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Ed’s note: On the Research and Development blog there’s a new post from Steve Jolly on the R&D Mobile Team’s trip to CES . One of the things that the team wanted to demonstrate was: “that Femtocells are a completely viable way of delivering streaming video from a home network to multiple phones simultaneously.” On the Internet blog Jerry Kramskoy has previously written about the use of Femtocells in home networks which you may also find interesting.
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The R&D Mobile Team goes to CES
www.skiddplayer.com, powered by Miro Community We’re delighted to announce a new version of Miro Community (0.9), which brings a host of new features and themes to the table. The software is incredibly powerful for bringing together video from all over the web into a cohesive website that can have a look and feel that suits a community or organization. Miro Community is currently powering over 250 video sites and continues to grow—the software is free and open source and we offer hosted versions here
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Miro Community 0.9 Released
In comments on my E20 blog post Boilerplated asks , ‘why are you still peddling the myth that ‘old fogies’ can’t cope with computers?’ I agree with rexel : the BBC is not perpetuating the myth that older people can’t cope with computers – we are trying to do the exact opposite. True many parents and grandparents were using computers in the work-place before anyone thought about having “a computer in every home”. And yes it’s true – some younger people might not have access to a PC in their home
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E20 on Eastenders: your comments
Earlier this week we began a phased roll-out of our new site search. New features include: A brand-new search which intelligently tailors the display to the specific query the user enters The addition of featured content to search result pages Improved links to non-BBC content More accurate results through improved meta-data creation Our aim in designing this new search experience has been to present search results in a way that makes sense of the huge variety of content available on bbc.co.uk . It should be effortless to find a specific piece of content and enjoyable to explore everything that we have on a subject
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BBC launches Enhanced Search
New community Womoz (Women & Mozilla) solicits videos about women and FLOSS for their Miro Community powered video site. Check it out and submit some videos! From the Womoz blog : The Women & Mozilla Video Website is live and you can help it grow! We’ve recently added a video website to our WoMoz project tools . This Website has been created mainly in order to: give everyone access to online video tutorials about Free Software and Mozilla publish interviews of women contributors and portray their outstanding work inside FLOSS communities display video content about the women in computer science / FLOSS subject publish existing conferences done by women in FLOSS and IT You can all help by uploading video content onto this new site! If you feel like a video makes sense in regard to the list above, please feel free to submit it directly from the site’s main Home page .
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Womoz Video Site Showcases Women in Open Source
This evening EastEnders launches its spin off online drama E20. As soon as EastEnders finishes on BBC One, log on to the EastEnders website at www.bbc.co/eastenders and you’ll find the first episode of E20 which features 4 young characters in a squat in Albert Square. You’ll see some regular cast members from EastEnders in E20 too
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E20 on EastEnders
There’s a press release on the BBC Press Office website that has some numbers for iPlayer over the last year that you might be interested in. Some of the release’s headline statements include: BBC iPlayer celebrates second birthday with record numbers reaching 88.2 million requests Top Gear most watched programme of the year on BBC iPlayer Figures reveal popularity of BBC shows by device New data suggests that people take BBC iPlayer to bed You can also see the use of iPlayer on mobile by time of day which is where, I imagine, the last statement comes from.
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BBC iPlayer second birthday stats
I wanted to point out the BBC Trust’s press release regarding its provisional approval for Project Canvas – although it was reported in the press yesterday it was actually published today. There are some interesting things to note in the release that highlight market impact and public value around Project Canvas but it’s worth reading the Provisional conclusions and public consultation document in full. There’s a period of consultation on the provisional conclusions that closes on 2 February 2010, after which the Trust will reach its final decision.
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Project Canvas gets provisional approval from the BBC Trust
In the post about the Audio and Music Interactive departmental the other day we covered Radio 1’s Meet the Listeners day where people could send in for free an MMS message of themselves to build up a picture of the station’s users (NB: The promised video is now live and very good too.) Ewan on the Mobile Industry Review website has written the critical (and be warned, fairly foul-mouthed) Radio 1 Free MMS day: Great idea, 3 years too late about the day.
