• Submitted by: Simon Cross
• Link: http://www.simoncross.com/music/radio1/

A new prototype based on Radio 1's now playing data but this time from a BBC member of staff working in their 10% project. Simon goes into details.

We're working on a new 10% time project over here at FM&T Audio and Music - and we thought we'd give you guys a super sneak preview. There's a few of us involved here, including Yasser Rashid, Cathy Bartlet and Ramon Dodd.Its around visualizing now playing information by pulling in data from across the web.

The plan for this is to eventually build a flash version which is full-screenable to provide a visual companion while listening in the office, or on the web etc. Future data sources we hope to build on include Musicbrainz, Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics,Yahoo Music and loads more. At the moment, we've just got as far as last.fm, flickr and the webcam, but its a start!

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New Prototype from Chris Riley, instead of rating how in touch is the BBC, he's scratching his own itch about the music playing over Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.

I've coded a hopefully useful, if not idea stimulating web page. It is called Now Playing http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/ and shows you information about the artist currently being played on BBC Radio 1, BBC 1xtra, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music. It is based on some BBC data released at hack day, with Yahoo Pipes and JQuery thrown in.

I made it because when I'm listening to the radio I like to know a bit more about the artist. Have I heard some of their tracks or albums before? If I've no idea who they are what have they done in the past? How much can I buy their albums for, what has been released? What is on their website, do they have a website? Which artists are they like?

All those questions are answered by this new page. It is designed to update itself in real time with the current artist being played, and seems to work quite well. As always the best way to see what it does is to give it a go, and if you want more info about how it works, data sources, known issues etc. then there is an obligatory about page. http://cgriley.com/nowplaying/about.aspx

• Submitted by: Ben Smith
• Link: http://apps.facebook.com/bbcfriendsontv/

Find friends (or, currently, name-sakes of your friends) that have been on BBC TV, what programmes and when they were aired. Currently, this finds the first TV programme's 'contributor' to match your friend's name, through the BBC Programme Catalogue (http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk).Future developments will involve giving you the choice of all possible matches to identify from and integration with IMDB (http://www.imdb.com).

• Submitted by: Dan Read
• Link: http://www.danread.net/anomalous

Anomalous uses the BBC's news feeds to create a metaverse or stories arranged in a 3D space according to the time they were released and their relevance to the user.

By applying aspects of time and space the stories take on a representational structure creating a spiral of news and information.

• Submitted by: Robin Wilson
• Link: http://robinwilson.homelinux.com/travel/

Basically I wrote this to deal with a personal niggle (that of having to use the IE search function to search for traffic problems that might affect me) and thought others might find it useful too.

If anyone's interested, then it's written using eRuby and runs on my apache webserver, which sits in my bedroom (that's why it's slow!).

• Submitted by: pelado
• Link: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=WJNifOT62xGYi1HvyjUFzw

You can get your own rss feed to paste into your news reader by entering a query and then subscribing to that feed. My default is Cardiff City (its all bad news at the moment), but you can enter any term to search the bbc sports section.

• Submitted by: Kent Brewster
• Link: http://kentbrewster.com/multi-search

• Submitted by: James Howat
• Link: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6902

An Opera widget that overlays the BBC Traffic tpegML files onto Google Maps, and sits on the desktop. An entry into the current Opera Software widgets competition (http://widgets.opera.com).

It features a continuous news ticker, a browseable list and a details view, all of which link into the interactive map.

I hope to improve the display of the details, perhaps a useful icon and colour scheme for quick reference.

• Submitted by: Christina Lee
• Link: http://mojiti.com/kan/3937/10619

Mojiti.com is a free online video annotation service that allows users to add comments and information directly onto online video via our overlay technology. Without changing the underlying video content, users can now add text, shapes, flash art and multimedia onto the video screen.

With more and more video content becoming available online, our goal is to continue to make online video a more interactive and engaging experience. Using Mojiti's RSS feed annotation, I have very easily taken an online BBC news clip and a BBC weather report and added the relevant live RSS feed to the screen. Now as users watch the video, the latest news can also stream across via the RSS feed.
News clip: http://mojiti.com/kan/3937/10619 (On this video, I also happen to add a BBC logo and made it clickable so that viewers can get redirected to the BBC website.) Weather clip: http://mojiti.com/kan/3930/10597 (These videos can also be directly embedded onto backstage.bbc.co.uk if you think viewers would be interested to see these examples.)

• Submitted by: Brian Butterworth
• Link: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=c10fdb04-dab5-4936-b317-411750afcc86

Watch "Britain's most watched news channel" BBC News 24 in the Vista sidebar.

There are no controls, just right click to stop and restart, doubleclick to go full screen.

• Submitted by: Michael Pritchard
• Link: http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/about_geoRss.html

You can now display the traffic data direct on the google maps site. This might be more handy for people who want the geoRss data, but i thought putting it on google was the best way to display it.

Direct google link is http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http://bbc.blueghost.co.uk/travel_data/locations.rss

• Submitted by: Adam Leach
• Link: http://bbc.ask-adders.com/trafficinfo.php

The widget currently accepts a postcode and a range set in the preferences and retrieves the all incidents within the range from the specified postcode.

The server is updating its database from the Backstage Traffic Data feeds and then providing the information via a simple xml feed that is then used for both the Widget and the Google map on the site.

I just need to find some time to add the additional information in the Traffic feeds to the Widget and improve the quality and presentation of the information provided.

• Submitted by: Kent Brewster
• Link: http://kentbrewster.com/badger

Not precisely a BBC hack, Badger will take any RSS feed and package it up nicely into a proxy-free Web badge, via Yahoo's new Pipes beta. Here's the BBC's World News feed, all badged up and ready to go.

• Submitted by: Peter Chamberlin
• Link: http://regionaltraffic.co.uk

A regional traffic incident site featuring road accidents, roadworks, petrol stations, fuel pricing and user-customisable driving route overlays.

Created as a personal project, using Google Maps API v2 and AJAX techniques, to greatly improve upon BBC's own traffic incident update page.

Possible improvements include UK-wide fuel station locations, pricing and timeline recording of feed state for later replay.

• Submitted by: Edd Read
• Link: http://gis.eddread.co.uk/TrafficBrowser

This is a Google Maps application showing live and historic traffic data from the BBC TPEG road traffic data. Also includes an 'Accident Blackspots' section which is created by analysing traffic data collected over the last 4 months (and growing).

This has been built as part of a project for my degree course in Engineering. To improve it, I have several ideas which may involve the BBC weather data as well (perhaps using some machine learning algorithms to find patterns in the relationship between weather and traffic incidents).