bbc backstage\'s hot topics (4 conferences in 1 presentation)

backstagebackstage

Ian ForresterIan Forrester

Rain AshfordRain Ashford

What is Backstage?What is Backstage?• Encourage innovation and creativity in the 'web 2.0'

space, with a particular focus to work in the UK

backstage is a licencebackstage is a licence• A licence similar to the creative commons non-

commercial attribution licence but with a few extras clauses for the uk market

backstage is open data, feeds and api'sbackstage is open data, feeds and api's

• Champion "open culture" around the BBC and with that releasing data that can be made available on backstage

backstage is communitybackstage is community• Advocate the mash-up scene, and the individuals

who participate in it

So what's interesting?So what's interesting?

All new podcast line-upAll new podcast line-up• Web Literacy • e-Government• Privacy • Gifting economics• Micro credit & payments• Cloud Computing• Openness• Universality &

Interoperation• Data Portability• Art & Culture

• Net & Mobile Neutrality• Licensing• Linking data• Accessibility• Diversity• Participatory Panopticon• Participatory Culture• Transparency• Ubiquity• Trust• Play

Topics for todayTopics for today• Openness and portability• Cloud computing• Networked objects• Open Micro-blogging• Democratisation of Development• Education and Start-ups

OpennessOpenness

Licensing contentLicensing content

The Walled GardenThe Walled Garden• “you do know that Facebook is AOL 2.0, right?”

• If you want access to their big base of users, develop something in their proprietary language for their people who live in their walled garden.

• http://www.kottke.org/07/06/facebook-is-the-new-aol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artbikes/2758128317/

Open GardenOpen Garden

• “you should be able to use dopplr without going to the site...”

DopplrDopplr

Social normsSocial norms

• You should own your social graph• Privacy must be done right by placing control in your hands• It is good to be able to find out what is already public about

you on the Internet• Everyone has many social graphs, and they shouldn't always

be connected• Open technologies are the best way to solve these problems

• http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/09/were_opening_th.html

Bill of Rights for Users of the Social WebBill of Rights for Users of the Social Web

• Ownership of their own personal information, including:• their own profile data• the list of people they are connected to• the activity stream of content they create;

• Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; and

• Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites

• http://opensocialweb.org/

Data PortabilityData Portability

• We want control over the profiles, relationships, content and media we create and maintain, regardless of what platform they are hosted on

• We want open formats, APIs, protocols and policies for the data we control

• We want to protect user rights and privacy• We will recommend existing standards wherever possible

rather than inventing new ones

Google ChromeGoogle Chrome

Google EULA changeGoogle EULA change

• 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

IT does not matterIT does not matter

• “IT does not matter” - Nicholas Carr http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html

The internet as a utilityThe internet as a utility

Net Net neutralityneutrality

Traffic maps (world)Traffic maps (world)

Traffic maps (europe)Traffic maps (europe)

Cloud based thinkingCloud based thinking

Advanced cloud terminals?Advanced cloud terminals?

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Cloud computing giants - GoogleCloud computing giants - Google

Cloud computing giants - AmazonCloud computing giants - Amazon

Get satisfactionGet satisfaction

BaseCampBaseCamp

DowntimeDowntime

http://www.flickr.com/photos/henkc7/2654480651/

Server errorsServer errors

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silent_e/377757681/

Relying on the internetRelying on the internet

Networked objectsNetworked objects

Wireless rabbitsWireless rabbits

Networked consolesNetworked consoles

Networked MediaNetworked Media

Apple TVApple TV

BoxeeBoxee

OlindaOlinda

Metadata sourcesMetadata sources

Metadata sourcesMetadata sources

User generated contentUser generated content

Networked metadataNetworked metadata

Micro-blogging and life-streamingMicro-blogging and life-streaming

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmtucu/2286648067/

• Twitter• Jaiku• Lifestream• Plaxo Pulse• Facebook• Linked In• FriendsFeed• Indenti.ca• Plurk• Pownce

TwitterTwitter

More users and less featuresMore users and less features

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monstro/2718187284/

JaikuJaiku

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfig/2297533963/

Life streamingLife streaming

Life streaming copiedLife streaming copied

Life streaming copied by main playersLife streaming copied by main players

Ambient awarenessAmbient awareness

• “...the way that micro-updating tools like Twitter and Facebook give us a constant, floating sense of what everyone we know is doing, all the time”

• http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2008/09/the_age_of_awar.php

Open micro-blogging standardOpen micro-blogging standard

• Allows users of one microblogging service to publish notices to users of another service, given the other users' permission.

• http://openmicroblogging.org

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyonora/2527672384/

Federation with laconi.caFederation with laconi.ca

• Works like email, newsgroups and irc

Laconi.ca powered open micro-bloggingLaconi.ca powered open micro-blogging

Ping.FMPing.FM

Micro-blogging brokerMicro-blogging broker

Profile brokerProfile broker

bbc involvement with data portability?bbc involvement with data portability?

DemocratisationDemocratisation of development of development• Demystifying mashups and programming

• Adobe Thermo• Microsoft Popfly• Yahoo Pipes• Intel Mashup maker• RSS Bus• Pronto• Widget frameworks• Adobe Flex

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30018133@N06/2846424630/

Adobe AirAdobe Air

Adobe ThermoAdobe Thermo

Yahoo! pipesYahoo! pipes

ConduitConduit

PihlajaPihlaja

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97207134@N00/493765441/

bbc air applications and widgetsbbc air applications and widgets

The next generationThe next generation

http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathoov/2429731460/

Education and startupsEducation and startups

• If the best hackers start their own companies after college instead of getting jobs, that will change what happens in college. Most of these changes will be for the better. I think the experience of college is warped in a bad way by the expectation that afterward you'll be judged by potential employers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathoov/2429731244/

Education and startupsEducation and startups

• One change will be in the meaning of "after college," which will switch from when one graduates from college to when one leaves it. If you're starting your own company, why do you need a degree? We don't encourage people to start startups during college, but the best founders are certainly capable of it. Some of the most successful companies we've funded were started by undergrads.

Education and startupsEducation and startups• I grew up in a time where college degrees seemed really

important, so I'm alarmed to be saying things like this, but there's nothing magical about a degree. There's nothing that magically changes after you take that last exam. The importance of degrees is due solely to the administrative needs of large organizations. These can certainly affect your life—it's hard to get into grad school, or to get a work visa in the US, without an undergraduate degree—but tests like this will matter less and less.

Education and startupsEducation and startups

• As well as mattering less whether students get degrees, it will also start to matter less where they go to college. In a startup you're judged by users, and they don't care where you went to college. So in a world of startups, elite universities will play less of a role as gatekeepers. In the US it's a national scandal how easily children of rich parents game college admissions....

Education and startupsEducation and startups

• The greatest value of universities is not the brand name or perhaps even the classes so much as the people you meet. If it becomes common to start a startup after college, students may start trying to maximize this. Instead of focusing on getting internships at companies they want to work for, they may start to focus on working with other students they want as cofounders.

Education and startupsEducation and startups

• What students do in their classes will change too. Instead of trying to get good grades to impress future employers, students will try to learn things. We're talking about some pretty dramatic changes here.

bbc backstage university tourbbc backstage university tour

A BBC Micro for the 21A BBC Micro for the 21stst century? century?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996583811

A creative remix/sharing future?A creative remix/sharing future?

Thanks... any questions?Thanks... any questions?

Ian Forrester : Senior Backstage ProducerIan Forrester : Senior Backstage Producerbackstage.bbc.co.ukbackstage.bbc.co.uk