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The cross-platform app problem. What should the BBC do?

By tim, on January 11th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC released a new sports app last week. In the comments to the announcement though, there is little attention given to the app or its content. Rather, the discussion is about why the BBC has apparently prioritised iOS over Android, since the Android version is not yet ready, with an occasional interjection from a

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IE9 ActiveX Filtering causing tears of frustration

By tim, on June 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been assisting a friend who, she told me, could not get BBC iPlayer to work. Further, another site was telling her she did not have ActiveX, but she was sure she had it.

This was puzzling me. She described how she went to the BBC iPlayer site, and it said she needed to

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Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up on AIR for Linux – at least, in a fully supported manner:

To support the variety of Linux-based platforms across PCs and devices, we are prioritizing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code), which Open Screen Project (OSP) partners can use to complete implementations of AIR for Linux-based platforms

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BBC iPlayer goes a little social – but what can it learn from YouTube?

By tim, on September 6th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

BBC’s iPlayer, which offers but live TV and radio and an on demand catch-up service, has gone live with a new version that adds personalisation as well as links to Facebook and Twitter for limited interaction with your social media contacts.

Presenting a personalised iPlayer web page is more demanding, as every visitor sees a

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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 site:

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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 in

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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 develop,

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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.

In another

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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 for

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