It is beyond me but could someone do a Yahoo widget for Â鶹Éç Radio Now and Next.
The URL points to a widget for the five terrestrial TV Channels using puretelly.com data which is perfect.
I have tried various RSS feeds in some RSS readers but it does not seem to work for me.
Some sort of ability to select the radio stations displayed would be a good feature.....
Instead of the Â鶹Éç sharing its information, how about doing it the other way around. Create an application that will save local weather conditions back to the Â鶹Éç centre, based on data gathering equipment at the users home/office. For example Maplin used to do a small kit that had a wind speed, wind direction and temperature sensors, that connected to a standard PC, and there are other companies that produce similar hardware. It could become a Â鶹Éç school project and given that many people now have broadband and computers that stay on for much of the day (eg Media Centre PC's), it could become a really massive & worldwide project, as the only input a local user would need to provide would be a location. Enough sensors within a given location would allow for errors & mistakes.
I'm an ICT Coordinator without the time to develop many ideas. Heres my main ones:
Link up - countryfile - bbc local websites - google maps - gardeners world and add photos of local wild flowers to a google map, with flower information such as name, flowering date, herbal uses e.t.c have a sub group of experts to check details and build up a national database of wildflowers and their distribution. Link up with wildflower charities for the experts - should all be driven by ease of use for public
to add their own photos.
Idea 2 - i'm sure there's been plenty of suggestions like this. But i would like radio shows available as podcasts across the board. i.e any show on any bbc network, The podcast would be signed up rss, bbc can promote email feedback on program as part of the package. This gives you detailed information about your programs and thier reception and the listeners and license payers : accessability to your archived radio content away from a computer! yes why not let the rest of the world have it too, for free?, it would promote your brand in all the right ways!
G.Wilkinson@Valence.kent.sch.uk
ICT Coordinator Valence school
Any body else think it would be a good idea for the bbc to have an RSS feed for the UK Singles chart (Top 40) or if any body wants to build an aggregator for the radio 1 webpage to produce a feed???
I haven't actually got any firm details on this idea yet but just wanted to [git mode] put it in the bath and see if it floats [/end git mode].
In principle every section of every Â鶹Éç Where I Live site (specifically the England ones) could output an rss feed.
With masses of content on everything from faith events to band profiles would it be possible to combine this with geo positioning to create some kind of rich app giving you information on all sorts of things happening in your location on a map?
Or something along those lines?
Forgot to add (and improved on the idea within seconds of clicking submit).
I mentioned band profiles - one of the biggest parts of a Where I Live site is the Unsigned Band section.
If you could take an RSS feed of the band profiles, the gig reviews and gig previews you could create a really sexy rich app that takes a google map, overlays it with flickr images, the data from the unsigned bands section on the Where I Live site and info on gigs in the area from sites like Radio 1, 6music and other music services - could even take in audio clips of gigs recorded by radio one or the local station.
It would be nice if a feed was available to see all the current football fixtures for eg. the upcoming week but based on leagues rather than individual clubs. Currently there doesn't seem to be a feed available for this from the fixtures page, but rather you have to go on a per-club basis...
Yahoo! have released a and .
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The UI library contains complete components with code (including AJAX functionality, HTML and CSS).
This is a great resource, especially if you want to implement 'leading standards' interface widgets to your mashups.
Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes news to them automatically, without you having to request it. So I sat down last night and implemented something like this (pretty raw in its current state):
- you contact the bot to register you interest
- the bot sends out the latest 5 headlines from the Â鶹Éç news page every hour (on the hour) to all those registered
- and of course, you can contact the bot again to remove yourself from the list
If anyone wants to try it out and let me know what they think, here's the details:
Google Talk and Jabber users, contact "bbcnewsflash@menti.name"
MSN users contact " bbcnewsflash@hotmail.co.uk"
AIM users contact "bbcnewsflash"
As I said, this is still very experimental, so don't be too surprised if it doesn't always work... but I'd be interested in people's feelings in general, whether something like this is useful (or just annoying..).
A summary of suggestions received/ next steps includes...
- only showing headlines once (the current format is showing the news items most recently updated, so the same stories may re-appear if they've been updated, a little like hourly network news I guess)
- being able to select news categories/keywords you're interested in
- being able to specify the times you want to receive the news flashes, not just hourly
In addition, I found some weirdnesses with Google Talk, but am not sure if anyone else has. It doesn't always seem to deliver the news, while delivery to a more "standard" Jabber client/account seems to work as planned.
Actually not something that speaks this time!
TENBot converts RSS/ATOM/RDF feeds to the Text Electronic Newsletter standard which is gaining ground amongst visually impaired users as a preferred format for email newsletters. Applied to RSS feeds it lets them quickly find out what's in the feed and then navigate around it. The users uses their own screen-reader or magnifier.
Next stage will be to add a directory of TENBot enabled feeds, and maybe strike a deal within someone like Feedster...
Jack Schofield has written a nice piece on Mashups in the UK – which made the front page of Thursday's Technology section in The Guardian.
introduces the mashup concept to the mainstream Guardian audience and touches upon Dan Catt's , Dom Ramsey's and of course .
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