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  1. Ö÷²¥´óÐã UX&D’s new 'GEL' design website goes live

    The first Ö÷²¥´óÐã web page was published in 1997. Within ten years we had over four hundred websites, all designed differently. Such entropy was unsustainable and confused our users. Hence the introduction of GEL, a shared design framework which standardised our core interaction patterns.

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  2. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing Winter 2014: Q&A

    In this last video speakers from each of the day’s sessions took to the stage to respond to questions from the audience

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  3. Digital Glastonbury: From Stage to Smartphone

    This year you'll be able to see more of Glasto than ever before on whatever device you like, the first truly digital Glastonbury. We're beaming six stages of live music back from Glastonbury and distributing on mobiles, tablets, computers, and via the Connected Red Button so you can watch it li...

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  4. Privacy by design

    Some of the technical challenges around providing data privacy options.

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  5. Beat the Bot - use your voice to challenge our sport bot

    Beat the Bot is a web-based competitive football sports quiz that uses speech recognition. Use your voice and go head-to-head with the Bot to name all the teams relegated from the Premier League!

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  6. Building the Winter Olympics Web Pages

    Six months ago I blogged about the development of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport's Correspondent pages - Sport's first fully responsive web pages. Since then we have been working hard creating a whole range of Winter Olympics pages such as the Sochi 2014 homepage, discipline pages e.g. snowboarding, the medal table ...

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  7. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Food: A website redesign with all screens in mind

    More people are now visiting the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Food website on a handheld device than on a desktop or laptop computer. In response to this new trend, Ö÷²¥´óÐã Food has decided to redesign their website to be more mobile friendly and provide the ability to access all content, no matter what the screen.

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  8. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Search: Play your cards right with new feature

    Search cards allow us to field certain types of search queries and present the results in a way that best satisfies their search ‘intent’. For instance, when someone searches for a programme title, most want to watch or listen to that programme right then and there.

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  9. From Destination to Service: Rio 2016 Olympics

    In addition to creating a more personalised experience on the My Sport app, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport app team has launched a virtual reality trial app - Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sport 360. These apps are expected to provide users with a greater Olympic experience through tailored content.

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  10. Linked data Connected Studio event

    The two aims of our event were: to get a better understanding of how we can use 'people' to tie together Ö÷²¥´óÐã content online, and to put the linked data platform through its paces.

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  11. New version of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Media Player in Google Play Store and Amazon Store

    We want to offer our mobile audiences the same capabilities that we offer on desktop and laptop computers. This summer, for those of you watching the World Cup and Commonwealth Games, we will be offering the ability to 'rewind' all the way back to the beginning of a live event in case you missed...

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  12. What's on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Red Button: 4-10 January 2014

    Ring in 2014 with World Darts, Team GB's Winter Olympics medal hopes, Stargazing LIVE, a behind-the-scenes look at one of CÖ÷²¥´óÐã's biggest shows and more new year treats from Ö÷²¥´óÐã Red Button.

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  13. Ö÷²¥´óÐã North Future Media: Higher Level Apprenticeship Scheme

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã North Future Media at MediaCityUK, Salford are piloting a brand new Higher Level Apprenticeship Scheme in IT, Software and Web Technologies. The scheme will give young people the opportunity to work on iPlayer (TV & Radio), Sport, CÖ÷²¥´óÐã, CBeebies, iWonder, Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage and Search.

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  14. Show me the ML-oney

    The latest is the series of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Machine Learning Fireside Chats.

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  15. Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer Radio introduces new 'My Radio' features

    MyRadio works by keeping track of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio programmes you listen to online, in order to help you keep up with the programmes that you love and introduce you to new programmes we think you’ll enjoy.

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  16. Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer Radio app on Windows 8 phones

    I’m pleased to say that today sees the launch of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s first iPlayer Radio app for Windows Phone 8 users

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  17. How we got Ö÷²¥´óÐã Red Button and Red Button+ to work together

    ...by uniquely identifying devices, we could use cloud based storage to pass messages between our HTML apps and MHEG.

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  18. BIDI: The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Internet Distribution Infrastructure explained

    BIDI is the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s own content distribution platform and is responsible for delivering media directly to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã end users in the UK. The clients are always presented with a ‘CDN mix’ from which they can fetch the media they are interested in. BIDI is part of this mix, alongside the commercial CDNs.

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  19. How we built "The Doctor and the Dalek" CÖ÷²¥´óÐã game

    Previous work at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã had already determined a 2D platform game would form the base genre for us to build on … but the demands of the curriculum required our examples of problem solving to be based in the real world, which is 3D.

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