An extension to TV (backdated, I think) of the 'pip' scheme for radio broadcasts.
The BBC is to create a web page for every episode of every television programme it has ever prod...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/10/bbc.digitalmedia
Jun 12, 2008
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Details of Ashley Highfield's move, which include the budget he used to hold at BBC
Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of future media and technology, is leaving the corporatio...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/202eab38-09ae-11dd-81bf-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
Apr 14, 2008
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Ashley Highfield sets out his views on who should bear the costs of distributing video online, a...
All content providers could create packages or tiers of HD content optimised for this new standa...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/hidden_costs_of_watching_tv_on.html
Apr 03, 2008
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Someone has worked out how to hack the BBC iPlayer so you can download TV programmes without DRM...
A site to make the In Our Time broadcasts/podcasts more referenceable.
This is a weblog about the BBC Radio 4 programme 'In Our Time', which explores the history of id...
An extension of the BBC/Universal deal (announced two or three years ago) which allows for BBC s...
BBC Worldwide is in talks with a number of independent and major labels over licensing deals to ...
The latest despatch from the frontline of radio innovation at the BBC follows in the mashup foot...
The idea is to take the basic now-playing data from our music radio networks, throw it at the we...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/02/nowplaying_a_visualising_rad.shtml
Feb 04, 2008
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This is an interesting development: making money but also potentially releasing more innovative ...
BBC Worldwide is to focus on developing the corporation's huge archive of music programming from...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/28/bbc.television1
Jan 30, 2008
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Interesting spin on APML. First the BBC Radio Labs created Last.fm profiles for radio stations; ...
Michael from our team has been looking at this from an alternative direction. What if you could ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/01/apml_isnt_just_for_humans.shtml
Jan 26, 2008
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Having been out of the habit of watching TV for five years, the BBC iPlayer just might get me to...
Pop On Trial puts five decades of popular music in the dock to deliver the verdict on which is p...
I probably would use it if I hadn't completely lost the habit of watching anything on television...
More than 3.5 million programmes have been watched by more than a million people using the BBC's...
Large software project is badly organised - shock, horror.
When the BBC embarked on its first concerted effort at delivering internet video - the service w...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/beeb_week_iplayer_comment/
Nov 25, 2007
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PPL have now licensed BBC to include 30 second clips (wow!) of music in their podcasts.
Now we have reached agreement with the PPL (which is a music industry organisation which collect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/music_podcasts.shtml
Nov 20, 2007
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Latest prototype for user-generated input to radio listening.
We looked at something that had two means of participating, what we called "lean forward" and "l...
http://cookinrelaxin.blogspot.com/2007/08/radio-pop.html
Aug 09, 2007
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Critique of the BBC's partnership with Microsoft.
Let’s run it down. The BBC iPlayer needs the latest Microsoft Web browsers (ie7); the latest M...
http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/07/27/bbc-iplayer-a-flawed-gem/
Jul 29, 2007
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How the BBC is now using MusicBrainz data for its artist profiles, and how this will be extended...
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working with Rob Kaye to integrate the MusicBrainz database...
When I can get this on my Mac it will be the end of needing a TV.
"I am fundamentally committed to universality, to getting the BBC iPlayer to everyone in the UK ...
First public beta of annotatable audio from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/findlistenlabel/?programme=allinthemind20070403
May 20, 2007
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So is it just working through due process, or is BBC's technology in a rut?
After years of being technologically ahead of its rivals in both the public and private sector, ...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2079046,00.html
May 15, 2007
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The BBC tags along with Microsoft instead of showing some leadership...
"81 per cent (5,804) said this was very important and a further 5 per cent (355) said it was imp...
May 09, 2007
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Interesting comments and reaction about the lack of classical music downloads.
BBC director general Mark Thompson said he was "delighted" with the decision. But he took issue ...
Is this the next phase of the creative archive or is that blurring into something more general? ...
The BBC is to open up its vast archive of video and audio in an on-demand trial involving more t...
Ah, I'd heard rumour's of a last.fm/BBC link-up, and now here's some evidence and details.
We all love Last.fm. But you can't update your profile with songs as you listen to the radio.. u...
http://fridayforward.com/2006/10/bbc-radio-player-lastfm-yahoo-widget.html
Mar 11, 2007
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Latest redesign of the BBC radio web interface. Another step in the right direction.
This may not be most enormously exciting development to you, but bear with me. It's a big improv...
http://cookinrelaxin.blogspot.com/2007/03/bbc-radio-redesign.html
Mar 11, 2007
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More details on this interesting BBC prototype project.
Here's a proper write-up of the BBC annotatable audio, or is that audio annotation, project that...
http://www.cookinrelaxin.com/2005/12/annotatable-audio-revisited.html
Mar 11, 2007
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