BBC Hackday 2008
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The BBC Hackday is a really fun event in which you are given 24 hours to develop a mashup. The only stipulation is that it must use one of the BBC's services. This page is for people to express an interest in joining a PHP London team for this year's event and for collecting project ideas.
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[edit] Interested People
[edit] Interesting Projects
[edit] Personality based news results
Get as much data as possible on the user from social networks etc. (perhaps using google's social graph) and then match this against bbc's news feeds to find articles the user may be interested in. Architecturally this would be pretty simple, however, algorithmically (in terms of the similarity matching) it could be as complex as we'd like to make it. I would see this as a project for only two or three people, possibly four or five if you include a nice ui, even so, probably not big enough for a php london team.
[edit] Real time BBC homepage
Read data from the BBC's RSS feeds and rank new stories according to perceived importance, then stream them to the browser in real time, and reorganise the user's BBC News home page in some kind of Javascript animation (inspired by a scene from Minority Report: Cruise gets on a subway train to find that the news of his escape is just breaking, and everyone's newspapers in the train carriage instantly change to clear away all the small stories and fill the page with the more important one). ~Andrew
[edit] Audible web traffic monitor
Record some sound loops and use them in conjunction with a real time log file analyser to construct an audio stream that represents traffic to a popular website. Tempo can represent traffic volume, other instruments can come in as the traffic spreads across different sections of the site, and we could have drum solos when someone registers/purchases something. ~Andrew