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Round up: Friday 18 December 2009
This morning’s announcement , that Channel 4 and Talk Talk are joining Project Canvas, is getting a fair bit of attention , which for me underlines the huge public and market interest in what we believe will be a groundbreaking intiative. Channel 4 and Talk Talk now join the BBC , ITV , BT and Five as partners in the project, and together, we are seeking expressions of interest from other companies who share our vision of bringing broadband and broadcast content together through an open, internet-connected TV platform, and increase consumers’ access to on-demand content and services
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Channel 4 and Talk Talk join Project Canvas
Over the course of the last week, the debate about BBC HD picture quality which has been running since August has entered a new phase . The Head of Technology for BBC HD, Andy Quested , has serialised an extended review of his response to all the areas that have been covered over the course of the many posts on this subject, and included in that epic some insights into the results of the technical tests that have been carried out to assess picture quality. Looking at your comments I can see that there are still areas on which our views differ.
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BBC HD Picture Quality: some myths laid to rest
Thursday PSNR Measurements This bit is all maths and I make no apologies for it! It is one of the methods used to evaluate the effect processing has on signals and ultimately picture quality. PSNR is a derivative of the Signal to Noise Ratio comparing the maximum possible signal energy to the noise energy [1] . PSNR has been shown to have a high correlation to subjective picture quality (eyeballs) when a single codec is used and cross-references between sequences are not made [2] .
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Encoding: And Another Test…(Or PSNR and all that…)
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Miro Community , in partnership with the Knight Foundation . It’s a powerful way to draw video from all over the web, whether it’s produced by you or someone else, into a highly customizable site that you control. CALL FOR LOCAL AND PUBLIC MEDIA PARTNERS: We are beginning this public beta period with a particular focus on local communities.
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Miro Community Launches with a Focus on Local Video
Just a quick note to let you know that there’s a new BBC blog, About the BBC , which will interest many of the Internet blog’s users. This is how the blog’s editor Chris Jones describes its role : “We’ll be using this blog as a place where decision makers and experts can talk about things going on inside the BBC. This could include anything; from major announcements to how parts of the corporation operate.” To prove Chris’s point today’s post is by Mark Thompson and deals with the BNP’s appearance on Question Time tonight
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About the BBC: a new blog
On the Internet blog we spend a lot of our time keeping track on what’s being said, discussed and debated about the things the BBC’s up to in the online and digital space. Often the good stuff is found on people’s personal blogs where they get to share aspects of their Beeb work. On his blog the Managing Editor for the BBC’s Mobile Platforms Jason DaPonte shares the slides from his Over the Air presentation showing some of the things the Beeb’s up to in the mobile space as well as Jason’s predictions for the next big things in his area.
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Round up: Friday 9 October 2009
Senior BBC R&D Engineer Mark Waddell not only presented a paper at IBC but also won the 2009 IBC award for best conference paper for his contribution ‘Compatibility Challenges for Broadcast Networks and White Space Devices’. Mark kindly agreed to share the paper on the Internet blog (download links at the end of this post) and also to write an introduction aimed at the layperson (and this blog’s editor!). Mark writes: “My paper discusses proposals to allow license exempt use of TV spectrum by WiFi-like devices known as White Space Devices (WSDs)
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Compatibility Challenges for Broadcast Networks and White Space Devices
It’s that time again where we throw open the doors and invite your feedback, comments and questions on BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, BBC HD, and the BBC’s digital and mobile services. Having said that we already have two lively posts covering BBC HD so I’d like to keep comments on HD picture quality over at Andy’s post BBC HD: Picture Quality and Dolby Research (601 comments and counting – I’m not sure what happens when we hit four figures) and comments on the HD schedule on Danielle’s post BBC HD: Autumn Schedule . And finally, I’d like to hear about subjects you think we should be covering, should cover more or shouldn’t be covering at all
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Open post: Thursday, 10 September 2009
The digital revolution is changing everything, and it affects the way business is run and the continued reliance on the network infrastructure to deliver the digital communication that drives business today. This has also affected marketing from: BOUGHT (advertising to mass audiences), to OWNED (websites, blogs, emails) and now and in the future EARNED (customer interaction, feedback, viral, forums, real-time engagement, free content = attention and their data, news, authentic, open-source thinking)
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Network hardware in the digital world
We have all heard the news stories about civil servants losing sensitive public data on laptops that that have been left on trains and in taxis – and this HP security development was created as a result of the embarrassments in Whitehall. HP have developed embedded security in their business laptops and desktops so that when they are stolen the data is remotely deleted on the hard drive and they will also be able to locate the stolen PC as soon as it is connected to the Internet
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HP embedded security to end laptop theft