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08-27-2009, 05:25 AM
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BBC Learning Innovations (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningdevelopment/) has been looking at new ways of providing location-based content on mobile phones. Under the working title BBC Open Air (http://www.bbcopenair.co.uk/)it has recently finished a demo website that combines events listings from the campaign Breathing Places (http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/) with information from BBC Weather (http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/).
The BBC Open Air demo uses the open source Gears (http://gears.google.com/) software offered by Google (http://www.google.com/) to find out your location and pass this back as a search term to find relevant local information.
At the moment Gears is supported on all phones running the open source Android operating system (http://www.android.com/) as well as newer Windows Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/default.mspx) handsets. It's also available as a plug-in for Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx), Firefox (http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/), Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/) on desktops, laptops and netbooks.
If you have one of these newer phones with built-in Gears support you don't need to install any additional applications to find content for where you are. The BBC Open Air demo is not like an iPhone app (http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/), it's a standard web page you can visit from any browser.
The user proposition is simple: go to www.bbcopenair.co.uk (http://www.bbcopenair.co.uk/) wherever you are and find the nearest relevant BBC content.
The first results page will give one result from each data set. You can then select 'more like this' to see just one type of result sorted by distance, or you can select 'all local results' to see all types of result in one list (which will obviously make more sense as we add more types of data to the site).
For any given result you can click on 'details' for further info and a link to the original data.
BBC Learning Innovations encourages feedback and recommendations about the further development of the demo into a fully-scalable live service and the future development of similar websites and mobile services.
Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs
BBC Learning Innovations (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningdevelopment/) has been looking at new ways of providing location-based content on mobile phones. Under the working title BBC Open Air (http://www.bbcopenair.co.uk/)it has recently finished a demo website that combines events listings from the campaign Breathing Places (http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/) with information from BBC Weather (http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/).
The BBC Open Air demo uses the open source Gears (http://gears.google.com/) software offered by Google (http://www.google.com/) to find out your location and pass this back as a search term to find relevant local information.
At the moment Gears is supported on all phones running the open source Android operating system (http://www.android.com/) as well as newer Windows Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/default.mspx) handsets. It's also available as a plug-in for Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx), Firefox (http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/), Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/) on desktops, laptops and netbooks.
If you have one of these newer phones with built-in Gears support you don't need to install any additional applications to find content for where you are. The BBC Open Air demo is not like an iPhone app (http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/), it's a standard web page you can visit from any browser.
The user proposition is simple: go to www.bbcopenair.co.uk (http://www.bbcopenair.co.uk/) wherever you are and find the nearest relevant BBC content.
The first results page will give one result from each data set. You can then select 'more like this' to see just one type of result sorted by distance, or you can select 'all local results' to see all types of result in one list (which will obviously make more sense as we add more types of data to the site).
For any given result you can click on 'details' for further info and a link to the original data.
BBC Learning Innovations encourages feedback and recommendations about the further development of the demo into a fully-scalable live service and the future development of similar websites and mobile services.
Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs