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  1. Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer Mobile and Tablet Apps updated

    There have been times when as many as four different features were being worked on at the same time all hidden behind ‘flags’ in the code that prevented the end user from seeing them.

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  2. New Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer comes to Windows Phones 8

    ...we’ve overhauled the viewing experience, switching to an adaptive bitrate media player. This means those of you with poorer internet connections will still be able to watch content while those with faster connections will get the best playback quality available.

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  3. Testing: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Future Media hosts The Defectives!

     From one hour’s testing over 500 defects were discovered and logged

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  4. New Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer for TVs out of preview

    The technical team in Salford has been poring over memory dumps and performance monitors to reduce the unnecessary weight in the application and remove any memory leaks.

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  5. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online@20: Updating the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Web Archive

    The next steps will be to convert our Ö÷²¥´óÐã Web Archive 1.0 and any older archived sites into the WARC international web archive standard, so they can sit with the Internet Archive extracted crawls we have obtained.

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  6. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Online @20: data visualisation

    To mark 20 years of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã being online, we wanted to see if there was a way of representing the growth and changing shape of the site over the last 20 years.

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Update to Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer on Sky+ HD

    It’s been over 18 months since we launched this version of Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer and I am pleased that we have been able to work with Sky to make some significant improvements to Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer on the Sky+ HD platform.

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  10. Designing the Human Body Clock

    How much do we really know about the human body? While part of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã News Visual Journalism team I had the opportunity to design an online feature about the fascinating and complex Body Clock.

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