Blog posts by year and monthJune 2015
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Inspire digital creativity: Teenage testers wanted
We’d like feedback on a new tool. It’s very early days – pre-public beta in fact - but we want to involve younger audiences to help us explore different ways they can get creative in other areas. Creating and collaborating with friends on music visualisations could be one example.
BBC pages removed from Google search results
A European Court ruling allows individuals to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their results. Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from certain searches, including some to BBC web pages. We have decided to make clear which pages have been impacted.
Local Live: A better Birmingham & Black Country news index
Our users have told us over time the reasons why they visit our local news indexes. The main areas they value are the good coverage of big local stories; the mixture of TV, Radio, Sport, Travel and Weather content; the variety of content from different news sources and our local knowledge.
Mind control your TV
For our latest project, we took a simple low cost brainwave reading headset and created a ‘Mind Control TV’ prototype. It allows users to open an experimental version of BBC iPlayer and select a TV programme to view, using nothing but their brainwaves.
BBC Online Briefing: June 2015, Salford
The BBC relies upon the UK’s digital media indie sector to help build and maintain the quality of our online services. At least twice a year we invite a number of digital suppliers and industry representatives to a series of presentations and updates about our development strategy for BBC Online.
Home Front Story Explorer: Putting BBC drama on the web
Home Front is an epic radio drama series set in Britain during World War One and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The Home Front Story Explorer provides a new way to enjoy and understand the drama across three seasons, sixteen storylines and over twenty-one hours of listening.
Discovering the best BBC Sport content
We’re starting to roll out some changes to the BBC Sport website. I wanted to share a little bit about why we’re doing it, how we’re doing it and what changes you’ll see over the coming weeks and months.
Teens and Tech: School Report visit to Blue Room
Blue Room is our consumer technology lab where we look at year-on-year trends to determine the impact of new consumer technology on the BBC and wider broadcasting industry. We were delighted to host a session on tech for a bunch of bright young teens from a school in Hackney.
Adding Series Record to BBC iPlayer downloads
We’ve released a new version of our BBC iPlayer Downloads app for Mac & PC, with the much requested Series Record feature. Series Record lets you subscribe to any BBC TV series, and have new episodes automatically downloaded to your computer as soon as they become available.
BBC Radio: Running successful hackdays
A hackday usually means a one or two day event where like-minded individuals come together to build new stuff. They often have a particular focus, theme or area of interest.
