Re: "I'm here now!": BBC's first location based service experiment for the Radio 1's Big Weekend audience.

Interesting to note that there is a dual privacy question (at least) here:  reveal your location, and associate yourself with that location/event in/to facebook.

(and there is a dreadful, new, grocers' apostrophe -- "that let's our audience share" -> "that lets our audience share".  The BBC's standard's are s'lipping).

On May 6, 2011, at 16:18 , Karl Dubost wrote:

> FYI
> 
> In BBC - The BBC Radio Blog: "I'm here now!": BBC's first location based service experiment for the Radio 1's Big Weekend audience.
> At http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio/2011/05/im_here_now_bbcs_first_locatio.html
> 
> audience to say "I'm here now" to their friends 
> while watching their favourite artists throughout 
> the day. The key thing is that they have to be 
> present at a stage to check in. 
> 
> So why are we doing this? This is an experiment to 
> help the BBC explore privacy issues around Check 
> Ins and ask whether the technology can enhance our 
> audiences' experience of similar events. By using 
> the latest mobile location technology, Facebook 
> Places and a bit of web design, we've built a 
> prototype that let's our audience share the 
> experience with their family and friends in a way 
> in which they're used to. We decided to use 
> Facebook Places because we believe most of the 
> audience at the event will have an account.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
> Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
> 
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 6 May 2011 23:47:57 UTC