Posts about BBC
Published on 18 October 2005 in BBC, BBC, BBC red button, interactive television, work
A month ago I blogged about a project we'd launched on BBCi on Satellite where the result would be that the average user wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between what was there before, and what was there now.
Published on 5 September 2005 in BBC, BBC, bbc.co.uk
I'm rather saddened to hear via the old currybet.net, of the death of the bbc.co.uk Big Red Button.
Published on 30 July 2005 in BBC, BBC, BBC red button, bbc.co.uk
Okay I'll admit it. I have big red button envy. I want a big red button of my own that will rush BBCi into breaking news mode too.
Published on 25 July 2005 in BBC, BBC, bbc.co.uk
What with one thing and another, Friday turned out to be a pretty hectic day at work and as such, I completely forgot about asking if the big red button, is actually big and red.
Published on 21 July 2005 in BBC, BBC, BBC red button, bbc.co.uk, interactive television, internet
The bbc.co.uk homepage has an option of a 'big red button' which BBC News can use to publish a news story into the main promo slot. One press of the button and it all happens in a flash. Over on BBCi, we do things a bit more manually.
Published on 12 July 2005 in BBC, BBC, internet
The BBC's new Open Source portal went live today, giving the public a single site to look at for all the software projects that the BBC has released under various open source projects.
Published on 2 June 2005 in BBC, BBC, BBC Future Media and Technology, BBC red button, bbc.co.uk, interactive television
Having had a few similar conversations on this recently...
Published on 23 May 2005 in BBC, BBC, industrial action, work
With todays strike at the BBC naturally being a story I'm interested in, I thought I'd keep an eye on the press and websites for some interesting quotes.
Published on 11 May 2005 in BBC, Web Development, backstage.bbc.co.uk, BBC, bbc.co.uk, web development
Well you didn't have to wait long. Backstage.bbc.co.uk went into public beta today. Pretty much everything I said about opening up the News and Sport feeds to do cool things with, applies also for the plethora of feeds listed on backstage.bbc.co.uk - be it the extensive travel information available, or the Doctor Who RSS feed.
Published on 10 May 2005 in BBC, Web Development, backstage.bbc.co.uk, BBC, bbc.co.uk, web development, XML feeds
A press release about RSS feeds isn't going to set the world alight. One that starts off telling you to go off and reuse the feed in exciting ways might just.