Wow, very impressive plans for the BBC UK website, which will be redesigned to add a lot of familiar Web 2.0 standards (user-generated content, tags etc.) The whole thing will be structured around the three pillars of "share, find, and play" (so 2.0).
Mr Highfield said the share concept would allow users to "create
your own space and to build bbc.co.uk around you", encouraging them to
launch ther own blogs and post home videos on the site.
The BBC
is also running a competition to revamp the bbc.co.uk 2.0 website,
asking the public to redesign the homepage to "exploit the fuctionality
and usability of services such as Flickr, YouTube, Technorati and
Wikipedia".
At the heart of the play concept is MyBBCPlayer,
which will allow the public to download and view BBC programming online
and was today rebranded as BBC iPlayer.
"BBC iPlayer is going to
offer catch-up television up to seven days after transmission," said Mr
Highfield. "At any time you will be able to download any programme from
the eight BBC channels and watch it on your PC and, we hope, move it
across to your TV set or down to your mobile phone to watch it when you
want."
It's a major newspaper morphing into MySpace, right before our eyes ;)
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