BBC Backstage is the BBC’s developer network that encourages the creation of non-commercial applications based on contents produced by the English television network. BBC offers these contents as RSS feeds and Apis, so that they can be easily manipulated and mixed with other information to create new services: mash-ups that use the Google Maps, billboards that brings real life news into Second Life, intelligent agents that answers via instant messengers t o people asking for latest news or weather forecasts. Ian Forrester and Matthew Cashmore are the two guys that are making all this possible and I had the pleasure to meet them in their office to talk about the project, its results and its future.

Questa intervista è disponibile anche in italiano nel blog di Nova 24: Intervista a Ian Forrester, Matthew Cashmore.

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