This week was our bi-annual review by the management; much talk of KPIs and deliverables and slide-wrangling. But I don't imagine that you want to hear about that.
We pitched a few second screen ideas to the ±«Óătv's head of UX and agreed the one we're going to follow up together where we'll develop some of our ideas from to cover another area of ±«Óătv programming. Kat's grabbed some rambling discussions by the scruff of the neck and is now organising and documenting some work on the ±«Óătv's strategy for user-owned data. User-generated content has really come of age: now it has ethical, technical and business considerations that need straightening out before it can be used to its full potential. Theo and Kat attended a research debrief on narratives and ±«Óătv programmes - - possibly obvious but definitely useful evidence.
We launched our and we’ve been keeping an eye on the service - thanks for your responses so far. The related RadioTAG work is going really well. Chris L and Sean are contributing to the specification work and this week they got their proposals around registration and authentication up and running in code - a command-line simulated radio if you will.
Chris N has started building a mobile web app for Watch Later, his first time using . Duncan’s been ingesting the relevant schedule data into Solr and building the skeleton API and test code. Some of the engineering team also visited Talis for a hackday on their . Chris L says they .
Olivier’s been finishing up his report writing - I’ve seen at least 5 versions of one doc pop out so far - and helping to secure speakers for the . He also points out tomorrow’s event in London. Theo, our creative director, has been learning Sinatra to build UX models. Paul’s finished off his data research document. It’s all graphs, moving averages and RRDs so having proven the data in the report he’s now creating friendlier versions for communicating it.
Someone took my laptop’s power supply from under my desk on Tuesday. If you see it do let me know, my battery’s running out…