The Labs
We've just put our Radio Labs page live. It's a companion page to this blog and contains links to our latest prototypes and betas - a handy shortcut if you want to see what we've been working on.
Meanwhile we're working with 6Music on getting another beta site up and running, it's nearly ready apart from a few server problems, and we're kicking off a brand new R&D project in January. I can't say much right now but I'm planning on writing about the project as it progresses.
The left nav on the Radio Labs page is confusing. You've used the standard 'radio' left nav, but because you've replaced the radio banner/identity with 'radio labs', standard UI dictates that the left nav is read as being within the context of radio labs, not the wider radio site. If you click on any of the left nav links, you can't get back to the radio labs site.
You should either replace the left nav with one that is specific to radio labs, or switch the identity back to the standard 'radio' one. Probably the former would work best.
Just a bit of feedback for you!