Twitgoo and Twistori

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Twitgoo is a quick, easy, reliable, and safe way to share images for Twitter. Twitgoo is operated by Photobucket Inc. which is an image and video sharing service that allows Users to store images and videos and share them across the internet and create unique personal profiles online. Twitgoo allows Users to upload images and videos and associate them with a unique URL to create online access to the images and videos for themselves and others.

A Twitgoo application for the Chumby has been developped by Andrew Howie (howdog) from Sydney.

Another Chumby app based on Twitter is Twistori, a first step in an ongoing social experiment, inspired by wefeelfine, hand-crafted by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs.

Internet Evolution

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Last update : October 8, 2012
Where is there and how do we get there from here ? was the topic of a panel on Internet Evolution, organized by the Internet Society at IETF 81 in Quebec, Canada.

Evolution occurs as a response to a stimulus. The panel explored different paths that Internet evolution could follow:

  • Natural evolution – letting market forces prevail
  • Top-down regulatory – return to the telco regime
  • Clean slate – repealing the laws of Internet physics
  • Or ?

The following five questions have been answered by seven contributors : Kenjiro Cho, Alissa Cooper, Jon Crowcroft, Geoff Huston, Bill St. Arnaud, Joe Touch and Jonathan Zittrain.

  1. Internet and Innovation : The Internet itself was an innovation and it has served as an open platform for unprecedented innovations in networking, applications and services for years. The data provides evidence that the Internet is becoming ‘flatter’ (increasingly direct interconnection of content and consumer). Is this necessarily part of a trend towards a less-innovative platform ?
  2. P2P Traffic : Is the relative decline in P2P traffic volume indicative of the triumph of business models over technology ?
  3. Dominance of Application Protocols : What is your perception of the import of the increasing dominance of a handful of application protocols—simplification ? ossification ? something else ?
  4. Internet Evolution Trends : What do these observable trends in Internet evolution mean for the future of the Internet ?
  5. Impact on The Future of the Internet : Any other observations or interpretations of these reports in terms of impact and import for the future of the Internet that you would like to share ?

The following links provide further informations about the Internet evolution :

Virtual Chumby

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Chumby is a content platform that serves flash-based apps across mutiple devices. Current chumby devices include :

  • Chumby 8
  • Classic Chumby
  • Chumby One
  • Sony Dash
  • Insignia Infocast
  • Chumby for Android

The Chumby Dashboard allows to create channels and to add apps to the channels. The display time per app can be customized (from a few seconds to a few minutes or forever). The channels can be selected on the Chumby device and the apps are shown sequentially.

A virtual chumby is a chumby that plays on any computer like a real chumby — except it’s doing it in cyberspace. The only difference with the virtual chumby is that it won’t show certain apps to protect your privacy.

The following virtual Chumby shows the channel marco from my Chumby account.

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Archos Android Home

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ARCHOS 35 Home Connect

ARCHOS continue to push technological boundaries and innovation with two new Android devices designed for the home – The ARCHOS 35 Home Connect, an Android-based web radio and the ARCHOS 35 Smart Home Phone, an Android DECT phone. Both are smart devices and feature all of the Android functionalities.

The ARCHOS 35 Home Connect is the perfect music box and the best portable Android device for streaming radio and music anywhere at home with an amazing sound quality.

The ARCHOS 35 Smart Home Phone will make owning a home phone popular again.

Both cutting-edge ARCHOS Android-based home devices, thanks to the front facing webcams, bring new usages such as video calling, baby monitoring and even room surveillance.

Initializr – HTML5 templates generator

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Initializr has been created by Jonathan Verrecchia to help the spread of HTML5 on the web.

Jonathan Verrechia is a french Web Developer, Author and Blogger working at SFEIR on HTML5 and CSS3. He is the author of the french book HTML5 – De la page web à l’application web, together with Jean-Pierre Vincent.

Initiallizr is a HTML5 templates generator whicht is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian.

Google Swiffy and Adobe Wallaby

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In July 2011, Google announced a new online tool called Swiffy to convert .swf files to HTML5. The converted html5 content can be viewed in any modern browser without needing a flash plugin to play.

Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0. Swiffy uses a compact JSON representation of the animation, which is rendered using SVG and a bit of HTML5 and CSS3.

Adobe Flash .fla files can be converted into HTML with Wallaby, an installable tool provided by Adobe as an experimental technology.

I tried to convert several .swf files, without success. The following errors occured :

  • The ActionScript function clearInterval is not supported
  • The ActionScript function setInterval is not supported
  • The #initclip pragma is not supported
  • Shape tweens are not supported
  • The ActionScript method MovieClip.getBytesLoaded() is not supported
  • The ActionScript method MovieClip.swapDepths() is not supported
  • The ActionScript method MovieClip.getBytesTotal() is not supported
  • The ActionScript method MovieClip.loadMovie() is not supported
  • An unsupported ActionScript instruction was encountered

 

Google Plus

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On june 28, 2011, Google rolled out a new social networking service called Google+. Right now, Google+ is in limited field trial to test with a small number of people, but it won’t be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone.

Basically, Google+ is an amalgamation of the following services :

  • Circles groups your friends together
  • Sparks helps you find interesting content based on interest
  • Hangouts lets you video chat with all your buddies
  • Huddles is a new group messaging app
  • Instant Upload shares your mobile photos

Further informations are available at the following links :

Create videos on Youtube

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YouTube recommends the following applications to animate your own story or to create a video slideshow.

  • GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. You can even create your own cast of characters.
  • Xtranormal lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Set up your scene, type in your script, and animate it instantly.
  • Stupeflix Video Maker lets you tell a story with your digital content. Mix pictures, videos, maps, text, music and watch Stupeflix produce a stunning video in a few seconds.
  • One True Media by SpotMixer is a simply powerful video creation tool. Robust, fast and easy video editing. Combine and clip video and photos.

Google Doodles – how do they do ?

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Last update : May 1, 2013

Neli S Gautham Raj [Linuxtree ] and M. Jeyaganesh [Cybergyaan ] created the website devlup, a community of young web developers, programmers and social media enthusiasts.

They published a series of tutorials about the programming of the interactive Google Doodles :

Other great contributions on the websites of the authors are :

Another developer interested in Google Doodles is Alvaro Montoro who created the jquery plugin imageCloud, based on the Christmas 2010 Google Doodle.

Youtube Custom Player discontinued

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In june 2011, YouTube removed support for the creation of new Custom Players, a specialized way of embedding playlists for playback on third party sites in a customizable interface. Existing players will continue to function. An example of a YouTube custom player is embedded in Cedrix Crespel’s music video webpage at Leslie’s Artgallery.

Similar functionality is available through creating embedded playlists, which can be accessed by visiting http://youtube.com/my_playlists, clicking Share, and then using the embed code given there.