Links: Tony Hall Speech, 主播大秀 Playlister and Android Update
Nick Reynolds
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Tony Hall's speech on "Where Next?" for the 主播大秀 on Tuesday was largely reported neutrally, with most mainstream media opting for straight forward summaries. The whole speech on the About The 主播大秀 website.
For analysis and comment, Steve Hewlett in the Guardian on the Sunday before the speech asserted: " Steve's argument was debated and debunked in .
Decipher Agency in a blog post called disagree with the听vision for 主播大秀 iPlayer in the speech and made this point:
"...it raises the question again of which point in the value chain is best set up to deliver personalisation.听 It has been shown time and again, that the best place to deliver this is at platform level 鈥� ie one stage further up the value chain than where the 主播大秀 sits."
Blog posts from Charlie Beckett (and听Damian Tambini 听are also of interest.
Zane Lowe at the 主播大秀 Playlister launch. Taken from the @bbcplayerlister twitter stream.
The other big announcement this week was the . The is where.
Other interesting headlines around Playlister include:
from The Guardian.
from The Telegraph.
The Independent's includes this quote from Bob Shennan, Controller of 主播大秀 Radio 2:
"We are not offering the club card mentality. But we are living in a world where a lot of our audience expects us to know who they are. They live in a world where they expect to sign in but it鈥檚 really important that what they get from the 主播大秀 is an enhanced service rather than exploitation"
The Register :
"Yet even in its crude version 1.0 incarnation, PlayLister brings some welcome integration to music fans. It seems absurd in the internet era that discovery and "fulfillment" (aka actually listening to the song or buying it) are so poorly integrated: radio and third-party music services live in separate worlds."
Elsewhere David Berlin has left with an update on听主播大秀 iPlayer downloads on Android devices:
"We have found that some brand new high powered popular devices can only receive streams to a certain level, or that video downloads bugs can cause cyclical crashes and device hard resets, rendering the 主播大秀 iPlayer app useless thereafter and the device temporarily paralyzed. These are not your usual basic bugs and such severe behavior is not acceptable to the 主播大秀. This is why we鈥檝e adopted the strategy of whitelisting devices."
Five听more Android devices now have support for 主播大秀 iPlayer downloads. The
On the 主播大秀 College of Production website interactive producer Alex Hudson .
While Digital Annex
"While not quite a hack day, 主播大秀 Connected Studio invites technologists, creatives, writers and planners to bring solutions to often complicated problems and, although we were there to bring ideas, we walked away having learnt more than we could have expected"
Have a nice weekend!
Nick Reynolds is Editor, 主播大秀 Internet blog
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