Sessions

• Alia Sheikh: Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP
• Sam Davies & Michael Evans: Cool Accessibilty Hacks and Subtitles

Christian Heilmann from YDN talks about YUI and SearchMonkey

At Mashed this year, we're providing you with an entire DVB-T Multiplex to hack. We're pretty excited about this: digital television is a great untapped resource for hackers, with over 100Mb/s of broadcast-quality audio, video and data streaming into 85% of the country's homes. Surely that demands more from the geek community than just some PVR software?

Steve Jolly will give an outline of Digital TV, how it works and what you can find on and do with our own fantastic Mashed TV service; Nick Gallon will then talk about Interactive and IPTV development, and how you can create your own interactive applications right here at Mashed:

The BBC has long had an association with MHEG, right back to the dawn of digital terrestrial television in 1998 when it was implemented as the interactive middleware in set-top boxes deployed as part of the Ondigital subscription service.

This has since morphed into the highly successful Freeview platform and is now the leading uk digital television service with a place in approximately 8 million homes. As an Open Standard, MHEG itself has continued to evolve and offer improved interactivity to the viewer alongside increased functional opportunities to the application developer. Now incorporated as the middleware of choice in the new Freesat service and becoming increasingly prevalent across the world from Europe to Hong Kong and New Zealand, the BBC is striving to encourage and foster the development community in this little known declarative language by producing and open sourcing an SDK known as MHEG+.

This toolset will hopefully enable interested developers to create content for Interactive and IPTV services. This talk will cover the MHEG+ toolset, how it might be used by a developer to create services without access to expensive broadcast equipment and how it can make use of, and manipulate, web content for the TV screen.

Andy Smith talks through some of the new technologies behind the latest iPlayer site. XML feeds, examples, guides and links at http://ymkm.com/mashed

Pamela Clark from NASA will be talking about ANTS - not the small creatures who steal your picnic - but the Autonomous NanoTechnology Swarm project from Goddard Space Flight Centre.

If you want to see the next but next but one Mars rover - this is the talk to attend.

bbc.co.uk/programmes provides a permanent, findable home on the web for the 1000s of TV and Radio programmes broadcast every day by the BBC.

Join us for a behind the scenes look at what we've got, what we're getting and what we've brought for you to play with this weekend.

More info on the BBC APIs page.

Do you still vacuum your house? Wouldn't you rather spend your time doing fun stuff? Robots can already vacuum your home and have similar costs to normal vacuum cleaners. There are lots more things robots can do for us - remember not all robots have wheels!

This session will introduce Microsoft's robotics technology which is delivered using XNA gaming technology and Internet web service technologies. With some key additional technologies writing robot applications is a lot easier than it sounds.

Using the Visual Simulation Environment you will learn how to build your own simulated world in which to test your robotic ideas with a variety of robots, maybe linking the simulation directly to real world web services and mash-ups. Explore just how to make that robot vacuum the floor and get you a beer from the fridge :-)

• http://carma.org/api
• http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/
• < a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/api/">http://sunlightlabs.com/api/

Last year Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle to the public for the first time - since then it's launched in beta and is taking on the world.

What's changed? What's new? How can you use it?

New to backstage.bbc.co.uk? Or just want to know what we've been up to for the last 12 months.

Join Ian Forrester as he brings you up to speed with the BBC's coolest project.

Kamaelia is an open source project from BBC R&D. It makes prototyping new and interesting systems simple. Kamaelia systems are naturally concurrent and transform easily into production quality, maintainable systems.

It is useful for things from 3D systems through building PVRs through video playback, through shot change detection, through P2P distribution (live and bit torrent), through whiteboards, handwriting/gesture recognition, speech generation, and games systems, and back through DVB on both the reception side and broadcast side, and lots more not mentioned...

This talk will introduce Kamaelia, helping you get started - complete with a new release to boot!

• Website: http://edit.kamaelia.org/Developers/
• Introduction: http://edit.kamaelia.org/NewIntroduction
• Toybox: http://edit.kamaelia.org/Components
• Cookbook: http://edit.kamaelia.org/Cookbook
• Get Mashed with Kamaelia

Discussion Thread in the forum

Come and sit with some of the most traveled people around.

Chris Boden will be launching Lonely Planet's first ever set of developer tools and APIs at Mashed.

Get exclusive access to those tools and content, and find out how to build something you'll find invaluable on your next trip.