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Build what you want using BBC content

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http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
Build what you want using BBC content

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.
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My avatar uses this.

Or rather it did before it broke.. :wink:
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onion2k wrote:My avatar uses this.
LOL... onion, your avatar is offline today? I just have a placeholder :P

This looks like it will be a very useful resource indeed.
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Fixed it now. The caching system had gone wonky.
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something for me to play with this weekend? yeah, and here I though I might having nothing to do.
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yup, way better, of course, than facing the beautiful weather in "The Outside" ;)
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patrikG wrote:yup, way better, of course, than facing the beautiful weather in "The Outside" ;)
Well I overcome that issue by taking my laptop out into the garden and working in the sunshine using wi-fi for net access... can be a pain reading the screen sometimes though :(
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Yeah, I hate the sun as well (ok, I stop the teasing now ;)
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garden what garden? flat living can be such a paing at times. oh well open the curtians, windows and door. get the fresh, cool air at least.

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Re: Build what you want using BBC content

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patrikG wrote:http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
Build what you want using BBC content

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to use BBC content. This is your BBC. We want to help you play.
Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers ;)
Kewl.

Any other ideas for getting free (non-article) content?

(I have Steve Ballmer ringing in my head now thanks to u).
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Simulacrum wrote:(I have Steve Ballmer ringing in my head now thanks to <span style='color:blue' title='ignorance is bliss'>you</span>).
At least someone got the joke :)
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patrikG wrote:
Simulacrum wrote:(I have Steve Ballmer ringing in my head now thanks to <span style='color:blue' title='ignorance is bliss'>you</span>).
At least someone got the joke :)
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you forgot "Developers" ;)
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patrikG wrote:you forgot "Developers" ;)
But that would disturb my delicate sense of logic.

If anyone is still in the dark over this, check out "Dance, Monkey Boy Dance" at http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html A few years old, but still a classic.
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