BBC Opens TV Listings For Remix

ntoll writes "In a continuation of their free software friendly activities the BBC has announced that they want to open up their TV listings to creative developers. They explain, 'Developers and designers are being encouraged to come up with innovative ways of using TV and radio schedules by taking part in a BBC competition. The competition, announced at the Open Tech conference in London, has been organised by the BBC's backstage developer network. Backstage lets people remix the BBC's content to make new applications. We want people to innovate and come up with prototypes to demonstrate new ways of exploring the BBC's TV schedule.'"

Comments

Re:Remix

[DrEldarion]

You just can't synergize with the remixing paradigm.

What a challenge!

[riflemann]

Mixing videos and music - ok, that's pretty normal and doesnt take a skilled person to come up with something..

But mixing a TV guide??? A lot more of a challenge.

I guess what they are after is for example something where someone can do better seraching through the guide, or perhaps linking the information within an application.

One such thing could be linking an article or other media where you can refer it to an upcoming show on tv. Eg, you're browsing some website about natural disasters, and have it automatically tell you about an upcoming TV show about floods.

That's about the extent of my creative juices though..

XMLTV

[Anonymous Coward]

For more than just BBC.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv

Re:Remix

[XAlba]

"Yeah, dude, I just, like, totally remixed my PHP scripts."