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Posted Fri, 10/12/2010 - 15:20 by Mark Russell
This post has been published on behalf of DotGovLabs
Posted Thu, 25/11/2010 - 15:58 by David Mann
Word of warning to all our syndication partners, the platform will be unavailable between 4 and 6PM today for essential maintenance. Directgov and FCO feeds will be affected.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Update: Our upgrade work was successful. Normal service has now resumed.
Posted Wed, 03/11/2010 - 10:40 by Michael Fuchs
This article is third in a series on the evolution of Directgov innovate's architecture for embeddable HTML widgets. (Part one was The Architecture of the English Widget and part two was Widgets ][ - When iframes Attack.)
Now on with our third generation architecture.
Posted Wed, 03/11/2010 - 10:40 by Michael Fuchs
In our first of three articles on widget architectures, we covered innovate's first generation of widgets: embedded code snippets, with all inline styles and javascript. (As well as some more clever widget engines which allowed configuration and customisation of widgets before downloading.)
Now in part two, we are going to run down the next phase of our widget evolution: generation two, which we implemented as full-featured web environments encapsulated in iframes.
Posted Tue, 02/11/2010 - 11:06 by Michael Fuchs
As you will not have overlooked, there has within HMG been a significant and growing trend toward opening up government data, as well pushing data out and making it as accessible and useful as possible.
Posted Fri, 29/10/2010 - 16:29 by David Mann
Innovate has added a new widget to the stable, a travel news ticker.
The data comes from the syndication feeds we developed for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. You can read a blog post on it by Jimmy Leach, Head of Digital at FCO.
Posted Mon, 25/10/2010 - 10:51 by Mark Russell
We'd like to see what kinds of applications you developers might be able to make from our syndicated feeds. Below is a quick brief for an application we're calling the Ultimate Holiday App but if you've got another great idea, especially one that combines multiple feeds,
feel free to submit it to us too.
As you'll know, we syndicate the following content from across UK Government sites:
Posted Mon, 18/10/2010 - 17:52 by David Mann
Widgets developed by Directgov Innovate have now racked up over 2.3 million views since launch so we thought we'd share some numbers with you.
Posted Thu, 14/10/2010 - 15:47 by David Mann
Directgov Innovate has launched a beta syndication platform for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) which allows you to use FCO travel advice on your own websites and applications.
The feeds include a country list, summary or full travel advice and embassy/consular contact information in Atom, Json and vCard formats.
You can access the feeds and read the terms and conditions of use here.
Posted Thu, 30/09/2010 - 18:05 by David Mann
Directgov is releasing a dataset of ratings for each of the information articles on the Directgov website.
The data will be made available via data.gov.uk, from Friday 1st October.
The initial release includes data for March and the first couple of weeks of April 2010. More data will be released in the coming days so please check back.
