Blog posts by year and monthMay 2014
Posts (16)
BBC iPlayer Mobile and Tablet Apps updated
There have been times when as many as four different features were being worked on at the same time all hidden behind ‘flags’ in the code that prevented the end user from seeing them.
New BBC iPlayer comes to Windows Phones 8
...we’ve overhauled the viewing experience, switching to an adaptive bitrate media player. This means those of you with poorer internet connections will still be able to watch content while those with faster connections will get the best playback quality available.
Testing: BBC Future Media hosts The Defectives!
From one hour’s testing over 500 defects were discovered and logged
New BBC iPlayer for TVs out of preview
The technical team in Salford has been poring over memory dumps and performance monitors to reduce the unnecessary weight in the application and remove any memory leaks.
BBC Online@20: Updating the BBC Web Archive
The next steps will be to convert our BBC Web Archive 1.0 and any older archived sites into the WARC international web archive standard, so they can sit with the Internet Archive extracted crawls we have obtained.
BBC Online @20: data visualisation
To mark 20 years of the BBC being online, we wanted to see if there was a way of representing the growth and changing shape of the site over the last 20 years.
Connected Studio: One Planet
Using digital technologies and experience to immerse audiences deeper into natural arenas, heightening our audience’s emotional connection to our planet & the ingenious animals we share it with.
Vote 2014: data architecture and semantic tagging
If we know that the tag 'Birmingham City Council' is a Council type of tag, then when we give the user everything tagged with that subject, we can also provide more contextual information.
Update to BBC iPlayer on Sky+ HD
It’s been over 18 months since we launched this version of BBC iPlayer and I am pleased that we have been able to work with Sky to make some significant improvements to BBC iPlayer on the Sky+ HD platform.
Designing the Human Body Clock
How much do we really know about the human body? While part of the BBC News Visual Journalism team I had the opportunity to design an online feature about the fascinating and complex Body Clock.
