up and hopefully have some better news soon. On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:50 +, Martin Deutsch wrote: > Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)... > > > Andy Alcorn is a student whose hobby is computer pro

[backstage] BBC Backstage Networking Bashes

Hi All, Thanks to everyone who came out to the BBC Backstage networking bashes. Of course for the first time, we had two events one in Manchester and one in London. Across the country we have a rough count of about 370 people attend and everyone enjoyed the events. For those who missed the events

Re: [backstage] Iplayer the best video experience online?

Don't forget you can all take part in the iplayer birthday celebrations. More details here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/take_part_in_bbc_iplayer_day_t.html > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives

Re: [backstage] Excuse the rant....

Yes we've all experienced this time to time. I have this at every Holiday Inn hotel I stay at. On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:17 +, Peter Bowyer wrote: > iPlayer thinks that the Hilton Hotel, Leeds is outside the UK. > Doubtless because Hilton's hotel broadband is provided by 'i-Bahn', > which soun

[backstage] BBC Backstage meets the London Communities Christmas Party

Yes we made the title so long you need to catch your breath mid flow :) Well the tickets are open, so what you waiting for? Details are on upcoming - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1225222 and you can claim your free ticket by going to - http://bbcbackstage.eventwax.com/bbc-backstage-joins-the-l

Re: [backstage] Backstage logo design competition is live!

Good good! On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 07:58 +, Brian Butterworth wrote: > I have a few ideas in process as well. > > On 7 Nov 2008, 8:27 PM, "Alun Rowe" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a design I'm working on... > > On 7 Nov 2008

Re: [backstage] Invite - MiniBar November - Special

Thanks Christian, but were really a text only list. Cheers On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:40 +, Christian Ahlert wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > In November we will have a special format. You can come at 5pm and > > > mix with international web entrepreneurs, who have

Re: [backstage] [ORG-discuss] DRM Free BBC Content on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2008/11/george_wright_r.html Video and Writing for everyone... enjoy! On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:23 +, Rob Myers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ian Forrester wrote: > > I'm trying to get the guys behind this to do a full pi

[backstage] BBC Backstage "Meets the Communities of the North and London" Christmas Party

Hi All, So as mentioned in a previous email, were having our Christmas party on the 13th December. One in London and one in Manchester. The Manchester one is already taking bookings - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1225186 While the London one is just around the corner but we are sorting out th

Re: [backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

Thanks Al, So idea torrent is brainstorm or brainstorm is the ubuntu name for the same thing. I've not setup the filters yet. Odd I'll look into the submit problem, I think it might be permissions again. Cheers On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 01:39 +, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/10/28 M

[backstage] BBC Backstage ideas store

So carrying on from the previous email. Ideas store is ready to go. We thought about strapping down everything but it seems pointless, so instead once you setup a user account you can do quite a bit and if not we tweak the permissions so it works as you guys expect. So I urge you try it out and r

[backstage] Changes at Backstage

Hi All, Things at Backstage have been quite hectic but also quiet to the public. So whats been going on? Well here's a list which I think you will find interesting. 1. New BBC Backstage Blog with comments 2. New BBC Backstage Logo Competition 3. PA Press Event API via Backstage 4. New ideas stor

Re: [backstage] iPhone iPlayer

This is what kills me about iphone users, they think this stuff is new. Not only can you do this on WinMo but also over Bluetooth :p On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 02:39 +0100, Jim Tonge wrote: > Jailbreak, then use PDAnet (available through Cydia). works over ad- > hoc wifi network. > > On 13 Oct 2008,

[backstage] Interview with Jonathan Schwartz

Hi All, We were able to grab a quick interview with Jonathan Schwartz CEO of Sun Microsystems a little while ago. Due to problems with Audacity its taken a while to finally edit it down, but finally its here. its all recorded at there end, hence why I sound very muffled. I tried to ask the questi

Re: [backstage] Google developer day 2008

As far as I know so far, nope. But I'm sure once I read through the thousands of emails I've avoided due to being on holiday we might have a different story. Cheers Ian Gitesh Khodiyar wrote: > Registration for this years UK event is now open: > > http://code.google.com/events/developerday/2008

Re: [backstage] Dailysnooze - Vista Gadgets - Homepage

Great stuff Fraser. If I had a start page, I would use it. Cheers, posted on the backstage prototypes now [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > For the past 6 or 7 years > (http://web.archive.org/web/20030711135006/dailysnooze.com/en/) I have run > http://www.dailysnooze.com - mainly because I wa

