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BBC News app arrives on iPhone

By tim, on July 23rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today the BBC received approval from the BBC Trust to create apps for mobile devices such as Apple iPhone/iPad and Google Android. Wasting no time, the corporation published a BBC News App on the App Store today.

But what is the point? Is this really better than simply going to the web

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BBC iPlayer goes social

By tim, on May 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from the BBC’s press briefing on the new iPlayer. This is a public beta. The press release is here.

The big story is that social media features are now integrated. The idea is that you can post recommendations (or otherwise) to Twitter and Facebook about programmes you are viewing, or participate

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What next for the BBC and its world-beating website?

By tim, on March 3rd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The UK’s public broadcasting company the BBC is in the spotlight, thanks to a new strategy review and ensuing discussion. I have only just read it, because of other work, but I think it is significant. The BBC’s Director-General Mark Thompson says:

Clearly the BBC needs the space to evolve as audiences and technologies

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Why I don’t want to view bbc.co.uk through an app

By tim, on February 17th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC has announced mobile apps for BBC content, the first being for the iPhone. There is a demo posted by David Madden here:

Our aim is to develop core public service apps that bring some of the BBC’s most popular and distinctive content to mobile in a genuinely user-friendly and accessible way.

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Going Mobile

By tim, on January 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

In the back of my mind I knew that this blog looked terrible on a mobile, but I did nothing about it until @monkchips complained that it was unreadable on his HTC Magic, which runs Google Android 1.6. I don’t have an Android device, but I grabbed the SDK, ran up the emulator

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BBC trying out HTML 5, video element

By tim, on August 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC has an HTML 5 demonstration using the video element. The video itself is encoded in both Ogg and H.264. In the screenshot below I have just clicked on a navigation image to jump to a specific place in the video. The demonstration is meant to work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, though

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BBC seeks web response from unconnected users

By tim, on June 10th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

This really needs a cartoonist. I thought I should grab it before it gets changed.

“The BBC was surprised by the lack of response to its latest Internet survey”

The serious point: now you have another reason not to trust web surveys.

Update: The BBC’s form is not completely daft: it says

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Is Silverlight the problem with ITV Player? Microsoft, you have a problem.

By tim, on April 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I sat down last night to watch a programme on ITV’s catch-up service, using the Silverlight-based ITV Player. It was watchable, but not too good. Now and again the stream would pause for buffering, and I saw the Silverlight busy icon for a while. Quality is also an issue. Sometimes it is great; sometimes

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BBC adopting Adobe AIR for platform-neutral iPlayer downloads

By tim, on October 14th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Just noticed that the BBC is adopting Adobe AIR to create a platform-neutral download client for iPlayer. Erik Huggers says:

Today, we are announcing that in partnership with Adobe we are building a platform-neutral download client.

Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), we intend to make BBC iPlayer download functionality available on Mac, Linux

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BBC iPlayer supporting H.264 in Flash – what’s the point of downloading now?

By tim, on August 13th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC’s streamed catch-up broadcasting, iPlayer, is about to be upgraded to the high-definition H.264 standard, according to this post, from the BBC’s Head of Digital Media Anthony Rose.

He says that the “Play high quality” option will be available “from this week”, though I couldn’t see any sign of it on

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