I have a question for UK users.
About one year ago I did some work to integrate blueBill Mobile with the Nature Finder of BBC. The Nature Finder is a database related (also) to bird species (indeed, only the most common birds) providing some basic fact sheet about the bird and links to news and footage in BBC video archives. Indeed, for there's more fact sheet stuff at Wikipedia, but of course the linking to BBC news footage is a unique feature (which matches one of the purposes of blueBill Mobile, to give a "localized" experience of birding).
For instance, related to the "Black Grouse" there are, among other stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8114704.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007vzhz#programme
You can see what I did to integrate with blueBill Mobile here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/07/16/about-android-semantic-web-and-bbc
(the article has a technical perspective, so you'll probably find it boring; just look at the pictures and eventually watch the demonstration video).
At the time I froze the development, since BBC didn't distribute any Android app to consume their contents and all I could do was to open a web page at the BBC site - which wasn't optimized for the screen size of smartphones and thus the user experience was ugly.
But a few months ago BBC released an Android app for browsing their contents (
iPlayer). So it might be interesting to give the thing another try, as blueBill Mobile could launch iPlayer pointing to the desired contents.
Now, the problem. BBC footage can be only seen if you connect from within the UK and even the iPlayer app can only be installed by people living in the UK (I don't know whether the filter is applied on the internet connection you're using or to your personal profile; in the end, I can't install it). This makes it "a bit" harder for me to work on it, since I can't see the thing, but I could do it with some help from some UK users.
Before discussing the thing, it's worth while questioning whether this feature would be useful. I have some engineering motivations to do that, but they are not necessarily the same in the end user's perspective. I have also some personal motivation (BBC is cool and it had a great impact on me, my interests on nature and photography since the times of "The Living Planet" by sir David Attenborough), but since I can't see the provided contents I can't come to a conclusion (by the way, I don't ever know whether nature footage is available through iPlayer and this should be the first thing to check).
So please let me know what you think.