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software talk: Ian Forrester, BBC Backstage - 22nd July

Quick reminder to people in and around Manchester... This is tonight... Tim Dobson wrote: > Ian seems to be getting to know Manchester! :) > I hope that some of you can make it! > Tim > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/7/11 > Subject: [Fsuk-

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So a little history I was approached by a large company to run a competition based on there technology. The base technology was xml but required there software to play it back. I did turn down the offer for many of the reasons brought up on the list

Re: [backstage] Quick idea for BBC News video

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not so sure, its actually a good idea I think. A simple querystring element which starts the video as soon as possible. I'll put it in our ideas section, including your reason why not :) Peter Bowyer wrote: > You pretty much talked yourself out o

[backstage] OpenTech 2008

Don't forget backstagers If your in London and having sleepless nights after mashed. Theres OpenTech 2008 on 5th July. Look out we may have something very special to announce at Opentech 2008! - Open Tech 2008 spon

[backstage] The TechCrunch BBC Debate

From yesterdays debate, http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/25/live-blog-bbc-techcrunch-debate/ Videos going up here - http://cubicgarden.blip.tv Cheers - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.htm

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

YES!! Just for the lazy, "One thing conspicuously missing from the current iPlayer site is the provision of RSS feeds . For those who want to consume our content via their RSS reader, or who want to create mashups

Re: [backstage] Protoype - News Mash Up

Thanks guys, Any more prototypes which people want to send in, are best sent to the mailing list too. Cheers Richard Askew wrote: First Prototype submission too! Some months ago I asked the guys on here to help me out with the gathering BBC content so that I could put my application into p

Re: [backstage] Backstage's future plans

Yes and the URL of backstage isn't going to change by the way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah looked a little more and worked that out. Silly me! Looks nice. On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:04:19 +0100, "Dave Crossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/6/24 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm presuming t

Re: [backstage] Backstage's future plans

e? On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:32:51 +0100, Mr I Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I know a whole load of you missed out on Mashed, which was a great success and I know your all kicking yourselves. But during the event, I also gave a presentation which included some things we bee

Re: [backstage] Backstage's future plans

Capital letters? Why? :) No only kidding, will see what I can do Richard Lockwood wrote: Hope you're feeling better Ian; can I make a request please? Can we have some captal letters at the start of sentences in the text on the green background please? Please?? Cheers, Rich. >

[backstage] Backstage's future plans

Hi All, I know a whole load of you missed out on Mashed, which was a great success and I know your all kicking yourselves. But during the event, I also gave a presentation which included some things we been up to and are working on... Rather that post the presentation, I thought I'd post a q

Re: [backstage] Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] Ashley Highfield of Beeb reviews Linux after Jono Bacon visits him

So far Ashley's review has got - 635 Diggs, so help us digg it up some more http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ashley_Highfield_BBC_executive_Reviews_Ubuntu Only takes 2 seconds. Brian Butterworth wrote: I saw this. It made me happy! 2008/6/20 Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:

Re: [backstage] Event: Adventure in Technology

Shevek wrote: Hi, It was great to see you all at Mashed, thank you for making it even better than last year! We're organising a technology festival in Bristol this Saturday 28th June. The web site is at http://www.techadventure.org/ and contains details and directions. We want as many differen

Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate

Peter Bowyer wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ Yep I assumed everyone just knew about it too. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - Sent via

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

Now we can start looking at some more of our RSS output being full text James Cridland wrote: 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. - Sent via the back

Re: [backstage] List admin

I have removed the email address. Sorry for the delay in this people. Morris, Nat wrote: Hi, Is someone able to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] taken off the list to stop their autoresponder bot flooding the list? Its replying to every post and itself! Cheers, Nat, - Sent via the backstage.bbc.c

Re: [backstage] iPlayer - turning it up to 11

Talking of which my Pacemaker.net DJ tool also has headphones which goes up to 11. its always the little things which raise a smile. Iain Wallace wrote: My sentiments exactly. It's little things like this that remind me that I love the Beeb :) On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Chris Riley <[EM

Re: [backstage] Thinking Digital conference

I am going to double check with a couple of the people behind Thinking Digital but I think its pretty safe to say this whole thing is spam. The videos for thinking digital were up online as the conference finished on Friday. There will be a podcast but once again they will be hosted else where

