BBC Social Software Goodness

In Articles on 10 November 2005 tagged BBC, social software with no comments

Lots of nice things appearing out of the Beeb’s offices these days. Two recent projects that appeared on my radar:

• Annotatable Audio is a project Tom Coates was involved with. It’s about wiki-style annotation of online audio with some extremely impressive Flash goodness (such as live audio scrubbing) thrown in for good measure.
• The BBC archive will be opened up to the public using an IMDB-style website. Both Ben Hammersley and Matt Biddulph wrote about this. They’ve got amazing high quality metadata to work with – allowing all kinds of cross referencing. It’s built with Ruby on Rails, allowing for plenty of AJAX niceness.

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