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Inside No.9: How we made The Inventors
We set out to work with colleagues in Future Media, and the digital agency Kanoti to explore digital storytelling by creating an extra online episode for the fantastic new series from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith "Inside No. 9" which has just started airing on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing Winter 2014: Meeting Audience Needs in a Digital World
We recently conducted research around a topic we labelled ‘Digital Needs’ – exploring the various ways and reasons that people use the internet and how this differs between different demographic segments.
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Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of Ö÷²¥´óÐã News content
Abdallah al-Salmi explains the reasoning behind making the Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service news website available on the Tor Network.
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Philip 21 - an interactive story exploring race, love and modern Britain
An object-based media experience - a story of a date with a young black man, turned into an introspective examination of race, love and modern Britain. Here are the techniques and mechanics underpinning this and other branching narrative experiences, examining how they keep audiences engaged.
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The future of in car listening: opportunities and choices
Eleanor van Heyningen and Asha Knight explain the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's thinking on developments in in-car technology
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Linked data: new ontologies website
bbc.co.uk/ontologies is a human friendly view of the data models in the Linked Data Platform and is meant to give a comprehensive understanding of which ontologies the Ö÷²¥´óÐã uses, why and how.
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New interactive quiz format pits players against stars
We wanted to build a great game that has all the play-along fun of a traditional TV quiz show but with a modern twist; the face-to-face, personal filming style of a YouTube vlog, the shareability of a Buzzfeed quiz and the interactive rather than passive experience of an app
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Connected Studio: One Planet
Using digital technologies and experience to immerse audiences deeper into natural arenas, heightening our audience’s emotional connection to our planet & the ingenious animals we share it with.
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Building the Computer Literacy Project archive
Andy Armstrong gives an insight into how he built an archive of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's home computing TV programmes and software from the 1980s.
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Genome: behind the scenes
The web site is hosted on Linux servers. We have database servers running MySQL and Sphinx Search and application servers which run Apache and a web application written in Perl using Dancer and Template Toolkit. In front of the application servers a layer of Varnish application cache servers hel...
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What's on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Red Button: 12-19 January 2013
Here's a breakdown of what we've got on the Red Button this week. To stay updated on everything Red Button follow us on Twitter or visit bbc.co.uk/redbutton. Winterwatch Mountain Hare camouflaged against the winter snow The Winterwatch webcams return, live from Aigas in the Scottis...
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Search Engine Optimisation in Ö÷²¥´óÐã News
This is the third and final in a series of posts about Search Engine Optimisation, following Duncan Bloor and Oliver Bartlett writing about optimising Knowledge and Learning websites. Headline-writing is a journalistic skill that provokes strong feelings - and of course it is meant to. A sub...
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Loudness measurement: Improving sound for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and other broadcasters
I’m Ian Astbury, a Senior Investigations Engineer in the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Technology Team. In my last blog on audio and music technology at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã I mentioned loudness measurement. I wanted to cover this in more detail and also to tell you more about how we are working with other broadcasters on a co...
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Vote 2013: the first step towards connected politics
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã is investing in its online political coverage to meet the challenges of the next four years. We took the first step on this journey in May, with this year’s local elections service called Vote 2013, overhaulin gour technology, and introducing responsive design.
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Building connected communities at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã
Our vision is to build a community of architects & technology strategists to support transformational change across the Ö÷²¥´óÐã. The focus of TS&A is to lead & shape the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s technology strategy & digital transformation agenda.
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Local Live: A better Birmingham & Black Country news index
Our users have told us over time the reasons why they visit our local news indexes. The main areas they value are the good coverage of big local stories; the mixture of TV, Radio, Sport, Travel and Weather content; the variety of content from different news sources and our local knowledge.
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Visual seeking for Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer
The Media Services team explain the steps taken to create visual seeking functionality.