Tags: iplayer

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

BrowserQuest

A fun little multiplayer game, all possible in the browser thanks to web sockets.

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Shownar

An experimental prototype that tracks the online buzz around BBC programmes (before they disappear down the memory hole of the iPlayer's time-restricted playback).

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Welcome | The Signtific Lab | Massively Multiplayer Thought Experiments

An even more speculative version of The Long Bet. Given a supposition (e.g. "What will the world be like when custom satellites are as easy to design and launch as your own website is today?"), you can add to a list of positive and negative outcomes.

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Don't Give Your Account Passwords Away, a Mission on PMOG

A PMOG mission where players learn about the password anti-pattern.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

You are iPlayer

Now that the BBC iPlayer has been sensibly implemented in Flash, rather than as a proprietary Windows-only app, it turns out to be quite useful. Should I ever miss an episode of or, God forbid, , I can catch up at my leisure.

But there are two major problems with the iPlayer:

  1. It is only available in the UK,a condition imposed by the licence fee system and enforced with IP sniffing.
  2. Programmes are available for seven days. Then they’re gone.

Both of these limitations are unwebby but that second bit of self-crippling is particularly galling as the boffins at the BBC, in their attempt to appear more 2.0, have added a “Share” button to every show on the iPlayer, prompting you to bookmark the current episode on sites like Digg, Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon. I’d be very curious to find out if anyone is actually making use of these links. I don’t know who should be considered more idiotic: the BBC webmonkeys for encouraging people to link to a time-limited URI or the people foolish enough to actually bookmark a resource that has just a week to live.

To quote Sir Timbo: .