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CBeebies Get Creative - Inspiring creativity in our youngest audience
Natalie Radcliff introduces the new Cbeebies app - Get Creative.
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New Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer: internal testing of user journeys
The test team sat down and came up with four areas for the journeys to focus on. These were Playback, Categories & A-Z, TV Guide & Channel Schedules and the iPlayer Ö÷²¥´óÐãpage, the individual Channel Ö÷²¥´óÐãpages and the Search facility.
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Using IP technology to broadcast
We believe that the adoption of IP-based broadcast systems can make broadcasting more efficient, and enable new forms of content.
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10 guidelines on readability and consistency when writing integration tests
Some guidelines on integration testing.
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Can synthetic media drive new content experiences?
How the technology behind Deep Fakes can be applied to create more positive experiences.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã launches new terms and conditions for digital services
Last week we launched our new Terms of Use that covers all of Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s digital services including bbc.co.uk, bbc.com and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s apps. We want it to be easy and quick for you to find what you are looking for when you use them.
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Round up: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Red Button+
The next step in Red Button evolution – the Connected Red Button gets a new name, Red Button+, and this will become the primary experience when you press Red on a wide range of internet connected TVs.
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Restarting live Ö÷²¥´óÐã TV with the green button
How the Green Button will enable viewers to restart a programme already underway on live TV.
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Mixing Audio Description for Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer
How more Audio Described content has been made available to stream.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã News Timeliner launches
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s plans to use it archive more powerfully in digital storytelling has reached a significant milestone with the launch of the News Timeliner on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Taster platform.
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Vote 2014: data architecture and semantic tagging
If we know that the tag 'Birmingham City Council' is a Council type of tag, then when we give the user everything tagged with that subject, we can also provide more contextual information.
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Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online Briefing Winter 2014: keynote
In this brief interview I talk through Future Media’s five priorities and some of my highlights from the last six months, including the Our World War interactive video; R&D’s fantastic work at this summer’s Commonwealth Games; and developments in Ö÷²¥´óÐã Music, Ö÷²¥´óÐã Playlister and Ö÷²¥´óÐã Earth.
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Improving test automation with PUMA
We recognise that there is value in testing with the help of automation, but that it can be taken to unhelpful extremes.
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Developing features for Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer mobile apps
The challenge is always to develop the next most valuable feature, and release it to the audience as soon as possible.
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College of Production round up: Internet radio and Google+
With a Twitter reach of 6.9 million in six weeks, people can watch content through Facebook, YouTube, G+, Instagram and Tumblr. They also are successfully using micro social videos in Vine and Instavideo, and other publications and sites can embed the live stream onto their home pages.
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The Blue Room at The Consumer Electronics Show
Hi, my name is Richard and I'm a technologist working in the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Blue Room. It's my job to highlight immediate consumer technology trends and game changing media consumption devices and to bring them to the attention of our editorial, technical and management teams. In the Blue Room we of...
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A machine learning readiness index
How will an index help analysis of machine learning capabilities?
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Balancing, spikes and speed: Architecting media distribution cloud services
Cloud technologies have radically changed how most organizations develop and deploy software, and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã is no exception. Within the Ö÷²¥´óÐã, we’re using the AWS platform a great deal, for instance the CloudFormation infrastructure management tool and our own AWS based deployment system Cosmos.
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Building the Olympic Data Services
Twelve months ago, there were three of us in the new Olympic Data Team: product manager Oliver Bartlett, developer David Norris, and I, David Rogers, as technical lead. We were tasked with providing data for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Olympics 2012 project: stats, events, results...
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Designing new icons for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Global Experience Language
While other microphone icon examples take a modern representation, we thought that a nod towards an iconic, classic design felt more appropriate for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã.