For the first time we have the embedded media player (showing the Olympics opening ceremony) across all the main BBC homepages…

… and a record number of live streams being served.

I’ve also just found a fortune cookie (as part of a themed launch) containing the message ‘our mobile audience is heavily skewed towards the young and C2DE’s - and is much younger than our web audience’ - Is this good luck?

We’ve pushed the button - the new site is now live - read more about it on the BBC Internet Blog

Hello - I’ll be talking at Mashed 08 about some of the new technologies behind the latest iPlayer site which launches soon.

I’ve turned over my dormant blog to a selection of links, examples and feeds below - I hope you find these useful - I’ll be adding more on embedding video later this morning - but if you’re at Alexandra Palace I’m happy to help with anything you’re planning to make and will be around all weekend.

We’d particularly like to get feedback on some of the Atom formats we’re planning to use for iPlayer.

Live Feeds

• All available ~700kb
• Expiring soon
• Most recent
• Most popular

Sample Feed (forthcoming site)

• Most Popular

• iPlayer Lightbox - all available content in one big page of thumbnails
• BBC News Channel Yahoo! Widget - get the runtime - then run news_channel.widget
• iPlayer List - A stripped down screen-scraped view of iPlayer with added YouTube
• WiiPlayer - A custom interface optimised for the Nintendo Wii
• Facebook iPlayer Application - including new similarity feature
• iPlayer Radio Google Gadget
• Watchification Internet veterans curate the best online telly

We’re using the W3C Timed Text format. For more info see Andrew Strachan’s recent entry : Online Subtitles on the BBC Internet Blog

• /programmes - A great source of XML, JSON and YAML data
• BBC Radio Player - Happy Birthday / RIP - Nostlgia from Dan Taylor
• BBC Internet Blog : iPlayer
• My iPlayer and EMP bookmarks
• From Barley To Barlesque - Mat Hampson writes about implementing the new visual language for BBC websites
• Downloading Top Gear Legally: Why I Joined the BBC - iPlayer’s Anthony Rose talks fast cars and DRM (video)

A selection of sites using the new Embedded Media Player :

July 2008

bbc.co.uk homepage, Bonekickers, BBC Wales Nature, Lab Rats, /programmes, Chinese Food Made Easy, Radio1 : Live Lounge, Proms 2008, CBBC relaunch, Dragon’s Den, T In The Park 2008, Eisteddfod 2008, Spooks Code 9, 1Xtra : Summer, The Wrong Door, Cambridge Folk Festival

June 2008

Euro 2008 live,Wimbledon live, Wimbledon : Tarango & Cash podcast, News Channel with pop-out, Archive: Birth of the NHS, Last Choir Standing, Glastonbury, Top Gear, Ouch!, Russels Brand’s Viddycast, Oceans, iPlayer 2.0 with Radio, Bryony makes a zombie movie, Britain’s Missing Top Model, Asian Network : Friction, BBC Press Office

May 2008

The Future Role of Public Service Brodcasting, Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Springwatch, Headroom, Eurovision 2008, Kermode Uncut, The Speaker, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chelsea Flower Show, Blast, Scotland, BBC News Channel Simulcast, The Culture Show, Liverpool 08

April 2008

Doctor Who, Radio 3 Awards for World Music, iPlayer for Wii, BBC News + house ads, Thread, Proms 2008 - video, Proms 2008 - audio, The Graham Norton Show, Heroes, Gardeners’ World, Archive - Titanic, Out Of The Blue, Bare Facts, Medieval Season, BBC News - full launch, The Wall, Comedy Map, Have I Got News For You, Young Musician of the Year 2008, Made In England, The Editors, Sunday Life, The Apprentice

March 2008

Last Man Standing, Archive - White Season, White Season, BBC News - soft launch, North West 200, Choir Wars

February 2008

BBC Three Simulcast, The Passion