Nick Reynolds
Assistant Editor, BBC Online
Blog posts in total 21
Posts
Round up: BBC Red Button+
The next step in Red Button evolution – the Connected Red Button gets a new name, Red Button+, and this will become the primary experience when you press Red on a wide range of internet connected TVs.
Open Post: January 2015
A chance to comment about the BBC's digital activities.
Round up: BBC iPlayer RSS feeds and the Ethical Dilemma Cafe
“BBC clamps down on ILLICIT iPlayer watchers” was the Register’s colourful headline about the decision to switch off BBC iPlayer RSS feeds.
Round up: Continuous delivery, Genome and The Doctor
One thing we didn’t want to do is continuously deliver low quality code…
Round up: designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
Michael Smethurst of BBC R&D has written a long, comprehensive and well recived post on his personal blog: “Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes”. It's a history of how systems like the BBC's Programmes Information database (PIPs) and /programme pages work together.
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.
Round up: BBC Research & Development at the Commonwealth Games 2014
A chance to try out Ultra High Definition TV and showcase some of their other projects.
Round up: Comments on the new BBC iPlayer
A round up of comments.
Open Post: April 2014
An opportunity to make a comment, ask a question or have a conversation about any aspect of the work of BBC Future Media or BBC Online.
Links: new BBC iPlayer Radio, Connected Studio and Behaviour Driven Development
If you missed Tuesday's Connected Studio in Cardiff on Classical Music there are selected pictures on the live blog.
Links; Instagram video, Connected Studio, iWonder
On 16 January, BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as a roundup of the day's news.
Open Post: January 2014
An opportunity to make a comment, ask a question or have a conversation about any aspect of BBC Online.
Lord Birt at BBC Future Media
If you're in any doubt as to his improtance in the history of BBC Online, read this lengthy article from The Register published last year.
Open Post: November 2013
"At the moment we treat audiences like licence fee payers. We should be treating them like owners. That’s what I meant when I said that we wouldn’t be THE BBC, but My BBC, Our BBC? The public owns us and that is what it needs to feel like."
Links: BBC iPlayer App Downloads
The fact that BBC iPlayer app has now been downloaded more than 200 million times was reported by Metro (which has some nice infographics) and the Telegraph.
Ada Lovelace Day 2013
Today is Ada Lovelace Day
Links: Tony Hall Speech, BBC Playlister and Android Update
Tony Hall's speech on "Where Next?" for the BBC on Tuesday was largely reported neutrally, with most mainstream media opting for straight forward summaries. The whole speech can be watched on the About The BBC website, with an accompanying press release.
Open Post: September 2013
An opportunity to make a comment, ask a question or have a conversation about any aspect of the work of BBC Future Media or BBC Online.
Round up: BBC Sport redirect, Connected Studio
Some nuggets of information you may have missed...
Transparency and the Internet blog
The Internet blog was set up in 2007. Its aim has always been simple: to provide a place where people from the BBC’s technical and editorial teams who work in BBC Future Media and BBC Online can talk about their work and get feedback from readers.
