Bits and bobs
Posted by Chris @ 8:17 pm
A couple of websites I've stumbled across today have enough substance to them to make them worthy of a special mention.
Firstly the BBC have released the BBC Broadcast Catalogue as a beta to the world. It is an absolute treasure trove of information, and is crying out for a Web 2.0 mashup of some kind! They explain it far better than me, so check it out! [Via hackdiary]
Secondly I've found last.fm - an absolutely brilliant social music service - it tracks what you listen to, but also provides a free personal radio station based on what you and others listen too (it uses tagging quite nicely.) After signing up, 5 minutes later and I'm listening to some quality jazz, with no adverts or DJs. Great! Again they explain it much better than me, but essentially just try it, I guarantee you'll love it.
Finally completely unrelated, you'll have seen my site has a Cumbrian translation, but I'm struggling to find a decent Yorkshire translator for web pages. If you find one let me know!
Update: Sorry, one other website I forgot to mention, another bit of BBC content buried on their site, Blog Network - a site detailing all the various blogs the BBC run, something for everyone there! Go!
2 Comments
Saturday, April 29, 2006 10:03:00 am
Did you know that Matt Biddulph (who posts to hackdiary) moved to Morzine for the snowboarding season in December 2005 when he'd finished coding the BBC Programme Catalogue? (More here.)If he was around when you where there, you could've met up and discussed your mash-up ideas with him!
This comment posted by Tony Ruscoe
Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:03:00 pm
Yeah, I knew he was in Morzine, just didn't think about it when I went on holiday there!This comment posted by Chris
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