Skin of Stars

Machines, Media and Miscellanea

by Kevin Carmody

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The ongoing saga of the iPlayer

Oh, what a treat… and just in time for Christmas! I am very pleased to find that the BBC has finally indulged my fetish for organic software by releasing a flash streaming version of their iPlayer. Though of course flash isn’t homespun in itself, it is cross platform compatible and so both myself and all those other ‘nix and Mac … Read the remaining 40 words

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BBC iPlayer

In a follow-up to my previous post regarding the incompatibility of the new BBC iPlayer I recently found an interview on backstage.bbc in which the developers of the iPlayer and representatives from the Open Source Consotium and the Open Rights Group discuss this very topic. It would seem that the general consensus is that release of the iPlayer to be … Read the remaining 99 words

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