The BBC is pleased to announce that the RadioVIS demo application is now available as open source software, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
This blog post on the BBC RAD labs blog gives full details of where to download the software.
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BBC releases RadioDNS demo application as open source
Friday, July 10th, 2009BBC RAD experiments with RadioDNS
Monday, February 16th, 2009The BBC’s Chris Needham writes about RadioDNS, and shows a testing service that he’s written for Ubuntu.
Read the article at BBC RAD Labs
The BBC’s Radio Labs discusses RadioDNS
Monday, October 6th, 2008Nick Piggott and I discuss RadioDNS on the BBC’s Radio Labs blog:
That FM radio in your mobile phone could, if it wanted to, connect to the internet to discover more about what it’s listening to. The DAB radio in that wifi radio you have at home can similarly connect to the web to get lots of information about the current broadcast. And listening to radio on your MP3 player could interact with the internet when it docks to your PC. In short, there are a lot of radio sets hidden within connected devices.
Read the entire post at BBC Radio Labs
RadioDNS in Scandinavia
Monday, September 29th, 2008My colleague Nick Piggott has been speaking about RadioTAG in Scandinavia. He writes:
James and I covered a bunch of subjects and projects that have come out of radio in the UK – things that we believe are innovative for listeners and advertisers*, and demonstrate how radio can use technology sympathetically to really improve the experience without undermining the core attributes that radio is loved for. So we talked about mi-XFM, RadioPop, Tagging, Visualisation, EPG, Text Information, Olinda – all useful milestones in the timeline of radio’s development.
What we both wanted to emphasise is that not only is it possible for public service and commercial radio companies to collaborate, it’s essential for the future development of radio. Individual companies alone can’t influence the direction of technology (not even the BBC), and consumer electronic companies need to see European sized markets to start integrating radio cleverly into devices. So I hope that what we showed was the practical benefits of Agree on Technology, Compete on Content.
Read his full blog entry