Prototyping Weeknotes #36 (15/10/10)
The week starts with another addition to the team, Kat, who is our new development producer. She goes straight into looking at ideas for innovative applications of large volumes of real-time Twitter data and is starting to plan some workshops to gather more ideas over the next few weeks. Paul and Chris N talk about message queues and data storage and Chris continues the Eucalyptus installation and then moves on to . Tony's built a demo using a Wiimote to control the tempo of some overly complicated orchestral music, as if you are a conductor. We agreed it would be better if it had a beat. Right now he's at his desk opposite me silently conducting to himself. Sam's been working on the new P2P-Next metadata spec to cope with transitions from live to on-demand.
In Second Screen work we have a conference call with the Autumnwatch team to start planning our experiment. We're working out how to recruit users and what and how we're going to measure. The engineering planning for this involves figuring out our limits, how we can set a limit, how we test that limit and what happens if we hit the limit. So Duncan and Chris B start to load test the servers and add some analytics.
We now have a full team stand-up only once a week plus a weekly show and tell session. Demonstrated this week were the iPad EPG-youview synchronisation which Chris B has just finished, the latest revision of Duncan's Radio Aunty application and Mark's newly-branded "AudioSync" fingerprinting service. Mark and Duncan are now going to work together to try to get the fingerprinting client working in-browser using some of the new audio capabilities we talked about last week.
In other news: There's been lots of industrial noises in our office seemingly coming from the adjoining lift (mine?) shaft. George was at the where he keynoted a workshop about upcoming challenges in content distribution and Kat went to the event. And, as Paul has just said to me, everything else is confidential or just plain intangible.
Comment number 1.
At 15th Oct 2010, cping500 wrote:Hi Toni, how does your app differ from the one by Roni Music any early version (2004) of which is sitting on my Apple Cube ?
from my Cube
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Comment number 2.
At 15th Oct 2010, cping500 wrote:I thought these posts were reactively moderated.
from the Cube
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