The websites include news from the BBC News Online, a sports section, music, science, technology and entertainment pages, amongst other things. As might be expected, the website has a British orientation, although the home page, news section and sports section each provide different content between UK and "International" visitors.
In February 2001, BBC Online incorporated Douglas Adams' previously independent h2g2 project into its group of web sites, and is now replacing all its existing message boards with the DNA software derived from that project. The site's Collective magazine also uses the DNA software.
The website has extensive technical information available about its operation. The BBC also makes some of the content on bbc.co.uk and the BBC News Website available in XML format on its developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk. Also, through participation in the Creative Archive Licence group, bbc.co.uk allows legal downloads of selected material via the Internet.
Children's
The BBC runs a comprehensive children's website sub-site. It includes information on all of CBBC's shows along with several sub-sites covering art, sport, news, and other current events. Its message boards are especially popular with children who use them to communicate with each other about all of CBBC's output among other salient topics for kids like bullying, books, and personal problems. The "Your Life" [21] page was especially geared to helping young people sort through their difficulties. "Your Life" featured agony uncle "Ask Aaron," a professional psychotherapist who provided regular answers to children's questions across the message boards. The "Your Life" page and its boards are now closed, and the agony uncle has moved on to Radio One's Sunday Surgery as their mental health expert.
The BBC also runs a message board for young people named onion street.
There is integration between television output and website content with aspects of children's programming have followup information on their websites.
BBC Blast
BBC Blast is the BBC's network for creative teenagers. It provides access to mentors both online and at free events and workshops across the UK. The website specifically caters for 13 to 19 year olds butthe BBC Blast project also runs a variety of work experience schemes for young adults between the ages of 18 to 25 Blast has been running since 2002. It includes a forum where participants can upload videos, audio tracks and images and comment on each others work. In the past the BBC Blast tour has featured workshops and talks with stars from a variety of backgrounds, including rapper Akala, director and actor Noel Clarke, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJs Ace and Vis, singer-songwriter Jay Sean, rapper Chipmunk and Panjabi Hit Squad.
Blast works with a number of partners to put on events and give content a chance to be promoted at a higher level. These partners include the Victoria and Albert Museum, RSC, National Portrait Gallery, National Theatre, Zoo Nation, and the British Film Institute.
On 24 January 2011, the BBC announced the closure of BBC Blast as part of a 25% cut to the BBC Online budget, resulting in a £34 million shortfall.[7]
Programmes
BBC Programmes is a service of BBC Online which provides a page for every television and radio programme broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was launched in October 2007 and gives each programme a eight digit alphanumeric identifier which is used to provide a permanent URL.[22][23] It currently only holds data from the launch date, but Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, said in June 2008 that the BBC will eventually add a page for each programme it has broadcast over its history to the service.[24]
The BBC Programme Catalogue is an internal archive of the BBC back catalogue which was briefly available online to the public in beta.
Streaming media
A service, called BBC iPlayer, was launched in December 2007, which allows users to download both radio and TV content for up to seven days after broadcast. The television version allows users to either stream programmes or to download them using peer-to-peer and DRM technology.
Initially streams were generally broadcast in the RealAudio and RealVideo formats controlled by RealNetworks and the BBC drew criticism with some for using those closed formats which, at the time, could only be played using RealPlayer. In response to such criticisms, the BBC negotiated a deal with RealNetworks a 'cut-down' version of RealPlayer which did not contain as much advertising and marketing.
Windows Media has also been adopted and since Autumn 2006, a Windows Media stream of all national BBC radio stations has been available.
More recently, the BBC has been experimenting with MP3 downloads and podcasting facilities for an increasing number of radio shows, with a high level of success[citation needed]; a less publicised trial of Ogg Vorbis streams for certain programmes was less successful, and has now been discontinued.
