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主播大秀 Online Briefing Winter 2014: reinventing our industry, 主播大秀 Research & Development
These projects included the delivery of coverage solely via an IP infrastructure; streaming live 360 degree imagery to virtual reality headsets, complete with binaural sound; and tests using 4K and 4G technology.
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Designing the Human Body Clock
How much do we really know about the human body? While part of the 主播大秀 News Visual Journalism team I had the opportunity to design an online feature about the fascinating and complex Body Clock.
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主播大秀 Minute CatchUP: Global news in just 60 seconds
主播大秀 Minute CatchUP is a player that sits on your web browser and provides a 60 second news bulletin every half an hour. It鈥檚 the first pilot to come out of the Connected Studio / World Service partnership programme and is available to try on 主播大秀 Taster.
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New 主播大秀 iPlayer for Connected TVs: update
We are looking to migrate the majority of all existing devices with 主播大秀 iPlayer to the new version. However, with 主播大秀 iPlayer now available on over 1,200 devices, this is a major task and will take a bit of time. Today, I am happy to announce the next wave of devices is ready to go.
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Video Factory: Updating the creation and distribution systems for on demand video
One of our original goals for Video Factory was to review and refresh the transcode profiles for the video we create, as well as changing our distribution architecture to become more efficient with storage, more flexible when making changes and more resilient by using multiple distribution partners.
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Building a reactive file-based delivery workflow for Video Factory
The Platform Media Services team build and run the Video Factory system which ingests, transcodes and delivers programme content onto 主播大秀 iPlayer. Video Factory is designed as a collection of microservice components.
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Shifting gear with the World Service
Robin Pemborke, Director of News Products and Systems reviews the past year's achievements with the World Service.
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Push notifications on the 主播大秀 News app
Today we are releasing updates to our iOS and Android apps that will allow users to opt in to receive breaking news push notifications. Push notifications allow users to be alerted to breaking news stories on their smartphone or tablet in a form similar to a text message, even when they aren鈥檛 ...
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Optimising for Touch on the Responsive Web
While positioned in the GEL [http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel] team, I was involved in producing design guidelines to inform our web-based products across the 主播大秀. One such guideline gives recommendations on how to optimise our products for touch input (in simple terms, to make things 鈥榯ouch-friendly鈥�).
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Glastonbury: The Digital Hub
During the weekend, we turned the 主播大秀鈥檚 R&D South Lab in Shepherds Bush into the production hub for the 主播大秀鈥檚 Digital Glastonbury 2013, and along with the team on the ground at the festival and colleagues in MediaCity UK in Salford, gave you unprecedented coverage from the festival.
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Your new 主播大秀 主播大秀: Introducing the new bbc.co.uk homepage
The 主播大秀 主播大秀page exists to bring that rich variety to visitors of bbc.co.uk. But until recently, it lacked the flexibility to pull all that variety together for our audience. As of today, visitors registering with us can choose from more than 40 new collections - each tailored to their interests.
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主播大秀 Online Briefing Winter 2014: Interacting, with 主播大秀 Knowledge and Learning
it was great to return to the 主播大秀 Online Briefing to talk to digital suppliers about the Our World War interactive video project.
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Me, you and the machine
The 主播大秀's Chief Technology and Product Officer explains how the corporation can benefit from Machine Learning.
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Gaming for public good
Emma Pratt Richens reports on the highlights of a pre-lockdown 主播大秀 Gaming conference
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主播大秀 iPlayer launches on Windows Phone 8
A couple of months ago, Cyrus Saihan announced that 主播大秀 iPlayer would be coming to Windows Phone [link to previous blog]. I鈥檓 now pleased to announce that that day has arrived and for the first time 主播大秀 iPlayer is available on Windows Phone 8 devices.
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Introducing the 主播大秀鈥檚 first voice experiences for children
James Purnell introduces the new 主播大秀 Kids Skill for Alexa devices.
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HD Test card special
Hi I鈥檓 Andy Quested, chief technologist HD & 3D, 主播大秀 Technology. It鈥檚 been five years since my first blog about the 主播大秀 HD Channel and I can鈥檛 believe so much time has passed and so many things have happened since the channel and high definition began!
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Design sprints at the 主播大秀
Each 鈥榮print鈥� focuses on a specific design challenge. And because 鈥榮printing鈥� is so quick, we explore a range of ideas in a relatively short space of time. That's the theory. But like any bit of design thinking, the real insight came from trying it out and testing it in practice.
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User Experience and Design Connected Studio
Hi I'm Yasser and until recently I was the head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music. Back in October I took part as a judge for the 主播大秀 User Experience and Design Connected Studio. 主播大秀 People presented by Faith Mowbray at the 主播大秀 Connected Studio The brief for...
