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bit.ly, snurl, tinyurl are used by the BBC and many others.

What doesn't the BBC have its own short URL service?

Being a typical Brit I'm obsessed with the weather, but don't always have time to prowl around weather sites to find the forecast.

The BBC helpfully provide RSS feeds for their weather observations and forecasts, which could be displayed in an RSS reader.

But, being a Twitterer, I thought "How about sending the Feeds for a certain location to a dedicated Twitter account?"

They're fairly compact, but still exceed the 140 character limit imposed by Twitter. A combination of the information from the Title and Description would be useful, since both convey slightly different information; but there's a fair amount of repetition which could be stripped out.

Would be lovely for the BBC to supports its own codec which is open and free.

Theres been lots of talk about the BBC promoting Twitter in directly by mentioning it a lot on TV and Radio. So to avoid further problems and to keep control of there own destiny I'm proposing a range of solutions.

Information pages for every programme in textual format

Innovation appears to be a key way to solve many human/itarian problems. The space that this happens in is critical.

We are looking to collaborate with others who feel the same to create this entity. Please contact me vie the www.Whymandesign.com email addy to get invovled as we have exciting offers at the moment and need likeminded people to work with.


We are creating a self sustaining organisation that will provide a
location for young people to access the internet and collaborate
together all over the world in hard to reach areas and are looking to
produce this with an existing organisation that will benefit too. Could
we run this self sustaining project as part of your project as it would
be an extra service that increases peoples awareness of your great work
while facilitating collaboration on projects. Development website at
www.FREEtraid.org. Who should I talk to about creating Open Space Cafes with your organisation?

We are also looking for funding to kick start the production (as we will donate 100% net profit to fund the social enterprise that young
people create within the spaces ala Traidmark.org). Can you suggest any good sources of
funding?


I also set up the first two Progreso.org.uk cafe's in London creating
viral promotional material for them and volunteered as part of the team
that promoted the http://www.nodel.org/ arts festival in London.

ed www.Whymandesign.com

A way to aggregate common topics such as Beebcamp

iPlayer would be more useful to me if I could get alerts that programs I was interested in were available, chances are I would miss the window for watching them less.

It would also be really good if I could be alerted before my program was about to start on terrestrial TV.

In a little less than 4 years time, the world's eyes will be watching the Olympics in London, but in just that short amount of time, the way we view sports as a spectator will have changed incredibly. Everyday we are demanding more interactivity, more information presented to us in the way we want it, the whole rip-mix-burn culture will expect to the same with the BBC coverage of the 2012 games.

The types of devices that we will be using to watch the olympics and other sporting events will be different than they are today. The computers of 4 years ago were a fraction of the power of the machines we use today. Mobile phones will be as powerful, if not more, than the computer used to type this. So with all that power in small mobile devices, how can it be harnessed to better enhance the experience of spectators?

Sometimes I would like to find news that is happening in a certain area. This area might be quite small and I might be less interested in how recent the news is.

I may for example want to find all news that happened near my house in the last year.

At present, the iPlayer provides a short sidebar listing one's most recently viewed programmes, I wish to:
a) See what I have watched
b) See when I have watched it
c) See how many times I watch a certain programme
d) Reassign some programmes to different individuals that use this account/browser/cookie combination (i.e. exclude Timmy Time from my stats)
e) Optionally publish this information publicly, so that viewers with similar habits could find me, for example.

BBC news reporters may not be on site as something happens and therefore miss the opportunity to take the relevant pictures. If anybody could become content creator, more compelling content could be created. There needs to be a "feedback channel" though.

Many bloggers, fansite managers and wiki projects want to use stills and short video clips from BBC TV and radio shows.

However the contracts that the BBC has with the artists (actors, directors, writers) would make this use impossible without charging fees for "re-broadcast rights".

The BBC should email the public when the new series of enter tv programme starts again

The BBC now owns the twitter account bbc but isn't sure what to do with it.

There is a video outlining the problem and some of the solutions.

http://blip.tv/file/1791497

Online fantasy football games have been hugely popular, but they don't come with any video.

Also, the BBC shows a lot of football content, but could do more to personalise this content.

The general content articles such as those in the regional pages don't have social networking tags. So if you find any interesting article buried somewhere in the BBC website it isn't so fluid to share. See example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/articles/2009/02/24/momma_parsons_fag gots_feature.shtml

BBC News does it well, and has extensive social networking tags.

There isn't enough David Tennant or Dr Who on TV, we need more.

It would be great if it were possible to view BBC video news on the iPhone, in the same way that the BBC iPlayer works.

We've had the lovely tag-cloud design for backstage t-shirts and banners for two years, but as we need to get some more t-shirts printed it would be a great opportunity to ask the community to come up for a design that encompassed the ethos of Backstage.