Round up: history of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Backstage
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| 16:03 UK time, Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Back in October it was announced that Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Backstage was to close.
Well that's happening today. But not without a celebration of Backstage's history.
Jemima Kiss on the Guardian's PDA blog: :
Originally conceived as a way of 'getting the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's data out', it was based around the Backstage website which offered a range of APIs for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú services and content, documentation about experimental projects and later organised large-scale hack events, where external developers and designers would intensively code and compete to build yet more experimental tools.
There's an ebook "Hacking The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú: A Backstage Retrospective" :
This ebook is a snapshot of some of the projects and events that Backstage was involved in, from its launch at Open Tech 2005, through the triumph of Hack Day 2007 and the shot-for-web R&DTV, to current visualisation project We take a diversion to Bangladesh to see how a Backstage hacker helped the World Service keep reporting through the horrendous Cyclone Sidr, and look at the impact of the 'playground' servers, used inside the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú.
Front cover of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Backstage ebook. Design by Nicola Rowlands
And finally on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Backstage blog itself:
"It's been an amazing five years but finally the servers are powering down on the backstage.bbc.co.uk (to be official) project.The legacy of backstage will live on..."
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online
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