Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content
Folks I dont know if anyone is interested in either chatbot technology or virtual worlds for teaching learning. If you are email me direct as we're doing a couple of seminars in london (7/10) brum (13/10) if anyone is interested. Not sure if I should post this here but as we once did a chatbot for backstage.. Apologies if I shouldn't as I don't wish to spam :( Soulla On 30 September 2010 11:15, Alex Cockell a...@acockell.eclipse.co.ukwrote: I'm not personally looking for metadata, but it would be great if some of the open-source players were permitted back into the fold, meaning that VLC and the like could play BBC content... Especially for cpu architectures that Adobe don't support. Oh, and be able to distribute said player plugins in Linux distro repositories. And I want to be able to play content on my n900 again. - Original message - Not sure what you're looking for, but all the metadata that iPlayer pages uses to build a programme page is openly accessible http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/IPlayer_Metadata It can't not be otherwise the javascript on those pages wouldn't work. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Anthony McKale anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk wrote: it uses some of them, but iplayer it's self is created from them too -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk on behalf of Mo McRoberts Sent: Wed 9/29/2010 2:52 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] API into iPlayer content On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 14:23, Anthony McKale anthony.mck...@bbc.co.uk wrote: yah the feeds aren't https/firewall protected so i'm guessing no one should mind or at least it'll be a lesson to them if they didn't want folks accessing them If memory serves either the EMP SWF itself or the supporting JS makes use of them, which would require their visibility. I could be wrong, though -- I can't for the life of me recall how I came to believe this to be the case, so I could just be making things up. M. - 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/ - 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/ -- * * Soulla Stylianou Client Director DADEN LIMITED *DADEN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS - 7 OCT LONDON 13 OCT B'HAM 2010http://www.daden.co.uk/events/daden_immersive_technology_sem.html * e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 250 5678 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk t: http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou LinkedIN:http://uk.linkedin.com/in/soulla sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life.
Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective
Jon/Phil great stories. can anyone trump? Soulla On 10 May 2010 15:57, Phil Lewis backst...@linuxcentre.net wrote: I managed to get into a private corporate champagne buffet at InfoSec Europe/London a couple of years ago by just speaking on my mobile while I walked past the security reception. Wouldn't be quite so funny except that the reception was for invited CISSP members only and I wasn't a member or invited. The champagne always tastes better this way. - Phil Lewis On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:14 +0100, Soulla Stylianou wrote: fantastic story. Made me giggle. Great. How long ago was that? What did you come to see? Wonder if anyone can better it. Soulla On 6 May 2010 12:59, Jon Knight j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Soulla Stylianou wrote: hmm. I could see a challenge in the offing if it wasn't likely to cause security breaches. How far can one person go on either a) a bbc backstage lanyard b) a bbc backstage t-shirt. No BBC connection but a mate and I once blagged our way into a show at the NEC with a walkie talkie, a large cable crimping tool and a reel of old thick Ethernet cable. He walked ahead looking official and chatting on the walkie talkie whilst I plodded along behind with the tool in hand and the cable slung over my shoulder. Security held the barrier open for us and we just smiled and nodded as we walked through... :-) The best bit was the look one the face of one of the barcode wander who frequent such shows when he realised we had no barcodes for him to scan and thus no way for him to send us pointless spam. :-) :-) - 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/ - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 250 5678 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou LinkedIN: Soulla Stylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life.
Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective
fantastic story. Made me giggle. Great. How long ago was that? What did you come to see? Wonder if anyone can better it. Soulla On 6 May 2010 12:59, Jon Knight j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Soulla Stylianou wrote: hmm. I could see a challenge in the offing if it wasn't likely to cause security breaches. How far can one person go on either a) a bbc backstage lanyard b) a bbc backstage t-shirt. No BBC connection but a mate and I once blagged our way into a show at the NEC with a walkie talkie, a large cable crimping tool and a reel of old thick Ethernet cable. He walked ahead looking official and chatting on the walkie talkie whilst I plodded along behind with the tool in hand and the cable slung over my shoulder. Security held the barrier open for us and we just smiled and nodded as we walked through... :-) The best bit was the look one the face of one of the barcode wander who frequent such shows when he realised we had no barcodes for him to scan and thus no way for him to send us pointless spam. :-) :-) - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 250 5678 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou LinkedIN: Soulla Stylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life. - 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] A Five year retrospective
hmm. I could see a challenge in the offing if it wasn't likely to cause security breaches. How far can one person go on either a) a bbc backstage lanyard b) a bbc backstage t-shirt. Not that I am suggesting peeps try it out - other than a hypothetical musing on a Tuesday.. Soulla On 4 May 2010 11:50, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: :) I can only imagine. Although I did hear about a person getting backstage on a large gig using v3 of the backstage tshirt. Secret[] Private[] Public[x] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Soulla Stylianou Sent: 30 April 2010 19:10 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective Ooh I have a fab bbcbackstage pass lanyard I use to get me in out of our offices I had it on whilst doing lunchtime shop. I got a few positive comments about it :) can you imagine whY a tshirt would do :) lol Happy bank hols people Soulla Sent from my iPhone On 30 Apr 2010, at 17:29, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: Wow! Tempting :) Secret[] Private[x] Public[] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ -Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner- backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Jim Tonge Sent: 29 April 2010 18:05 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective I'll fill in one for a t-shirt: I'll even trade you for a (soon to be collector's item) Blast one! On 25 Apr 2010, at 00:54, Mr I Forrester wrote: 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 m...@nevali.net wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 16:15, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote: If only there was a free tshirt at the end of it Are you implying that there might be some sort of stockpile of t-shirts that Mr Forrester may be eager to offload...? - 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/ -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 - 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/ Jim - 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/ - 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/ - 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/ - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 250 5678 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou LinkedIN: Soulla Stylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life.
