BBC Internet Blog - Matthew Cashmore https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/ Staff from the BBC's online and technology teams talk about BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC's digital and mobile services. The blog is reactively moderated. Posts are normally closed for comment after three months. Your host is Eliza Kessler. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:30:35 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mashed08: It's All Over Mashed08: London, June 21/2 2008That's it, another year, another massive event at Alexandra Palace. I spent yesterday mainly sleeping, one and half hours sleep is not conducive to maximum brain power - and may explain why I genuinely jumped out of my skin when the explosion (which I had organised) went off just three feet behind me during the presentations.

It's fair to say that I'm really happy with the way things went - I have some thoughts about how we can make it better next year - but by a long way the feedback we've been getting is extremely positive. The Guardian spent all weekend there, and blogged like crazy over at PDA, Ewan Spence wrote a nice piece about it over at BBC News and the O'Reilly GMT guys went video crazy.

Read more at the Backstage blog.

Matthew Cashmore is Senior Research Producer, BBC Future Media & Technology

]]> Matthew Cashmore Matthew Cashmore https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/mashed_its_all_over.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/mashed_its_all_over.html innovation Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:30:35 +0000 Hack Day 2008, Or: Shall We All Get Mashed? hack_london.pngSo last year the BBC and Yahoo! ran the stunningly cool Hack Day London. It was a brilliant success, and frankly I’ve been biting at the bit to organise another one. Last week I got the nod from Ashley Highfield that the budget had been cleared and we could run another one!

Read more at the BBC Backstage Blog.

Matthew Cashmore is Development Producer, BBC Future Media & Technology, Research and Innovation.

]]> Matthew Cashmore Matthew Cashmore https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/hack_day_2008_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/hack_day_2008_1.html innovation Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:54:25 +0000 Podcast Interview: Anthony Rose Well, it's podcast time again and yesterday I got the opportunity to speak to Anthony Rose - head of all things iPlayer here at the Beeb.

We managed to talk for several minutes before DRM was mentioned, but this is a great listen if you want to know a little about the man behind the future strategy and tech delivery of the BBC's iPlayer project.

Listen to the podcast at Backstage.

Matthew Cashmore is Development Producer, BBC Future Media & Technology, Research and Innovation.

]]> Matthew Cashmore Matthew Cashmore https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/podcast_interview_with_anthony.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/podcast_interview_with_anthony.html iPlayer Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:23:02 +0000