Archive for the ‘BBC’ Category
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
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 ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
It's pitch day at the first of this year's BBC Innovation Labs and we're back at Forest Hills Hotel near Aberfoyle.
The Scottish Labs always seem to engage the most technically proficient, not to say geeky, teams of all the labs. Last year we had one group both whose ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
...is that the word doesn't really mean very much.
The first person I heard make this case was Curt Carlson at SRI when I went there with the BBC. He preferred to use the the term 'value creation' but he was really just making a point in the context of his ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
It's the penultimate day of the two week tour with the Innovation Lab roadshow. We're at the Lowry in Salford today. It's a striking building but one in which the interior designer has been excessively liberal with the orange paint.
Last week's Edinburgh event is described by Calico Jack, one of ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Finally a day off from the whistle-stop tour of cities to launch this year's BBC Innovation Labs. We've done events in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle (again) so far.
I decided to base the afternoon's workshop on a user-centred design exercise since that seems to have been the most valuable ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The BBC Innovation Labs are to continue into a third year with a series of launch days scheduled for next month.
They're being produced by Matt Cashmore and Morag Cartwright following Matt Locke's departure to Channel 4. Unexpected Media will be devising and directing the process again.
The intro sessions are filling ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
One of last year's BBC Innovation Labs projects has just gone live.
Geo-Stories, developed at the London Innovation Lab in March 2006, is a collaboration between the BBC, Nokia (who donated the handsets) and tech firm Ymogen.
Ymogen began working with students from the University of Brighton in December 2006 to explore ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
We've secured support from the BBC, Creative London and Screen Yorkshire to organise a Crossover-style Lab in the UK. A collaboration with the International Documentary Festival in Sheffield, Crossover UK will offer talented and experienced documentary film and television makers from Yorkshire and London an opportunity to collaborate with new ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
The Content 360 pitching competition at Milia had much in common with the BBC Innovation Labs: some of the same commissioners, some of the same briefs and even some of the same companies. And Matt Marsh of First Hand Experience, one of the Lab mentors, joined me to give some ...
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
The extended labathon, which started with the Hi8us/UK Sound TV workshop in January, finally ended yesterday where it had started in at the Spread Eagle in Midhurst. The 10 companies selected for the BBC’s Southern England Innovation Lab pitching to BBC commissioners yesterday.
Taken collectively they were the most engaging, creatively ...
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