iPlayerist by Geography

iPlayerlist is an interesting application that takes shows available via the BBC iPlayer and allows you to find them by topics, times and other attributes. Andy @ mibly.com has just rolled out an enhancement that uses the new Calais geo-location capabilities to find shows based on the locations mentioned in their descriptions. Available here I think it’s a great example of a simple, clean way to improve the user experience using semantic metadata extraction. Unfortunately viewing many of the resulting videos won’t work unless you’re in the U.K. This isn’t iPlayer’s fault – it’s a limitation the BBC has put in place.

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Calais Geo Location Tutorial and Demo App

Guilhem Vellut has put together a nice demonstration app that shows the Calais geo-location features in action. While I really like the application (you can see it here) it’s the blog post he wrote giving the details of exactly how he built the applications – including code samples – that’s really great. By investing the time to document what he did and how he got everything working together he’s provided a great jumpstart for anyone else wanting to experiment with Calais geo-location. Thanks!