The team would like to .
When: 6:30pm Monday 12th December 2005
Where: in Langham Street, London
We’ve been simply – so please allow us to toast your efforts and hopefully get to know you all a little better! It’s also an opportunity for you to meet your fellow backstage.bbc.co.uk enthusiasts, and of course get a chance to chat to ´óÏó´«Ã½ folk too.
is located behind ´óÏó´«Ã½ Broadcasting House, and is a short walk from Oxford Circus, Goodge Street and Great Portland Street underground stations.
The Yorkshire Grey Pub
46 Langham Street
London W1W 7AX
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If you would like to attend - where you will also find the , etc.
I hope you will be able to make it!
Ben Metcalfe
Project Lead,
The has launched their own site to champion remixing of their content – unofficially dubbed “The Mashington Post�.
The aims of “� is to spotlight cool stuff people have mashed up with WP content and to promote their RSS feeds.
Welcome to the mash-up party, Washington Post!
Is it possible to get a feed for all enviromental news. Or perhaps just a feed of
A lot of the time I would just like to quickly view what it online NOW and what's going to be on next, at a glance. Like the teletext service.
An RSS feed would be perfect for this, particularly if I could integrate it with my personal google homepage.
Example:
´óÏó´«Ã½1: Now: 20:00 - 21:00 - The News
´óÏó´«Ã½1 Next: 21:00 - 23:00 - Film: A Random Film
´óÏó´«Ã½2: Now:
´óÏó´«Ã½2: Next:
etc...
By Ben
I’ve just come off stage here at the in Brighton. I was talking about and it’s involvement in the Web2.0 community. I also gave the first public demo of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Programme Catalogue project, which and are currently working on (that project is hopefully due to be launched in beta in the new year).
There’s a great crowd of people here at d.construct – perhaps 80 or so. We’ve been listening to speakers ranging from AJAX experts through to the representatives of other sites with a Web2.0 presence (such as from ).
My presentation from the event is available here.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Website is currently running a .
Promoted as "Have your say: Are you mashing, remixing and creating on the web?", it’s an opportunity for you to tell the typically-mainstream ´óÏó´«Ã½ News audience about the kinds of things you are up to – whether it be on , Creative Archive or maybe somewhere else that’s not ´óÏó´«Ã½.
It’s also an opportunity to check out the recently-launched Slashdot-style community space on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Website. Now reactively moderated, users can rate the merits of each other’s posts – bubbling up good comments to the surface and ensuring the debate flows in the right directions.
Today I'm (Jem) in Bradford taking part in a launch day for what we're calling the . The strapline is "seeking regional companies to imagine the future of bbc.co.uk". Its a pilot project to commission early stage prototypes from indies and developers in the North West, Yorkshire and London. We'll be reporting on its progress on Backstage and eventually the products that this project will help support will be hosted here. There are further events in North West and London later this month.
Two quick things:
Matt Locke (Head of Innovation at bbc.co.uk) who is running the events has just cited these Backstage prototypes; Davy Mitchell's , and Mario Menti's searching to illustrate how the Backstage community has developed and implemented some great ideas.
, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Controller, Internet said as part of his presentation.
"The ´óÏó´«Ã½ needs to break out of its website and be part of the internet. We need to make our solutions available to everyone else."
