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The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Then again, most festival goers are equipped with smartphones to send video clips to their mates and tweet about all the great bands they've seen, and a GPS to find their tent after a day of moshing, so really this is... [03 Jul 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its coverage of this weekend's Glastonbury music festival, which starts today. The BBC is using wireless video cameras which... [25 Jun 2009]
Brum gets a Second Life
News The island will be officially launched as part of the Hello Digital festival being held in Birmingham this week. The island also has webcam views of local areas - such as the Bullring shopping centre - videos and RSS... [22 Oct 2008]
Developers at U.K. TV Distributor Enhance Annual Festival With New Application
White Paper The team saw a digitised BBC Showcase as a way to provide an excellent customer experience, while reducing the amount of man hours involved in preparing for the event. BBC Worldwide and Microsoft... [30 Aug 2007]
BBC flashes web 2.0 'badge'
News An example of how the tech could be used would be for music festival goers to text a number to gain access to a related package or so-called 'badge' of content. The badge would include a variety of media content linked... [02 May 2007]
3GSM Diary: Jolie, Auntie's IMP and content vs apps
Comment It was compelling stuff, filling one of the side auditoriums, just like an up and coming band at a summer music festival. Angel Gambino from the BBC (what's this, an Angelina and an Angel in the same... [17 Feb 2005]
Glastonbury shambles nothing to do with us, says eBay
News Online auction company eBay has denied any responsibility for the changes to the ticket sales procedure for this year's Glastonbury festival, which organisers have admitted contributed to the poor performance of the... [02 Apr 2004]
BBC online comes under government review
News In launching the review, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell, told an audience at the Edinburgh Television Festival that the review would be "wide-ranging" and would be "motivated by a desire to... [26 Aug 2003]
Comical-Ali wins web search 'April fool' award
News Reading festival Similarly, searches for news sites soared as the war in the Middle East reached its dramatic conclusion, with searches for 'BBC news' third and 'Sky news' fifth. BBC... [25 Apr 2003]
The crafty guide to watching the World Cup at work
News With the World Cup now just minutes away, many of us are looking forward to a month long festival of football, and perhaps the chance to support England and Ireland as they progress into the knock-out stages. [31 May 2002]