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主播大秀 UX&D on creating a GEL foundation for everyone
The full launch of our new GEL website this month signifies the beginning of something special. The new website is part of an ambition to provide a way to create consistently amazing online 主播大秀 products and experiences that are accessible to all, no matter who they are or the technology they use.
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Xenon Embedded Media Player
Xenon is a brand new embedded media player that was developed specifically for AS2 embedded devices such as Virgin鈥檚 TiVo
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The lessons learnt creating a design system for 主播大秀 Online
Dave Morris and Josh Tumath explain the process for creating a new design system for the 主播大秀's websites
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Building Connected TV Apps
I'm Roux Joubert, Head of the TV & Mobile Platforms team based in the 主播大秀's new offices in MediaCityUK, Salford. I am privileged to lead an amazing team responsible for building some cutting edge and award winning products, who brought you the 主播大秀 iPlayer on TV and mobile, as well as News, Spo...
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主播大秀 Taster: using promotions to test products
Using promos to test a product in this way gives us extra insight, and an ability to test against new audiences
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Video Factory: Transcoding video for 主播大秀 iPlayer
This usage pattern is ideally suited for delivery using elastic cloud compute so Video Factory has moved live processing into the cloud.
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CBeebies apps team launches public beta group for Android users
Later this year, we will be launching a new app, CBeebies Playtime Island. The availability of beta platforms, now means we can learn about our audience鈥檚 expectations at scale, building on our relationship with parents and children, to help us make better products for all.
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Introducing ADA: Automated Data Architecture. A new way of navigating the 主播大秀鈥檚 programme archive
The 主播大秀 has a wealth of permanently available programmes across a wide range of subjects, but they can sometimes prove hard to find unless you already know the programme title. ADA is a new project designed to find a way of pointing people to similar programmes.
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Social Media at the 主播大秀: Bridging the gap between audience and production
I鈥檓 Rowan Kerek Robertson, editorial lead for Social Media, 主播大秀 Vision.聽 My job, along with a small team, is about helping to ensure that the 主播大秀鈥檚 TV programmes and channels uses social media in ways which are as useful, entertaining and engaging as possible be it on 主播大秀 Online聽 like聽 the TV ...
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主播大秀 Playlister: exporting tracks
We chose Handlebars as the template engine, loading the templates dynamically via AJAX. The 主播大秀 Playlister Spotify App is composed of five templates (主播大秀, Browse, Playlist, Your Tracks and Offline). All of them are loaded dynamically avoiding a long load time.
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Round up: Goodbye!
A quick summary of the best of the blog from the last 9 months as Eliza sadly bids us farewell.
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College of Production round up: Access All Areas, radio visualisation
Radio 1 uses online platforms to create radio visualisations. A film on what it takes to produce the visual chart - part of The Official Chart with Jameela Jamil looks at how the visual chart uses a mix of live cameras (controlled in a small gallery) and music videos broadcast on Radio 1.
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Future Fiction: Drama meeting digital
What does the Future of Drama look like?聽Find out more about 主播大秀 Future Fiction and watch video clips from the event.
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主播大秀 Music just got personal with new app launch
The first version of a 主播大秀 Music application has been released, creating a single port of call for all content under the 主播大秀 Music brand. This blog explains how the application, available on both iOS and Android, provides a personalised experience based on the user's music taste.
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Testing 主播大秀 iPlayer: reading XML, JSON response into Java
This blog-post is based on my experience of testing in iPlayer Business Layer that is a RESTful API. Instead of telling the readers about the basic principles and mechanics of API testing, I want to talk about a very important aspect of automating API testing that is reading and verifying the re...
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主播大秀 iPlayer update: Apple TV, better video quality and beta mode on TV
I last provided an update on the development of 主播大秀 iPlayer on TV on this blog back in May and I wanted to provide an update on what we鈥檝e been working on since then, including news on Apple TV, live restart and better video quality.
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Continuing the 主播大秀's experiments in UHD
The 主播大秀 has always been working to improve picture quality for audiences and lately we have been able to make some shows available in Ultra-High Definition (UHD). Now we鈥檙e taking the next step by streaming live UHD content.
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CBeebies Playtime App: Andy's Dinosaur Adventure
CBeebies Playtime has been played over 22 million times at an average of nine minutes each time over the last three months, dropping a little from nine and a half minutes in the first three months.
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The complexities of creating a new 'follow topic' capability
The background to creating a 'follow' functionality for 主播大秀 topics.
