BBC Internet Blog - Ian Forrester

Thanks for all the #tags

Ian Forrester Ian Forrester — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:43:38 +0000

So we're finally at the very end of a era. There's a few more things to sort out but generally its all come to an end. This blog will be mothballed for the future.

I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to get involved with Backstage.bbc.co.uk, be it to rave about what we were doing or shout at us about the DRM stance of the BBC.

Without people like yourselves giving up your time to get involved, hack, tweak and scrape the BBC of its data, it wouldn't have been anywhere near the success it turned out to be. All this will go down in history as a breath taking project with many fingers in many pies which out performanced its very humble start and drove the way the BBC will move forward in the future.

Read more and say farewell at the BBC Backstage blog.

Ian Forrester is Senior Producer, BBC Backstage

BBC Backstage wants your pictures and memories of Backstage

Ian Forrester Ian Forrester — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:50:00 +0000

Just in case you haven't seen the blog and missed the tweets...

Its almost 5 years since Backstage was launched to the public at OpenTech 05 by Ben Metcalfe. Since then a lot of things have happened and changed. Who would have thought the political parties would be shouting about open data in their manifestos?

Anyhow, we're looking to build quite a mash-up but using you and your experiences as the data. I won't go into details right now but you can expect that the data will also be available for yourselves to build on too.

So what're you waiting for? Fill in the forms and I look forward to seeing your answers aggregated together in the near future:

Ian Forrester is Senior Backstage Producer.

Pic Of The Day: Over The Air

Ian Forrester Ian Forrester — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:27:20 +0000

This is an ten year old in a lightsaber fight with two adults live on stage at the Over The Air mobile development event [as mentioned previously]. All of them are armed with nothing more than Nokia N95s which are working like Wii controllers.

There's more and a roundup of the feedback in the latest post on the BBC Backstage blog.

Ian Forrester is Senior Producer, FM&T bbc.co.uk Projects. Photo by Christian Scholz.

Over The Air Sign-Up Live

Ian Forrester Ian Forrester — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:12 +0000

Over The Air is a special event being organised by Mobile Monday London, hosted by Imperial College and supported by the BBC. It's 48 hours of mobile and wireless development by and for the leading lights in the industry.

At its core, it's a mobile development event that's part conference, and part un-conference, all in a 48 hour open hackathon format...

Read more at the BBC Backstage Blog

Ian Forrester is Senior Producer, FM&T bbc.co.uk Projects

Accessibility In A Web 2.0 World?

Ian Forrester Ian Forrester — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:14:43 +0000

One of the less talked-about issues recently has been accessibility. The web has moved on quite a bit in recent years, but it seems like we may be making some of the same mistakes we made back in 1999.

The latest in our BBC Backstage podcasts looks at this very difficult area of web development/design - and thanks to our participants, it's a lively and positive discussion.

There are more details on who's in the episode and how to get it at the Backstage Blog.

Ian Forrester is Senior Producer, FM&T bbc.co.uk projects.