Simon Willison’s Weblog

Visualising Radio, pushing, not pulling. The BBC’s new radio player uses Comet over a Flash XMLsocket connection transport, with an ActiveMQ message queue behind the scenes. I’d like to know what server they’re using to broadcast out to the XMLsocket connections. 13th January 2009, 12:59 am

BBC Programmes iPhone webapp experiment. More clever BBC hackery from Duncan Robertson, a really classy iPhone web app for viewing the BBC’s TV schedules, built against the BBC Programmes API with source code available. 8th December 2008, 6:21 pm

BBC Programmes via Instant Messenger. Neat jabber hack by Duncan Robertson. 2nd November 2008, 3:58 pm

We’re added some iCal views to BBC Programmes. BBC /programmes is one of the most exciting public facing parts of the BBC’s online offerings. 19th July 2008, 11:48 pm