We mentioned to get the dates in you diary - but now the time has come for you to sign up!
will take your applications - the wording on the site is a bit 'official' but that's what happens when lawyers attack.
The event is going to be truly amazing, and (not to mention a whole army of really passionate people at both organisations) have been working our bums off to make sure it's going to be THE event for hackers in Europe. Essentially 400+ developers will descend on on the 16th and 17th of June - there'll be truck loads of pizza, beer, wi-fi and shed loads of help.
The plan is arrive Saturday morning, and listen to some funky people talk about funky stuff, before 24 hours of hacking madness begins - we've got the run of the palace overnight so you can pull apart and build 'till the wee small ours before grabbing a nap in a quiet corner. Once the hacking is over and done with you'll be able to present your ideas to everyone on the main stage - just before we announce the winners and the evening gig starts - the band is MASSIVE - not telling who it is yet (it's not Beck).
We'll be handing out extra tickets for the Sunday night gig - so if you get on the list you'll be able to bring along a couple of friends for that night.
So you have no excuse - if you're part of backstage.bbc.co.uk - then you're right in the middle of the community that will rock this years Hack Day!
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Is there some kind of organisational structure of prototypes and ideas similar to sourceforge or 43things.com that can create more of a group around specific projects? Could there be?
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ is looking for people to join a six-month trial in which 20,000 UK residents will get free access to hundreds of programmes from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archive, including reports of historic events as they happened, ground-breaking documentaries, soaps, action-packed children's shows, sumptuous dramas, and comedy shows that thrilled the nation.
Interested? then you can now register your interest on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Archive site
Not precisely a ´óÏó´«Ã½ hack, Badger will take any RSS feed and package it up nicely into a proxy-free Web badge, via Yahoo's new beta. Here's the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s feed, all badged up and ready to go.
A regional traffic incident site featuring road accidents, roadworks, petrol stations, fuel pricing and user-customisable driving route overlays.
Created as a personal project, using Google Maps API v2 and AJAX techniques, to greatly improve upon ´óÏó´«Ã½'s own traffic incident update page.
Possible improvements include UK-wide fuel station locations, pricing and timeline recording of feed state for later replay.
This is a Google Maps application showing live and historic traffic data from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ TPEG road traffic data. Also includes an 'Accident Blackspots' section which is created by analysing traffic data collected over the last 4 months (and growing).
This has been built as part of a project for my degree course in Engineering. To improve it, I have several ideas which may involve the ´óÏó´«Ã½ weather data as well (perhaps using some machine learning algorithms to find patterns in the relationship between weather and traffic incidents).
This modules uses the Mood News data from my other prototype to give you a daily dose of the selected 'Good News'. Have fun!
In the past I had a that no longer works, and building on
and because google maps now supports geoRss, and the backstage feeds dont do geoRss (something to work on? - maybe) I decided to do it myself. You can now display the traffic data direct on the google maps site. This might be more handy for people who want the geoRss data, but i thought putting it on google was the best way to display it. Direct google link is https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=https://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/travel_data/locations.rss
Another Twitter hack - someone in , so I hooked up a bot to send the day's ´óÏó´«Ã½ London weather to a twitter account every morning at 4am.
It uses to strip out a lot of extraneous info from the feed to make it easier for Twitter to read.
The twitter feed is here: https://twitter.com/londonweather/
A neat improvement would be if the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s weather feed split out the different data - temperature, visibility etc. into different pieces of tagged data within the feed, rather than just a description, date, link - although if I had more time I'd do something interesting with the geodata in there.
The page includes links to all the tools I used, so anyone should be able to hook one of these up for where they live.
Subscribe to iCalendar versions of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ television and radio schedules. Radio programmes have links to the listen again data where available.
With time, I would like to provide a customizable calendar and better integration with the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s video and radio streaming services.
Audio and Music have just launched their Annotatable Audio project. Tristan Ferne has the scoop.
We've just launched Find Listen Label, previously known as Annotatable Audio. It's a tool for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio listeners to segment and annotate radio programmes on the web - wiki style - creating better navigation within the programme by providing segments or chapters and enhancing the findability of the programme by annotating it with descriptions and tags about the content. We've launched this prototype with Radio 4's "All In The Mind" as a partner programme and it will be up for around 4 weeks before we evaluate how well it has worked.
Have a play...
It will start to become really powerful when/if we launch it across many of our programmes and start to use the generated data in other products and sites, and we have plans to open the data up to backstage.
So what things could you build or do with the data from this project. Answers in the or section.
We're all finally back from spinning around the world, and have lots to share and discuss. But till then here's an exclusive video interview with Tim O'Reilly. The interview was lined up by Chris Vallance from the programme, but backstage was able to while Chris recorded the audio.
Enjoy...
Hi backstagers,
Although I've been a fan of backstage and worked on quite a few products seen here I've never posted before so I thought I'd better introduce myself. I work for the ´óÏó´«Ã½, specifically looking after the digital futures of Radio 1, 1Xtra and Teens. I know it's not normal to post about ´óÏó´«Ã½ jobs going here but there are some specific tech roles I thought the backstage community might be interested in.
Basically, the ´óÏó´«Ã½, like other broadcasters, knows it's got loads to do if it wants to continue to engage young audiences. This is where Project T (working title only!) comes in. Project T aims to bring together existing ´óÏó´«Ã½ content and make some new multi-platform material for 12-17 year olds.
To help us develop new sites and services for teenagers we're building a small, independent and agile digital lab operating with start-up mentality and capable of iterating quickly. We're currently recruiting software engineers, client side developers, designers, writers and producers.
Based in W1, we see the team working as a close unit with loosely defined roles. We want software engineers that want to write both sort of scripts and CSDs who fancy shooting film and producing!
If you're interested in the future of the web, young audiences and want to get stuff live fast check out this rather embarrassing ´óÏó´«Ã½ jobs link /jobs/projectbbct/.
Dan
