Thursday, October 15th, 2009
After months of fruition, long transatlantic phone calls and late night code fixes, the fruits of our labour is now live for all to see: The Olympics ‘Best Of Us Challenge’. Go on, see if you can beat them!
It’s a great gadget and it’s really been worth it. I remember when I first got the phone call from the agency, Mekanism, who I must say are great and it’s been an absolute pleasure working with them, I thought that this is going to be a huge gadget. Again, it took a lot of determination, conference call, and lots and lots of new code and cleaning up of old code to get to this great gadget.
Now the last push is sticking it up on the brand channel but I’m sure that that’s coming very soon!
Much love to everyone who I worked with at Mekanism and I hope that they’re as proud of it as I am.
Tags: Actionscript 3, api, as3, authentication, brand, channel, contest, contestapi, gadget, microsite, player, upload, youtube
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
I’ve been looking at the stats for my blog and it seems a lot of people are searching for content about the YouTube Contest API. Now I know that there aren’t any external facing docs or tutorials, so I will write one up very soon on how to use it! I promise!
Tags: api, contest, tube, tutorial, video, you, youtube
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Recently while working at Google I’ve been asked to built some YouTube products, essentially brand channel gadgets built on the Google Gadgets API. YouTube has two main gadgets that they sell:
- YouTube Full-width Carousel
This is a simple carousel that allows the user to shuffle through some YouTube videos. It can work with both the GData API (so playlists, search and so on) and the YouTube Contest API (it’s a “closed” format at the moment, so information is only available on a “need to know” basis). It’s not the prettiest thing and there are a few things I don’t really like about it. But it works and that’s the main thing. You can see an example on the YouTube Live Channel.
- YouTube Full-width and Normal-width Contest
YouTube contests are a great way to engage the YouTube and web community. They provide a simple interface and API that allows you to register votes and views for certain videos. Good examples of this are the Davos Debates, Sprite’s Green Eyed World (although the developers missed a tricked and used Facebook comments rather than YouTube’s). You’ll notice that both the contest examples have custom gadgets rather than YouTube’s product. A good use of YouTube’s contest gadget would be the recent Barclaycard Create compeition. It’s a nice format, but again, the aesthetics of the template let it down and a lot can be done to improve and make it look and work much better.
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Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, api, APIs, carousel, contest, Flash, gadgets, gdata, google, papervision, pv3d, youtube
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