Planet Earth

One of the things I like most about bbc.co.uk is that, every time I visit the site I discover something new and quite incredible. Either that or a tweak to something already brilliant to make it even better.

The latest addition thats grabbed my attention (and forced me to waste about an hour) is the Planet Earth Explorer.

It’s basically a flash app with a rotating globe that lets you zoom in and view a variety of BBC produced video clips from that part of the world - you can also save your clips in a folder.

Apparently it will be regularly updated with new video from the BBC Natural History Unit and they’ve made all the clips available in Real for anyone without Flash (although I’d guess flash would be more widely available than real to be honest).

Again (as with other BBC projects) I would have liked to have seen more organic features in this - for instance - the abillity for users to add their own video clips, photos and audio to different areas but I’m sure that will happen eventually.

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