Radio Pop upgraded
Our prototype has now been live for just over 2 months () and we've just rolled out a small upgrade to the site. The new features aren't groundbreaking but we'd like to know what you think.
As part of his , has very kindly added support to Radio Pop. Fire Eagle is a location-broker service from Yahoo that consumes and provides location data in a secure way. Now from your Settings tab in Radio Pop you can authorise Radio Pop to set and get location data from Fire Eagle. At the moment the support is very basic - once you've authorised Radio Pop and Fire Eagle to work together then your Friends page will indicate whether any of your friends are nearby, assuming they've also activated Fire Eagle - look for the map pin icon. It is just looking for whether they are in the same city as you and displays no more information than that. We don't do anything else with the data and we never display your exact location to anybody. The Settings tab also has a textfield for you to easily send your current location to Fire Eagle.
That's quite basic functionality at the moment but we've had other ideas such as storing the location alongside each of your Listens or showing the geographical distribution of listeners to particular radio networks. What would you like to use the Radio Fire Pop Eagle for?
The other features to be added in this release are also simple additions to the page. When you're signed in then that page now shows a list of other users you might know. It's basically friends-of-friends who have at least two of your current friends in common. And it also shows whether any of your friends are listening right now - just hover over the headphone-wearing friend icon to see what they're listening to.
We're not going to be doing a huge amount of work on improving Radio Pop in the future but I know a few of you are regularly using it so we will be keeping it going for the time being. The reason for this is that there are some really exciting projects happening around the 麻豆社 right now which should let you do most of the things that Radio Pop does, but integrated properly into bbc.co.uk. The R&D team is now starting work on our next project and you can expect to see a new prototype sometime early in the new year - all I can say is that it's got something to do with gaming and with instant messaging.
Comment number 1.
At 18th Dec 2008, David Brake wrote:How about integration with LastFM so that if we listen to a radio podcast and it gets scrobbled it can also get added to our Radio Pop profile automatically? I am almost never at a computer or online when listening - I am out and about and offline...
Comment number 2.
At 22nd Dec 2008, tsar_perknip wrote:Is the upgrade a 500 Internal Server Error? Because that's all I'm seeing.
Comment number 3.
At 23rd Dec 2008, tristanf wrote:Nope, that's not an intended consequence! We're trying to fix the problem.
Comment number 4.
At 24th Dec 2008, tristanf wrote:It's back up, sorry about the outage. Merry Christmas.
Comment number 5.
At 27th Dec 2008, tsar_perknip wrote:Fantastic. Thanks.
Comment number 6.
At 5th Jan 2009, philipp-grunwald wrote:Fantastic upgrade.
But what I miss even more, are more basic tools. Instead of supporting FireEagle, which is used by a minority of web users and of limited use:
I do miss a Radio Pop widget for the Windows Vista Sidebar or as an Adobe Air App (or maybe even an Yahoo! Widget), basically I do miss an desktop player, which also works on Windows and Vista!
I just don't understand why Mac is supported first in this case. Ok, many "geeks" (and early adopters) use a Mac, but not only geeks listen to 麻豆社 Radio and not all early adopters use a Mac. :-)
Comment number 7.
At 6th Jan 2009, tristanf wrote:We have plans for an Air app for Radio Pop, we're just waiting for the appropriate streams to come online.
Comment number 8.
At 29th Jan 2009, oz1982 wrote:awsome
Comment number 9.
At 29th Jan 2009, oz1982 wrote:hey guys kool
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