Christmas is a time for peace and humanity across the world of backstage.
But also its time for a knees up and to get together. This year is no different. After much messing around with venue owners and many false promises, We're happy to announce the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Backstage Christmas Party.
This time it's at the Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London on Saturday 15th December. Things kick off nice and early at 7pm and we run through till 2am for the hardcore.
Obviously we want to make sure you all get in, so we're reserved 100+ tickets for backstagers. You can sign up for the . There is a special promocode, which can only be found on the mailing list.
We expect to have quite a few treats on the nights including Werewolf and the Open Rights Group are going to help us to recreate the speakers corner experience live for a drinking crowd
Its going to be a cracking night and we look forward to seeing you all there
Premasagar & Annesley of have been working with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service on the Bangladesh River Journey project. They've created an API to access the open content.
The Bangladesh River Journey is a of posts from the World Service trip to track climate change in Bangladesh.
During the trip, photos are being posted to , messages sent to and diary entries sent to the World Service site. The mashup puts all of these on a map, letting you navigate around and follow the reports.
The journalists have a navigation device and post their coordinates to Twitter each time they reach a new location (e.g. ). The mashup system then uses the coordinates to map each photo, tweet and diary entry.
Go ahead and use the API to create something new. There are many options available and there's also a Greasemonkey API to directly interact with the World Service site.
The World Service mashup and contains a wealth of hidden data, which can be seen here in full.
Do you have any ideas for innovative ways to remix and mashup the data? Share your thoughts and questions on the .
Fresh from the previous years Innovation Labs, James and Rob from have created a . The guys are looking for feedback so hit the mailing list if you have a comment or want to know more.
This idea uses Commons i.e. Publicly created data from Wikipedia and del.icio.us to augment the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s metadata so we can do more interesting things with ´óÏó´«Ã½ content like provide useful external links, dynamically. The latter is the example we chose to use in creating a 'service' because of the huge cost of providing such links manually [and the paucity of links across the ´óÏó´«Ã½ as a whole] but there are a number of other uses such as creating first and second level internal relationships across ´óÏó´«Ã½ content [to be able to provide say a link between a Christina Aguillera piece of content or aggregated page and say content on Justin Timberlake] relationships which would not otherwise exist.
Tristan and the Audio and Music team have worked really hard on there new blog and now ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Labs is live. Tristan explains...
It's intended as a place where my department, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio & Music Interactive, can write about what we're working on, look at developments in music and radio in the digital world and show some of our prototypes for new sites and services. The last one is particularly exciting as it finally will give a proper ´óÏó´«Ã½ home for the prototypes and betas that my R&D team develops.
The blog is aimed at developers, designers, students, radio and music fans and anyone else who is in interested in our work and I've signed up a number of people in the team to write on it (see the first post for more details). What I really want is for the new blog to be eclectic - we'll be writing about what we do, how we do it, prototypes, betas, technology, design, innovation and all the new things that are happening online with digital music and radio. But one thing it isn't going to be is just another product announcement blog.
On top of the new blog Radio Labs, has finally released the full list of last.fm feeds for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio.
Another month another London minibar, the popular face to face in East London. This time around we take our camera around the crowd to see what people think of the event. We grab a quick interview with six people outside the bar. [][][][][][]
We also grabbed a , this should not be missed.
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Last Friday we were really fortunate to be joined in Broadcast Centre by Mark Taylor, President of the Open Source Consortium and Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group.
We were also joined in the discussion by Robin Doran, Matthew Browning, Jonathan Tweed and Ben Smith - all ´óÏó´«Ã½ Staff who are, or were, in some way connected to the development of the iPlayer.
This was a great opportunity for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to hear exactly what the Open Rights Group and the Open Source Consortium wanted to say, and a way for us at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to hopefully talk through some of the more complicated aspects of what is a massive project.
I hope you enjoy it :-)
If you've got any suggestions for further podcasts in this area, or there are questions you feel are not being answered, just drop us a line via the mailing list and we'll sort something out.
Listen via blip over at
Or download the MP3 directly from
New Prototype from Chris Riley, instead of rating how in touch is the ´óÏó´«Ã½, he's scratching his own itch about the music playing over Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.
I've coded a hopefully useful, if not idea stimulating web page. It is
called Now Playing https://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ and shows you
information about the artist currently being played on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1,
´óÏó´«Ã½ 1xtra, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 and ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music. It is based on some ´óÏó´«Ã½ data
released at hack day, with Yahoo Pipes and JQuery thrown in.
I made it because when I'm listening to the radio I like to know a bit
more about the artist. Have I heard some of their tracks or albums
before? If I've no idea who they are what have they done in the past?
How much can I buy their albums for, what has been released? What is
on their website, do they have a website? Which artists are they like?
All those questions are answered by this new page. It is designed to
update itself in real time with the current artist being played, and
seems to work quite well. As always the best way to see what it does
is to give it a go, and if you want more info about how it works, data
sources, known issues etc. then there is an obligatory about page.
https://cgriley.com/nowplaying/about.aspx
