Chris Herring » bbc http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk Interaction, development and everything in between... Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:34:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Evolution of the iPlayer article http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/12/29/evolution-of-the-iplayer/ http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/2008/12/29/evolution-of-the-iplayer/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:24:26 +0000 blog.chrisherring.co.uk http://blog.chrisherring.co.uk/?p=95 Whilst studying at Bournemouth University, I sat in guest lecture from the Head of Technology at the BBC (c2006) who discussed the iPlayer sphere before its existence and ever since the area has always been an interested. Consequently the evolution of the iPlayer amazes me, specifically the coupling of advances in technology and the changes in viewing habits whilst sitting within a public service umbrella.

Anthony Rose has headed up the Online Media Group at the BBC since Sept ’07 and has just had a interesting article published by the European Broadcasting Union. Various interviews feature within the article that focuses on, ‘The Evolution of the BBC iPlayer‘ and makes for interesting reading.

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While doing some research into my little project last month I discovered the beta version of the BBC Music page, on these two blog posts 1, 2. Not only are the blog post very interesting but they also go into some detail about the BBC’s integration of the MusicBrainz community service. Each artist on MusicBrainz has an unique ID which looks like ba853904-ae25-4ebb-89d6-c44cfbd71bd2 and based upon this the BBC are then looking up artists related links, scraping information from Wikipedia and using it as part of the artists biography see Blur for example. Pretty cool I’ll hopefully write a longer post about this over the weekend.

Anyway back to what I was writing, I was thinking about using MusicBrainz api to conduct my searchs for related information on artists for the little Lastfm and Flickr api mash up I’m creating.

On chrisherring.co.uk I’ve added a diet version of my Flash api mash up as a banner, which searchs for my most popular music and fetches relating flickr images. The results are interesting as new photos are tagged, especially searching of Foals:

Radiohead:

Foals:

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