Radio for the Facebook generationIn a world where social networking is all the rage, where does radio fit in? How can broadcasters help manufacturers develop new products, and help listeners discover new programmes, new music and new stations? Includes a practical demonstration using cutting-edge technology; and everything you need so you can take this idea and use it for yourself.

Tristan FerneBBC Audio & Music Interactive

Who?

BBC Audio & Music Interactive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/

Three things

Generation C

Radio Pop - social radio

Olinda - a new radio

Generation C

Content

Creativity

Control

Communities

Co-creative

Connected

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richard_am/116775447/

Communities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagezen/35413095/

Co-creative

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisphin/149804127/

Connectedness

http://www.flickr.com/photos/declanjewell/1832798806/

Some young people

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Actual radio for Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2357049935

radio POPSocial networking for radio

radio POP

Why?

Radio is very solitary, we don’t often sit as a family like we used to

radio POP

Why?

We want to show a sense of liveness and community, which is really important to radio, on the web

radio POP

Creation and Communities

1

10

100

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Create

Tag

Rate

Like

Listen

Creation and Communities

radio POP

Like

Listen

Creation and Communities

radio POP

Lean back

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karamanis/1767484748/

radio POP

Lean forward

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baboon/35353733/

radio POP

Supermarkets

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/840521675/

radio POP

Loyalty cards

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/4520242/

radio POP

What do we get?

Ownership

Diary

Personal

Community

Visualisation

radio POP

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Home page

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Your data

radio POP

...then add some friends

radio POP

...and everyone else

radio POP

Ways to listen

radio POP

Getting it out there

radio POP

Getting it out there

radio POP

Getting it out there

RSS feeds

Widgets

An API

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How it works

Radio Player

Facebook player

Listen Widget

Radio Player

Radio Pop pages

Widget

Facebook mini-feed

radio POP

API API

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“So if you want to tap into your amigos, let your pulse spread the good vibrations, and feel the buzz from the crowd - register for Radio Pop. The radio service of tomorrow, today!”

radio POP

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Olinda - a new radio

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Physical prototyping

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Why?

Think differently

Stimulate the DAB market

People like radios

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Build a future radio

We commissioned Schulze & Webb to build a real, working, physical prototype of a future radio

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Features

Form and interface

Modularity

Social

Licensing

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Form and interface

Adaptable behaviour

Two screens

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Form development

Shelf-demonstrable

It’s a radio

radio POP

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retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

Modularity

Connectedness

Hardware API

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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What modules?

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

The wireless

Wireless module

Social networking on your radio

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

vac cast resin

rubberised!nish on one face

machined polyurethane

machined alluminium

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“Open-source” hardware

An attribution licence

Anyone can use the ideas and design

All we require is attribution

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

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Building it

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

Olinda - a new radio

Look! They join up!

Olinda + Radio Pop

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Radio for the Facebook generation?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mscolly/145052885/

Olinda + Radio Pop

Radio Player

radio POP

API APIRadio Player

Radio Pop pagesretune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

retune, listeners (and “hearers”) are unlikely to mix their programming.

Building a minimal social network into the device opens up discovery once

more, and goes some way to solving a yet older problem: A radio ‘audience’

is not an audience in the sense of a theatre or music audience because they

cannot influence one another or the performers. They do not act as a group.

By introducing small social groups who may guide one another’s listening, we

point at the re-introduction of small audiences (in the traditional sense) as

the logical next step.

S&W

Page 9 of 15

Olinda

Olinda

Widget

Facebook

Facebook player

Listen widget

Next?

Talk about it

Work together...

A working Olinda radio

Appendix

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs

tristan.ferne@bbc.co.uk

Olinda images courtesy of Schulze & Webb