A great week for public service
Posted on | December 20, 2009 |
The past week has been great, especially for public service in Sweden. Three somewhat unrelated events happened that, imho, strengthens the position of Swedish public service.
1. Swedish Television (SVT) released a mobile version of their awesome on demand service SVT Play. It includes support for all the major platforms such as Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile and is, of course, completely free. A long with the browser version SVT also announced their iPhone app for Play which was built by a team from Doberman that includes yours truly 
2. Swedish Radio (SR) released an much anticipated update of their iPhone application. It now features live radio as well as on demand shows from their archives. Their broadcasts are extremely good, free of ads and free to listen to.
3. SR also decided to join the hacker conference Music Hack Day that me and Mattias Arrelid from Spotify are organizing in Stockholm early next year. This is probably the coolest thing of the three. They have decided to not only join but also release a new API before the event. The API includes access to track listings, program listings and more. And as mentioned, they have an extremely valuable archive so hopefully this spawns a range of new and interesting mashups and web services.
Needless to say, Swedish public service organizations are stepping up their game and making our money worth. Kudos!
Tags: doberman > iphone > public service > radio > sr > svt > sweden > television
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December 21st, 2009 @ 00:33
Great post!
A question regarding the API. Any chance to hold of some docs before the event? Think it might suit my project very well. Not being forced to scrape HTML from sr.se would be neat
December 21st, 2009 @ 00:42
Don’t know actually but I will post an update on my blog if I get any info at all.
January 29th, 2010 @ 18:25
There is now information (in swedish) about the API at http://www.sr.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=2321&grupp=5968&artikel=3406644