Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2014
Posts (10)
Round up: designing a URL structure for 主播大秀 programmes
Michael Smethurst of 主播大秀 R&D has written a long, comprehensive and well recived post on his personal blog: 鈥淒esigning a URL structure for 主播大秀 programmes鈥�. It's a history of how systems like the 主播大秀's Programmes Information database (PIPs) and /programme pages work together.
Audio Factory: 主播大秀 Radio to stop supporting Windows Media on December 31st
Radio will stop supporting Windows Media on December 31st. This will have an effect on some online listeners, as we know that some devices cannot support the new http streaming methods or the AAC codec.
Opening up the 主播大秀's linked data with /things
The 主播大秀 Things website is designed to be used by anyone who works with our data at a technical or editorial level. From an editorial perspective, the website makes it easy for content editors, producers and creators to discover concepts that exist in our platform.
Rebuilding 主播大秀 Search
The search results page is just the tip of the iceberg. Behind it is a system of software components centred around our search engines.
主播大秀 Research and Development: The Challenges of Filming High Frame Rate Video
The video, shot at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum,聽shows the process of gathering high frame rate material.
Introducing Platform API
Across our content set, there are varied sources with many thousands of new items published every day, and our APIs have to be able to respond to a large variety of aggregations and filtering requests from many different sites & apps.
主播大秀 Blue Room North
This week we are launching the next generation of 主播大秀 Blue Room in Salford, which is not only a specialist facility that will showcase consumer and broadcast technology, but will allow our nearly 3,000 strong staff to get to grips with new kit
New 主播大秀 search engine
The new search engine tries to work out what word you meant to search for and return results that best fit.
Open Post: September 2014
As always with an open post you can leave a comment about any subject, subject to the usual caveats and as long as you abide by the House Rules.
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.