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About reboot:bbc.co.uk

reboot:bbc.co.uk is a competition to redesign the BBC homepage., win some prizes and get yourself noticed.
But what are we after ?
For the rules, terms and conditions and the legal stuff then go here. For a brief then read on...

Ashley Highfield; the Director of New Media and Technology said this to the magazine; New Media Age on April 13th.

We want to allow Internet users to go into their own BBC space containing all the content they're interested in, all the TV shows they like and all the things they've played with on the Web. We need to come up with a personalised BBC homepage that will provide users with a starting place for their journey through BBC content and beyond

It might harness the wisdom of crowds approach by exploiting the the APIs and feeds offered by such services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube,Technorati, Wikipedia, and Yahoo!.
It could be influenced by "personalized" modular homepages such as Microsoft Live, Pageflakes, netvibes, and Google.
It could be a search box.
It could be a Giant Dalek.
It could be 1 link, it could be 250 links.
It could actually be a working prototype.
It could just be an illustration, a diagram or a picture.

We don't mind but it has to represent and be a starting point for the BBC on the web. (but not just whats on BBC servers)
It can't be bland.

It also has to think hard about to reflect how that page might illustrate how users might
• play hundreds of hours of BBCTV and Radio
• find their way through through millions of pages of content both on and away from our servers
• share your discoveries with your friends, peers, colleagues, enemies, and strangers.

Or it could just do one of these things.

The closing date is May 25th. Good luck.