5 Most Interesting Stories from the Fortnight
Post categories: round up
| 17:27 UK time, Friday, 5 August 2011
The Hungarian Grand Prix became another test of HTTP HD streaming last weekend. Pic by, used under
Some stories you might have missed this fortnight:
1. Back on July 5th, little more than a week after the Â鶹Éç Online Industry Briefing, Â鶹Éç Future Media Director Ralph Rivera expanded on his briefing keynote at the . just put .
Rory Cellan-Jones quizzed him on World of Warcraft and took audience questions.
Matthew Yates from the World Wide Web Consortium asked Ralph to expand on what he meant by fewer, stronger, standards. Ralph offered News on Connected TVs as an example:
And so when you look at our connected TV news product, it's HTML5 based. And what that does for us, it gives us that ability the distribute our product much more widely.
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2. On Wednesday 27th July, Audio & Music Interactive held an event for suppliers to meet commissioners. Barbara Greenway blogged about the content and services delivered in partnership with indies:
This year's Glastonbury site, built by Picture, saw a massive 122% increase in peak weekly traffic, and our new Desert Island Discs site, built by Magnetic North, received critical and audience praise.
Meanwhile, the newly-available archive episodes of Desert Island Discs, reformatted by Loftus, attracted 3.3 million downloads in the first two months.
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3. Also on Wednesday 27th July, the Â鶹Éç Trust announced that they have approved the use of longer excerpts from performances in the Specialist Classical Music Chart Podcast. Andrew Caspari, Head of Speech Radio and Classical music, posted at the Radio blog on Tuesday 2nd, the day it rejoined the family of Â鶹Éç podcasts:
Last month listeners successfully put 14.8 million downloads on their PCs or mobile devices.
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4. Last weekend two members of Andy Armstrong's team, Richard and Kiran, came into the office to run another HTTP HD trial - of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Andy blogged about his gratitude for your help:
It's also given the programmers who are working on this a great incentive to make it work even better; I think a remark I overheard sums that up: "Isn't it amazing that people are taking so much time to write detailed, accurate feedback - makes it all seem worthwhile". It does indeed. Thank you all for taking the time to share your thoughts and comments with us.
So, what next? One of the things that disappointed quite a few people was that we were only able to run the trial during office hours. That was disappointing for us too - we want to know more about how well HTTP adaptive bit rate streaming works on domestic broadband connections. When the trial is run during office hours, unsurprisingly, most of the traffic comes from office networks.
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5. On Wednesday 3rd August, Daniel Danker, head of Programmes and On-Demand, went on Radio 4's You and Yours to answer questions regarding problems over the iPlayer application on the iPad.
He told Shari Vahl that audience members were helping test a potential fix:
Our audiences have been using a version of the product that we believe addresses this problem and validating for us whether it does in fact solve the problem ... My hope is that a fix is right around the corner.
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(This blog is about Â鶹Éç Online, the internet services of the domestic Â鶹Éç. So if you are wondering why I'm not mentioning , or the comments on Â鶹Éç Sport's rights agreement with Formula 1, it's because those are off-topic, and if I mentioned them I'd have to moderate myself.)
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer, Â鶹Éç Internet Blog
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Comment number 1.
At 8th Aug 2011, Trev wrote:The most important story was the decision of the Â鶹Éç to abandon F1 fans. It certainly got the most comments in the blogs. The Â鶹Éç prematurly closed that blog because the Â鶹Éç simply do not want to listen to the public's view when it does not agree with thier own. The BBc is so out of touch.
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Comment number 2.
At 8th Aug 2011, Piet Boon wrote:I asked last week in the Open Blog how many new Â鶹Éç IDs were issued in the period after the F1 decission was made public. With the 8400+ reactions on the blog, a lot of first timers were found. The number of new Â鶹Éç IDs might be worth mentioning on the Â鶹Éç Internet blog overview. Please, can you obtain the numbers.
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Comment number 3.
At 19th Aug 2011, Piet Boon wrote:The Â鶹Éç confirmed that 1,983 people registered on the Â鶹Éç system across the period in which the F1 blog was live.
Ian, can you put that number of Â鶹Éç IDs in perspective and compare it to an average week and the total number of IDs.
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Comment number 4.
At 3rd Oct 2011, OfficerDibble wrote:Ian,
You closed the last of your Roundup blogs in August saying that the reason was you were just about to publish a new roundup. (we thought the reason was the audience posts were too hot to handle).
can you tell me where that new Roundup blog is? (you don't seem to have posted for a month)
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Comment number 5.
At 3rd Oct 2011, Ian McDonald wrote:@OfficerDibble
Nick wrote the last roundup. The last roundup I wrote, in August, is still open to comments. Indeed, you left a comment within the last couple of weeks.
So I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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Comment number 6.
At 3rd Oct 2011, OfficerDibble wrote:ahh... very confusing when there are 3 of your blogs all named the same.
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Comment number 7.
At 3rd Oct 2011, OfficerDibble wrote:PS I found it hard to find your blogs... the "latest contributors" list does not have you.
Is it cherry picked like the "categories"? The lack of consistency means these tools are unreliable. Same goes for the search.
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