Unexpected Media

“hard work and deep thought”

The third of this year’s BBC Innovation Labs finished on Friday with Jason Daponte, the BBC’s Managing Editor for mobile applications, saying it was the best set of presentations he had seen in the three years they’ve been running. I tend to agree, although the southern lab last year was also very strong. Four of the ten teams got the funding they had asked for and two more were told that their projects would go forward subject to further discussion.

The lab has been covered in blogs by Noam Sohachevsky of Mint Digital (here), Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel (here) and Tom Evans from Numiko (here).

Visitors for the pitching day included, for the first time, a senior manager from BBC Vision. I had to introduce him to the commissioners from Future Media and Technology: while the BBC is better adapted to multi-platform publishing than many broadcasters, it has some way to go before it becomes properly integrated.