Well at lunch today I was searching the digital spy forum on radio for my daily fix of inovation gossip within the radio world, for anyone who hasn't visited the Digital Spy forums they should, as the're a hot bed of gossip, information, breaking news and well interesting facts, and I found this little thread about studio webcams.
Kev posted a couple of nice links, the first is an online mashup called "now playing vs the Web [beta]", not sure who has built this but it's a nice little online feed player and mashup.. it's get's the BBC's xml feeds displays it, then finds other content from around the web, no radio stream as such but a live webcam image and if available a youTube video of the current song that's playing.
When nothing is playing ie the DJ is talking the site looks very dull and blank, not a plus point for a fickle user such as myself, also posted is a nice link but old Jan 2008 to the BBC's Radio Labs blog post for Visual Radio, basically a pretty version of the Now playing beta for freeview, see video attached to the post.
Exciting developements by the BBC's developers, lets just see if commerical radio ie "Virgin Radio" (as they would seem the furthest ahead) produces a similar thing soon, a real time streaming cam feed would be a plus point too.
It's good to shout about something that BBC radio is doing right, in contrast to all the negative press this weekend fromPete Tongs "wrong" shout out , despite the fact that the Party was also posted on social networking site, moral of the story.. is don't have a party in the first place or hold it somewhere that isn't your own house.
April 12th, 2008 at 8:59 am
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