reboot:bbc.co.uk

reboot:bbc.co.uk is a competition to redesign the BBC homepage, win some prizes and get yourself noticed.

The Brief

It might harness the wisdom of crowds approach by exploiting 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.
It has to represent and be a starting point for the BBC on the web. (but not just whats on BBC servers)
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

Also, take a look at the current bbc.co.uk page



Prizes

The Winner
The winner will receive a high end Apple laptop, a visit to the BBC and have their design implemented and showcased on the bbc.co.uk homepage later this summer.

The Runners Up
At least ten of what the BBC has to call "MP3 Players" are in the offing. The number and range of runner up prizes is more likely to be dependent on the volume and quality of entries.

All entries
All valid entries will be showcased on open.bbc.co.uk/reboot/

Judging.
Ultimately the winner will be judged by a panel of judges chaired by the BBC's Director of New Media and Technology; Ashley Highfield.

The closing date is May 25th.