iPhone podcast service is first fruit of BBC ‘10% time’

Posted by Paul McNally on 15 November 2007 at 11:01
Tags: BBC, iPhone

The BBC has made all of its podcasts available to download wirelessly using Apple’s new iPhone and iPod Touch.

The project is the first to be completed by the BBC’s Future Media and Technology (audio and music) department using “10 per cent time”, a working practice implemented by its new head, James Cridland.

The idea, borrowed from Google’s “20 per cent time”, dictates that every employee should be allowed to spend a fraction of their working week away from their normal job, developing new ideas and working on different projects.

The iPhone service was the brainchild of two web developers in the BBC’s future media and technology department, Chris Johnson and Simon Cross, who has more details on the BBC Radio Labs blog.