Tracking cookies and privacy policy
BBC Online uses several third-party companies to log information from users, by means of cookies. The BBC lists the companies it uses in its privacy policy:[25]
* Nielsen/Net Ratings and SageMetrics
* Nedstat
* Websidestory
* Doubleclick
* Bango
Users that block certain of these tracking domains will find certain parts of the BBC's websites inaccessible
In February 2001, BBC Online incorporated Douglas Adams' previously independent h2g2 project into its group of web sites, and is now replacing all its existing message boards with the DNA software derived from that project. The site's Collective magazine also uses the DNA software.
The website has extensive technical information available about its operation. The BBC also makes some of the content on bbc.co.uk and the BBC News Website available in XML format on its developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk. Also, through participation in the Creative Archive Licence group, bbc.co.uk allows legal downloads of selected material via the Internet.
Children's
The BBC runs a comprehensive children's website sub-site. It includes information on all of CBBC's shows along with several sub-sites covering art, sport, news, and other current events. Its message boards are especially popular with children who use them to communicate with each other about all of CBBC's output among other salient topics for kids like bullying, books, and personal problems. The "Your Life" [21] page was especially geared to helping young people sort through their difficulties. "Your Life" featured agony uncle "Ask Aaron," a professional psychotherapist who provided regular answers to children's questions across the message boards. The "Your Life" page and its boards are now closed, and the agony uncle has moved on to Radio One's Sunday Surgery as their mental health expert.
The BBC also runs a message board for young people named onion street.
There is integration between television output and website content with aspects of children's programming have followup information on their websites.
BBC Blast
BBC Blast is the BBC's network for creative teenagers. It provides access to mentors both online and at free events and workshops across the UK. The website specifically caters for 13 to 19 year olds butthe BBC Blast project also runs a variety of work experience schemes for young adults between the ages of 18 to 25 Blast has been running since 2002. It includes a forum where participants can upload videos, audio tracks and images and comment on each others work. In the past the BBC Blast tour has featured workshops and talks with stars from a variety of backgrounds, including rapper Akala, director and actor Noel Clarke, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJs Ace and Vis, singer-songwriter Jay Sean, rapper Chipmunk and Panjabi Hit Squad.
Blast works with a number of partners to put on events and give content a chance to be promoted at a higher level. These partners include the Victoria and Albert Museum, RSC, National Portrait Gallery, National Theatre, Zoo Nation, and the British Film Institute.
On 24 January 2011, the BBC announced the closure of BBC Blast as part of a 25% cut to the BBC Online budget, resulting in a £34 million shortfall.[7]
Programmes
BBC Programmes is a service of BBC Online which provides a page for every television and radio programme broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was launched in October 2007 and gives each programme a eight digit alphanumeric identifier which is used to provide a permanent URL.[22][23] It currently only holds data from the launch date, but Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision, said in June 2008 that the BBC will eventually add a page for each programme it has broadcast over its history to the service.[24]
The BBC Programme Catalogue is an internal archive of the BBC back catalogue which was briefly available online to the public in beta.
Streaming media
A service, called BBC iPlayer, was launched in December 2007, which allows users to download both radio and TV content for up to seven days after broadcast. The television version allows users to either stream programmes or to download them using peer-to-peer and DRM technology.
Initially streams were generally broadcast in the RealAudio and RealVideo formats controlled by RealNetworks and the BBC drew criticism with some for using those closed formats which, at the time, could only be played using RealPlayer. In response to such criticisms, the BBC negotiated a deal with RealNetworks a 'cut-down' version of RealPlayer which did not contain as much advertising and marketing.
Windows Media has also been adopted and since Autumn 2006, a Windows Media stream of all national BBC radio stations has been available.
More recently, the BBC has been experimenting with MP3 downloads and podcasting facilities for an increasing number of radio shows, with a high level of success[citation needed]; a less publicised trial of Ogg Vorbis streams for certain programmes was less successful, and has now been discontinued.
Tracking cookies and privacy policy
BBC Online uses several third-party companies to log information from users, by means of cookies. The BBC lists the companies it uses in its privacy policy:[25]
* Nielsen/Net Ratings and SageMetrics
* Nedstat
* Websidestory
* Doubleclick
* Bango
Users that block certain of these tracking domains will find certain parts of the BBC's websites inaccessible
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