Interesting Stuff 2008-08-04
New York, London, Paris, Munich - everyone's talking about...
...the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music artist pages beta. [If you're not already up to speed, you can start with Matthew Shorter's post below, on his personal blog and more hardcore detail at Radio Labs from Guy Strelitz.]
In a rare instance of a critic of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã assuming an excess of agility in the Corporation, "I have no idea," , "if my campaign to try and get the Ö÷²¥´óÐã to open up more of its data to outside developers" influenced the beta, and offers congratulations either way. (which those of you without a blog could also stick up on - see below):
it would be nice to see Last.fm incorporated in future - and obviously a method of searching artists wouldn't go amiss (also, would a Ö÷²¥´óÐã radio data open API be viable?)
"Semantic Web evangelist" Juan Sequeda yelps: and of The Telegraph that "I'm now able to see that they don't actually play any of the music I listen to."
The Beeb's "a little something to make [it] a touch easier: a Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music/MusicBrainz ":
Drag this Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music/MusicBrainz link to your bookmarks bar in your browser. Now, when you're on an artist page (e.g. Coldplay) click on the bookmarklet to switch between Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music and MusicBrainz artist page.
Enjoy!
Patrick's bookmarklet is also available from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Labs blog.
And a satirical image at Flickr wonders .
On another topic, Audio & Music honcho James Cridland tells the :
So, I did a Ö÷²¥´óÐã Weather iGoogle gadget last year. It was kind of nice, but sadly people are actually, um, using it - with over 20,000 impressions a day. Yikes. Think of the bandwidth and hassle that's causing my little server.
Poor little server. Happily, Google's kit has a tad more capacity than James', so his freshly-rewritten weather gadget now sits, as it were, in the cloud [click or for explanation of weak pun] over [Update 2008-08-05: now over - see ]. James would appreciate your feedback:
(add this to your iGoogle by hitting "add gadgets" (top right), then "Add feed or gadget" at the bottom of the left-hand menu, and finally pasting that in). Use the change settings button to choose a town near you.
If people don't see any hideous bugs (I can't test this in MSIE yet), then I'll do some redirection shortly to the many users of my current gadget. And add a Ö÷²¥´óÐã News one. And possibly even a Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music one! ;)
Come on, what are you waiting for? Encourage the man!
Ö÷²¥´óÐã is here!
12 employees are listening and participating
reads the top of the , part of a network which purports to "provide help for products and services from thousands of companies". Some Ö÷²¥´óÐã employees who work on that project are listening to the suggestions for improvements, and Ö÷²¥´óÐã Internet Blog is eagerly signing up for RSS feeds for other services within our wide purview, including , and the aforementioned . If you have other accountability feeds you think we should be adding to our Mission Control and personal RSS clients, let us know in the comments. We can handle it!
writes Katie Scott at Pocket-lint; reports Gareth Beavis at techradar.
Leigh Holmwood about Ö÷²¥´óÐã3's first multiplatform comedy drama, Mouth To Mouth, about a girl pop group:
Mouth to Mouth is be made available first through web 2.0 communities, mobile phones, and the show's own Ö÷²¥´óÐã website before airing on Ö÷²¥´óÐã3.
--which means that, according to , it won't be viewable in Beijing.
Finally, at the Ö÷²¥´óÐãi Labs blog, Rob Hardy explains burndown charts and shares some of the Beeb's:
Burndown charts are one of the artefacts used in agile software development; we've been doing agile development since at least before I joined, and we've found it works tremendously well.
Alan Connor is co-editor, Ö÷²¥´óÐã Internet Blog.
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