Re: [backstage] Lunchtime feedback idea
Lol. This has made me laugh. Excellent idea. I would have used this when listening to radio 1 yesterday (was it Greg Norman talking to Alex Krotowski and calling Second Life a game! I was ranting at the radio wondering why Alex didnt correct him in that its not technically a game as per the other stuff they were discussing. You can't win anything in SL and similar genre VW aremorphing into serious business/collaboration tools. So yes Cow pat away. Love this idea. Soulla 2009/9/30 J.P.Knight j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk Whilst working back from grabbing some sarnies with some collegues this lunchtime we were discussing politicans being interviewed on Radio 4 and how evasive and downright dodgy some of them (most of them? :-) ) sound. One of my chums then hit on a cunning wheeze for providing feedback to radio listeners that are using DAB radios or the web which we all rather liked. The basic idea was to take short messages from listeners (SMS, tweets, button clicks on the web, etc) when they thought that someone on air was spouting nonsense/evading the question/answering questions he'd rather he'd been asked/etc (we used a more bovine effluent related term during our discussion but I doubt that would be acceptable on the BBC! ;-) ). These could then be turned into a real time indication of listener dissatisfaction with the answers being given, and maybe displayed on the displays of the DAB radios, as well as on the Radio 4 website. Indeed the web site could have graphs of bovine effulent levels during the day, week, month, year, etc so that you could spot when there'd been a particularly heavy burst of nonsense being spouted by someone on the wireless, possibly with hyperlinks to iplayer programmes so that you could nip back in time and hear what caused the listeners to cry foul. - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life.
Re: [backstage] Programatic searching of /programmes
I know we have a chatbot that tells you what's on the telly built for Backstage eons ago. Don't think its what you're looking for but its fun to ask the chatbot whats on tonight etc :) http://www.daden2.co.uk/chatbots/livebots/charlotte.html Personally I prefer speaking to Halo http://www.daden2.co.uk/chatbots/livebots/halo_ajax_sitepal.html have fun Soulla 2009/2/18 Martin Poppy Hatfield mar...@moppy.co.uk On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Andy stude.l...@googlemail.com wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of sending a query such as Top Gear and getting back b006mj59 and preferably the name of the programme incase of partial matches. I did something like this a while ago with yahoo pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/mart/programmecode Dunno if it's any help to you. MCH - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Creators of Daden Navigator - the first Web Browser for Second Life ( http://www.daden.co.uk/navigator)
Re: [backstage] Twittering on
Actually a lot of tweeters complain about the likes of Chris Moyles et al moving into twitter! Soulla :) 2009/2/9 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org Ian Forrester wrote: The really cool kids are on both right? I refer the honourable gentleman to the smiley I appended at the conclusion of my previous statement. ;-) I think Twitter has the more famous people on it. Surely it's the same as when Radio presenters couldn't help but chat about there Myspace pages all the time? Every bar I go into now a days, there's talk about Youtube, Facebook and sometimes Twitter anyway. Twitter is breaking through to the mainstream. It's a big enough phenomenon that ignoring it would be the extraordinary thing. - Rob. -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Creators of Daden Navigator - the first Web Browser for Second Life ( http://www.daden.co.uk/navigator)
Re: [backstage] Twittering on
for me I have made some excellent connections via twitter both for work purposes and for personal. I now have a modest number of followers and I follower an equal number of people. I have connected on a social level with Greeks/Cypriots around the globe who are interested in Web 2.0, twitterers in my region and people who are interested in our Second Life work. In fact on a better scale than linked in. I also, I have to admit, follow the likes of Stephen Fry and @wossy. I even followed Russell Brand just to see how quickly his number of followers would rise over the hour, two hours and 24hrs etc. I'm now connected to a wider audience of people which reflect my interests and my local community and have in turn met some of them either in Second Life and in Real Life. As a result of a twitter we found out that we'd been mentioned in dispatches by a presenter at an Ideas Performance event, I twittered back who then asked me to write a blog post. As fortune would have it I was meeting the client for a coffee and between the two of us we responded http://ideaperformance.com/2009/01/27/birmingham-and-second-life/ all within an hour of the first tweet. Now thats what I call magic! Soulla :) 2009/2/9 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org Duncan Barclay wrote: I have to admit that I generally don't see the point of twitter. You could have fitted that into a twitter message and reached a much wider audience. ;-) - Rob. -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Creators of Daden Navigator - the first Web Browser for Second Life ( http://www.daden.co.uk/navigator)
Re: [backstage] Twittering on
I must admit I took one look at identi.ca and came straight out again. It just looks messy compared to twitter. Perhaps I should take a second glance. Saying that my twitter feeds my facebook page and I generally don't go into facebook anymore although when I do I get a number of messages from people who have responded to a comment I've made on twitter not on facebook! :) PS Morning all. Snowing up here - again! :( 2009/2/10 Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk Dave Crossland wrote: 2009/2/9 Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk: The really cool kids are on both right? Given that identi.ca can now supply Twitter and Facebook with messages automatically itself - just pop in your login details - this isn't as cool as it sounds. ;p Yeah. Because giving your login details to another completely unrelated site is completely cool. It astonishes me how many supposedly clued-up IT people are happy to break this basic security rule. Dave... - 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/ -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Creators of Daden Navigator - the first Web Browser for Second Life ( http://www.daden.co.uk/navigator)
