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New interactive quiz format pits players against stars
We wanted to build a great game that has all the play-along fun of a traditional TV quiz show but with a modern twist; the face-to-face, personal filming style of a YouTube vlog, the shareability of a Buzzfeed quiz and the interactive rather than passive experience of an app
Agile Delivery in the Travel Beta; from Scrum to Kanban
We finished the proof-of-concept in 4 sprints: one to tool up, setting up development practices and frameworks, and 3 sprints to code.
Now, Next, Future: will we be doing things differently?
Highlights from this year's Technology, Strategy & Architecture summit.
The future of Red Button
An opportunity to give Red Button a new lease of life, taking advantage of new web-based technologies that deliver richer, more visually-enticing experiences.
BBC Food at 20: Its biggest year
The most popular recipes of 2020, and the trends from a record-breaking year for the BBC Food website.
Archiving the BBC’s website and social media output
The BBC tries to maintain and keep older pages online for the public to access for as a long as possible (dependant on technology, editorial or copyright reasons). It’s the BBC Archives responsibility to archive copies offline and preserve them.
BBC Proms Digital Guide
I’m Laura Davis, Publications Editor for the BBC Proms. One of my responsibilities is to manage the production of the annual BBC Proms Guide, a book that contains full concert listings for that year’s Proms season, along with newly commissioned editorial articles and supplementary information. ...
Local Live: A better Birmingham & Black Country news index
Our users have told us over time the reasons why they visit our local news indexes. The main areas they value are the good coverage of big local stories; the mixture of TV, Radio, Sport, Travel and Weather content; the variety of content from different news sources and our local knowledge.
Service Design at the BBC
We needed to understand how people were using the full range of BBC tools without already having in mind predetermined sub-tasks, with the aim of learning about totally unknown issues. By looking at examples from companies facing similar problems, a Service Design approach seemed a good choice.
Quality Control for file-based delivery at the BBC
Hi my name's Rowan and I work in a small team who look after the technology strategy for the TV making parts of the BBC. That includes everything from cameras and edit platforms to programme delivery and archive.
BBC Future Media "Get In!" diversity open day
This event highlighted opportunities at BBC Future Media for top female tech talent and encouraged honest discussions around bridging the gender gap in technology.
The spoken web has huge potential in India. But can we get this next chapter of the internet right?
Mukul Devichand explains how voice based services could gain traction during the forthcoming Indian Election.
Notifications feature brings personalised alerts to BBC Online
Notifications are both convenient and personalised to you, working as a quick and easy way to be alerted to content you enjoy. Clicking on the bell displays your personal Notifications hub - a list of all your notifications, with each providing a direct link to the relevant content.
Taking BBC VR to new audiences - in libraries
A new partnership for the BBC virtual reality team.
Looks good to me: Making code reviews better for remote-first teams
How remote working has changed the way his team approached code reviews.
BBC iPlayer on Xbox: design approach
One challenge we had with this approach is that some programme titles are very long and are often shortened in the UI.
World Service expansion continues with new language websites launch
The new W2020 sites are the first from BBC News to be served over HTTPS by default, which we consider to be an important move for a number of reasons.
College of Technology: { develop: BBC } conference, behaviour driven development, loudness
Why do developers love building apps for different platforms when they could build a single website with friendly URLs and easily updatable content? Well, It's all about caching...
