Living TV's new reality show Four Weddings starts on Monday night with a live social television experience powered by our forthcoming reac.tv platform. Live comments with Twitter integration sit alongside a realtime rating gadget that lets the audience decide who they think should win. This is really exciting for us, as it's the first test of reac.tv and a taster of what's to come.
BBC Open Air Location-based search goes live
01 Jul 2009
BBC Open Air is a research project that's looking at location-based mobile search, and how this can be used by the BBC to give people local information. It currently contains weather and Breathing Places events, and uses Google Gears to get Location from the device.
We've just launched a new Lions Rugby app for telegraph.co.uk which streams live comments from an array of sources. Users can add their opinions alongside those from Twitter and the Telegraph's own journalists. It also allows people to login with Facebook Connect and Twitter, making their conversation appear beyond the telegraph site.
Monterosa has been commissioned by the BBC to rebuild and co-produce an new version of BAFTA award-winning Celebdaq.
The all-new game will be socially-enabled, featuring integration with Facebook Connect and Twitter.
Celebdaq Mk II launches in the summer.
Apprentice Predictor sees its last Episode. For Now.
22 Apr 2009
We've been busy building and supporting The Apprentice Predictor with FremantleMedia and the series is now finished.
It was powered by our EnMasse platform, and lets you pick who you think will get the boot from Sir Alan. The longer you keep your choice selected, the more points you win. The whole experience runs in realtime alongside the simulcast or TV.
New F1 Circuits launched on BBC Circuit Guides
22 Apr 2009
The latest version of BBC F1 Circuit Guides has just gone live, with Bahrain, Spain and Monaco added. Monte Carlo was particularly challenging!
Big Wildlife Garden opens for Beta testing
06 Mar 2009
We're very pleased to announce Big Wildlife Garden's closed beta launch. 400 members of the Wildlife Gardening Forum have been invited to take part.
Big Wildlife Garden is a Natural England campaign that encourages people to help propagate the country's rich wildlife by making our gardens more hospitable. It aims to create a giant virtual nature reserve which engages gardeners, families and schools, helping them to manage and maintain their gardens while picking up tips from others.
Users register their garden on the site, and keep daily journals with photos and comments. As the gardeners build up their achievements they are awarded with bronze, silver, gold....then green certificates.
Monterosa EnMasse powers BBC Visual Radio trial
20 Jan 2009
Our realtime participation platform EnMasse has successfully powered BBC's Visual Radio trial project.
Using EnMasse to feed realtime data, BBC Visual Radio synchronises dynamically generated visuals with live radio and video broadcast. The visuals range from song and artist information, to live swingometers, live SMS messages. It ran every morning on the Chris Moyles show and featured guests like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Will Smith.
EnMasse ran flawlessley throughout, handling very large numbers of concurrent users with the help of Amazon's cloud computing service EC2.
Monterosa Formats launches EnMasse: Interview in exclusive broadcast with Keane
13 Dec 2008
On Wednesday 17th December at 7.30pm we launched our EnMasse: Interview format package live from keanemusic.com. Presented by Gavin and Stacy's James Corden, Keane fans were treated to 30 mins of a live, hilarious, fully two-way interview with the band.
By combining television production and live streaming video with our mass-participation platform EnMasse, we are able to stage two-way online events for huge audiences. Live events are exciting and compelling, which separates the content from the increasingly crowded on-demand world and can drive large amounts of traffic both during and after the broadcast.
The Keane event saw 2300 unique users during the half-hour show, with a huge 27% click-through rate to promotional items on the page.
Natural England commissions Virtual National Nature Reserve
28 Nov 2008
Natural England have commissioned Monterosa to build their Virtual National Nature Reserve. Garden owners with an interest in wildlife will be able to add their own garden (or balcony, window box, back yard) to the reserve and become part of the community. Members of the site will earn points and build their online status by adding wildlife-friendly features to their garden. The Virtual Reserve aims to outsize any of our actual Nature Reserves.
The site has a customisable widget-style interface and uses Google Maps to browse the reserve, pinpointing gardens throughout the country, with Natural England providing its wealth of contextual information around wildlife and gardening.
BBC Sport commissions multi-player quiz pilot
24 Oct 2008
BBC Sport has commissioned Monterosa to build a realtime multi-player quiz game. Based on the ever popular Quizoo, the live quiz will be piloted in November with a broad set of sporting questions. If commissioned permanently, the full version will include social competition, video, and regular topical content. The game will be powered by our EnMasse participation platform.
2nd Run! moves into paid development with CBBC
17 Sep 2008
The first Run! event took place in March 2008, and broke new ground in cross-platform entertainment and gaming. Monterosa Formats, our sister company is now working with CBBC on a phase of development. Run creator Marc Diamond will be working with writer Al Maccuish to create an entirely new type of animated and live-action online drama, which sits inside a live online game tournament.
Pokerstars.tv uses Monterosa EnMasse to power high-volume live chat events
18 Sep 2008
Pokerstars.tv showcases major live poker events, and in conjunction with partner Videojuicer, they've launched a real-time chat facility around their massively popular streaming coverage. Powered by Monterosa's EnMasse participation platform, it handles the big spikes in traffic associated with live events.
telegraph.co.uk teams up with Monterosa to launch real-time Football Rating and Prediction Tools for fans
17 Sep 2008
We're proud to announce the launch of The Daily Telegraph's new Football Tools - two new applications for football fans to predict the score of matches and to rate players in all Premiership and lower league matches.
The Rater and Predictor respond to live in-match changes such as substitutions, and are powered by our EnMasse real-time platform.
