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After the it feels like a good time to have a roundup of news and stories about 主播大秀 Online over the last couple of weeks.

The most reported 主播大秀 Online story in recent days has been the : 1.94 million requests gained in 2012.聽

reported on the increase of mobile and tablet viewing which along with internet connected TVs overall accounted for a third of the requests last year.聽 鈥淎 surge in watching TV shows on mobiles and tablets on the way to work fuelled a rise of more than a third in viewing on the 主播大秀's iPlayer video-on-demand service last year, with Danny Boyle's London Olympic opening ceremony the most requested programme of 2012.鈥�

December saw a significant spike in iPlayer usage via mobiles, tablets and IPTVs with seven million programmes requested on connected TVs alone, a year on year increase of over +1000%.聽

There were also 13 million requests via mobile phones and 10 million on tablets, an increase of +596% from last year.

In the first week of January executive product manager for Sport blogged for us on the release of the .聽 A large number of you commented with many people questioning the lack of a release on other devices.

This week updates have been released to the iOS app allowing users to watch live and on-demand video clips as .聽 鈥�Given that almost a third of 主播大秀 Sport鈥檚 traffic comes from mobile during the weeks, rising to 40% at weekends and as high as 45% on a Saturday afternoon 鈥� it felt a little premature. People have come to expect video (and radio) through the main 主播大秀 Sport portal, so the omission was an odd one, even though we knew an update was imminent.鈥�

The Next Web point out until the release of an app for Android and other device users without Flash on their mobiles will have to watch video content by downloading the app.

on the Freeview retune in South Wales as local airwaves are cleared for the roll-out of 4G mobile broadband, while .听听

Martin Belam on his past experiences of working in online voting at the 主播大秀 and the risks of basing insights on the information gleaned from online votes. 鈥�Although people will look at the technical details, and blame the website security and the programmers, in the end it is the editorial decision to take the number [of votes] at face value, and to commission content on the back of this kind of vote that has been their downfall.鈥�

This week I attended some of the events organised by the .聽 As well as a chance to meet 主播大秀 teams at the Technology Showcase and get a glimpse of some cutting edge camera technology from various Bristol providers, I also attended a panel discussion on The Right Environment for Exploiting New Technologies which included 主播大秀 Research & Development鈥檚 Dr Libby Miller.

Libby recently published a post on the Research and Development blog on Visualising . 鈥�Our approach is to think about how real-time data might benefit our audiences and also 主播大秀 programme makers, and then develop some initial application ideas and prototypes from those discussions.鈥�

You can catch up on more content from 主播大秀 R&D including videos from their , a 鈥�curated series of video interviews that explore the key engineering issues defining the future of broadcasting and content distribution鈥� by visiting the .

主播大秀 User Experience architect Paul Rissen writes for on closing the gap between the storyteller and the audience and how 主播大秀 R&D can facilitate this: 鈥�as new technology, and yes, new media, become ever more commonplace in our lives, enquiring minds are toying with the ways in which the process of writing, delivering and experiencing stories might change.鈥�

While in the same place R&D senior researcher some resources either in use or in development which allow 主播大秀 staff to deliver these new storytelling experiences.聽

An example of this is the Mythology Engine which 鈥�allows the storyline [of a TV programme] to be described using an Ontology. This storyline can then be presented either in a linear way, mapped to the traditional TV structure of episodes and series, or deconstructed to let you examine a single story arc within a complex narrative.鈥�

Have a good weekend!

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