[backstage] Thinking Digital conference

Hi All, Backstage is sponsoring a few a events around the thinking digital conference, if your up in the North East of England and want to hang out (lobbycom), chat with some great speakers. Drop into the Sage in Gateshead. We're running a geekdinner on Friday night which leads nicely into th

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

Gareth Davis wrote: Peter Bowyer wrote: On 16/04/2008, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be the first order of the day - a beanbag for all > staff and free beer in the meeting rooms. Last.fm has the ballpit (with webcams) and the BPI has the free beer

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

vijay chopra wrote: But how many times have you voted for yourself? ;p On 16/04/2008, *Mr I Forrester* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Cridland, i'm hot on your heels Actually I only voted for another person once, thought it would be cheeky t

Re: [backstage] full posts in BBC rss feeds?

Hi Frankie, Data is in a need of refresh, agreed. Reason why BBC news don't do full text feeds is because of rights involving the content. Thats the simple answer, but I'm happy to discuss in more detail if you like? frankie roberto wrote: This might have been asked before, but... ...can t

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

Andrew Bowden wrote: So I highly recommend everyone goes there and votes for the guy at the end of the list ;-) Mr Cridland is getting far too much support, we need to put him back in his place. Do it or I'll convert the backstage list to a MSN group ;-) You've been warned Well that'

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

No no, Redbull on tap... That would boost productivity :) Cridland, i'm hot on your heels Matthew Cashmore wrote: There would be lots more beanbags, for one thing. I think beanbags and hammocks should be available in more offices. And perhaps more beer fridges... May lower

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

Peter Bowyer wrote: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/who-should-be-the-next-web-guru-of-the-bbc-vote-now/ Damm your quick! So I highly recommend everyone goes there and votes for the guy at the end of the list ;-) Mr Cridland is getting far too much support, we need to put him back in

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

Come on guys, enough microsoft/adobe jokes. If you could seriously put someone into the position of director of future media and technology who would it be and what qualities would you be looking for? I guess I shouldn't really say who I'd like to see, otherwise it will appear in the guardia

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

This might have got missed by the list... Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks” The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality “a load of bollocks” and claiming he’s already doing deals to deliver some people’s cont

[backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/bbc_highfield_isp_threat/ "Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an all-time low, after the BBC's internet chief Ashley Highfield used a blog post yesterday to tell ISPs to get stuffed - and even threatened to name and shame

Re: [backstage] iPlayer DRM is over?

The comments are tiresome - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/iplayer_linux_stream_download_hack/comments/ Thank goodness for the backstage list eh? This seems a lot better written - http://www.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/ipods/bbc-happy-to-go-drm-free--261475 I'm out of the of

[backstage] Over the Air sign-up now live

Hi All, Seeing how everyone's so obsessed with the iPlayer streams on the iPhone :) I thought you'd all like to know the official sign-up for "Over the Air" has now gone live - http://overtheair.org/blog/?page_id=20 If you don't know what "Over the Air" here's a quick recap. Over the Air, is

Re: [backstage] Own up now, who was this?

Oh thats funny :) lol Matt Barber wrote: Haha On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Iain Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: http://dumpedimage.com/?image=843 :D - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To un

Re: [backstage] RSS Feed Thumbnails Missing

I've fwd'ed on your email, hopefully it will be fixed soon. Fraser Murrell wrote: Hi, I noticed that for all news RSS feeds, the elements that normally provided us with a link to a thumbnail image of a particular article is no longer present.. As of around 11:00 this morning (GMT) they

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

Ok so I spoke to many people and there is no official answer, yet! Yes I know your all waiting with baited for some news but your'll have to wait a little longer it would seem. Till then, I would suggest you don't do anything your mother wouldn't be happy about. :) Cheers

Re: [backstage] iPlayer, DRM, Free Software and the iPhone

I will attempt to get some answers to your questions, although I think the iphone service is only a beta service at the moment? Andy Halsall wrote: This morning I came across the following; Subject: Re: [GeekUp] Fwd: [ORG-discuss] iPlayer DRM is over? From: "Tim Dobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [backstage] BBC Support page

I don't think anyone wants to see live internet operations :) Good suggestion Adam Leach wrote: Just trying to find a support page as i've got a number of errors when accessing the weather page and i've come across this http://www.bbc.co.uk/support/ Shame it isn't a live stream, we could see

Re: [backstage] Undermining iPlayer DRM

Well I knew this was coming... :) Now I'm looking for some really innovative ways to view BBC iplayer content... I think the Xbmc and Wii developers can now go off and build something. Phil Wilson wrote: Have now switched user-agents and am browsing away ;) aaand we're away http://www.

