BBC shuts down failed £150m online service
An amazing amount of public money appears to have gone to waste after a flood of complaints to the BBC over its BBC Jam service. The BBC Trust released a statement, saying, “Despite a rigorous approval process… BBC Jam has continued to attract complaints from the commercial sector about the parameters of its activities.”
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Wow! Thats the first I’ve heard about this!
I worked on two of the Jam projects. The last one is (WAS) due to go live quite soon!
Comment by The Frase — March 18, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
Yeah, bummer hey? Sorry to hear about your stuff, but (hopefully) at least you got paid some of that £150 million!!
Comment by Zot — March 18, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
Yeah- I got paid! But only a few of those millions!
As the article stated- the projects were subjected to VERY rigorous approval process to make sure it was accessable and usuable for it’s target audience- school kids. So you had some pretty cool stuff being produced by a variety of studios (who had to pitch for the jobs).
The bummer is that it didn’t “fail”.
It’s been suspended by the European Social Commission due to a case from software developers upset that they were having their lunch cut by the BBC in delivering e-learning to schools.
Comment by The Frase — March 20, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
I hear ya bro. It sounds like a bit of a shamozzle.
Comment by Zot — March 21, 2007 @ 6:54 am