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A l'heure où les contenus abondent sur Internet, il faut se différencier, proposer des formats innovants, utiliser des nouveaux modes de narrations pour intéresser les internautes !

Après une première expérimentation en mai dernier sur le thème de la Piraterie en Somalie, le lab  vous invite à découvrir le Web documentaire France 24 et RFI réalisé par le Studio Multimedia.

This year, there will be a Before "le Web08"!!!
It will take place at the OPUS Café (167 quai de Valmy 75010 Paris), and we will be present to talk about France 24 Lab and all the innovations for 2009! The party will be organised by the Open Coffee team.
To join, you can register freely at : http://fr.amiando.com/BeforeLeWeb08.html Hope we'll see you there...

FRANCE 24 is one of the first French media who recently launched a Facebook application dedicated to the news. It’s called ‘Actu Quiz’ in French (‘News Quiz’ in English).
Aim is simple: to pile up points by responding to a range of questions (5 each day) related to a news topic (politics, economics, sports and so on). Nothing actually to win, just being ranked as one of the best ‘Quizer ‘ of the community. Everyone can challenge his FB buddies by sending invitations to play.
It’s easy to play, it’s not time consuming: 3 minutes max per quiz.
There are currently 4 000 people registered to this application since the launch, October the 15th. An average of 200 new players per day.
URL : http://apps.new.facebook.com/actu_quizz/

How many times did you switch on the TV-set just 2 minutes after the beginning of the news ? How many times did you miss the main headlines ? With the classical VOD systems, you have to wait for the news to end to re-watch them. That's a shame ...

Now, imagine your TV-channel recorded permanently, allowing you to rewind just a few minutes before live ? You can now watch the news entirely ! Great... :-)

France 24 is now working with Yacast in order to put a "Rewind" function on its live videos. The developed system is permanently recording the France 24 stream in Windows Media format (and soon in Flash). The recorded sequences have a 5 minutes length. When the Internet user want to go back 10 minutes before, a request is sent to the streaming service which charges the requested video sequence positioning the timekeeper where to be. The following sequences are automatically inserted in a playlist so that the videos will follow on. The stream is a little bit delayed but not interrupted.

We will open on Friday 3rd October night a testing interface of this new application. The platform is for the moment Windows-compatible (IE, Chrome or Firefox). A streaming flash version will be released in November.

To receive an invitation for testing the application, simply register on the Facebook's Lab group (http://tinyurl.com/f24lab) before Friday 3rd October 6pm. You'll receive an email with the url and access codes.

Here are some feed backs from the NYC Web2.0 expo. The slideshow is in french, but we will soonly release an english version...

Since July 17, France 24 news content is available through an Iphone. You can access the service on the following website: iphone.france24.com.

Our channel has opted to privilege simplicity and speed of browsing by offering three rubrics, each providing a comprehensive view of the news:
- The “Headlines”, comprising the three leading stories followed by the first article from each major subject area.
- “Real-time newswires”, as provided by France24.com
- The “latest videos”: featuring the latest news bulletin, business bulletin and weather forecast.

The entire service is available in three languages : French, English and Arabic - you'll need to download an arabic fonts pack to see the site corectly. Special emphasis was placed on the video functions. In order to speed-up and simplify the loading process, the service provides sequences in low-speed quicktime connection (270kbs) (an optimal quality for progressive downloading on Iphone). Web developments are provided by Michel Levy Provençal’s team. Within the team, Elbou Elbechir was in charge of coding the website dedicated to the Iphone.

France24 videos are broadcast on the Iphone by means of an automatic VOD-creating system. The project is managed in-house by Francisco Simon Hernandez.

Technical details :
Web : Drupal
Video : H264 / MPEG4 in movie format at 270kb/s