Re: [backstage] Backstage blog comments off?

Because we're moving sites really soon, we've not done anything to the old site. I know its a little crap but honestly the new "shiny" site will allow you to post to all ideas and prototypes and not be hampered by crazy amounts of spam. Phil Wilson wrote: I went to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] One-day Conference To Help Web Developers Address Accessibility in Web 2.0

I don't believe there will be, but ability.net have said they want to do more of them depending on this event. Maybe even even up north Tim. Fearghas McKay wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:24, Tim Dobson wrote: students... (yes, £90 *is* a lot for a student if you add it to travel and accomodatio

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

Thanks to everyone who answered, some really interesting thoughts for DMI and other advanced prototypes. I'm presenting your ideas on Friday, so this is what I have across two slides In-programme timing of generic objects or people Access to the Edit logs of programme makers Access to the scrip

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

I like the idea of this, hard sell but who knows maybe a prototype could bring this to life. David Greaves wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, I was hoping to get a brainstorm of ideas for APIs and Feeds you would love to play with in the near future, while focusing on Vision/TV I got mo

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

Yes awesome Matthew! Phil Wilson wrote: I knocked up a little unsophisticated something: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-iplayer-quick/ :-) This is ace, thanks Matthew. Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ar

Re: [backstage] What would you love to see coming out of BBC Vision in the near future?

Yes I see the "odd" one out :) Tim Dobson wrote: Ian Forrester wrote: I was hoping to get a brainstorm of ideas for APIs and Feeds you would love to play with in the near future, while focusing on Vision/TV After Barcamp I think there are a few ideas in a more generally direction, not just a

Re: [backstage] Request Frequency

Yep if you can cache or database the calls, then great. If not, well the way the BBC infrastructure is set-up, we are supplying a cached copy anyway. I expect we will tell you if it gets out of hand. Cheers Ian Richard Lockwood wrote: Why not database the data the first time it's grabbed in a

[backstage] Coming up for Backstage in 2008, what you may not know....

Hi Guys, So yes I've been meaning to write this post around the time of Christmas but it didn't quite happen. I blame the cheap drink prices in Bristol. -- So as I alluded to in a post about recently, we have set-up a IRC server which will be used for live chats between intern

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

Interesting post with lots to reply back on...but can you post a better formatted version :) What you using, Outlook or something ;-) Cheers Ian Dave Crossland wrote: On 06/01/2008, Tim Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Dave Crossland wrote:> > The other really evil thing about the Adobe Fl

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Dave Crossland wrote: On 05/01/2008, Fearghas McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5 Jan 2008, at 17:38, Dave Crossland wrote: I think that's the point of the meeting that Ian invited the public developer community to; I hope you'll go :-) Whilst that meeting may be convenient f

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of this is documented in that xboxmediacenter.com forum which Ian posted a link to earlier (in fact the starting post of this thread I think), including an executable PHP script for generating the URL for the RTMP stream. Thanks Phil I was going to say the same :)

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Dave Crossland wrote: On 04/01/2008, Barry Carlyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: silly point - "Just in case anyone missed it, there's a bunch of developers trying to bring BBC iPlayer content to the Xbox1 and Wii. The main thread can be found here - http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthr

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Andy wrote: On 04/01/2008, Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You don't need the iPlayer source. All of the heavy lifting on the client is done by Flash itself. Flash is somewhat inefficient as it's adding an extra layer in the way of the hardware. It is also prohibited to use the

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Andy 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 EULA or just not use the streaming ve

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

No thats not a typo. I own a Xbox 1 and its capabilities to playback media via the Xbox media centre is still amazing and leaves everything in its dust. The Xbox1 is also a good test machine to see what would happen if for example you could write scripts on a set top box. Barry Carlyon wrote

Re: [backstage] BBC iplayer on exotic devices

Dave Crossland wrote: On 04/01/2008, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3. My thoughts about bringing the iplayer to other devices was correct. If you don't break the DRM on the download version, re-transcode the streaming version, make the content available outside of the UK (break the

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