May 2nd, 2008 by Matt Webb · 4 Comments

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I’m pleased to be able to bring you Olinda, the social radio prototype we’ve designed and built for BBC Audio & Music.
Tristan Ferne, who commissioned Olinda and leads the BBC Radio Labs, is currently at the Futuresonic Conference, discussing what happens when you put social networks and the Web inside consumer electronics – in particular, [...]

December 20th, 2007 by Schulze · 11 Comments

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A couple of months back I visited Tom and Durrell at Luckybite to discuss some of the Olinda development. During our conversation, Durrell described one of his favourite portable radios, the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 600. I bought one.

The range was produced between 1971 and 1981 and aside from its elegance and good audio quality, [...]

Last week, Tristan Ferne who leads the R&D team in BBC Audio & Music Interactive gave a talk at Radio at the Edge (written up in Radio Today). As a part of his talk he discussed progress on Olinda.
Most of the design and conceptual work for the radio is finished now. We are dealing with [...]

August 20th, 2007 by Matt Webb · 11 Comments

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If you asked me to pick the two cards Schulze & Webb play with abandon in the consultancy game, they’d be Product and Experience.
Products should be what toy companies call shelf-demonstrable–even sitting in a box in shop, a product can explain itself to the customer (or at least tell its simplest story in a matter [...]