Posts Tagged “google”
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Ah, what a crazy couple of weeks. If you haven’t read about this on my portfolio, here’s a snippet about this campaign:
“This was a very last minute project that I had the chance to work on. On my meeting to another project, I received a call from the creative agency asking for my help to get this YouTube and GCN centric campaign off the ground and turned around within 4 working days. It started off with a multi-stage YouTube brand channel that coincided with the launch of the teasers and adverts for the new 3D LED TV. I then also had to work on MPUs and a masthead for the YouTube homepage. Overall it was a pretty awesome project, one that had to be done quite fast (within 16 working days) and one that’s come off pretty well.”
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Tags: 3d, ads, brand, channel, gcn, google, led, masthead, mpu, mpus, samsung, tube, tv, you, youtube
Posted in APIs, Actionscript 3, Design, Development, Flash, Photoshop, Python, XML |
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
It’s been a very very very busy start to 2010, but who am I to complain? I’ve been working on a number of high profile projects and they’re all very close to launching. However, the first to launch is a project I built for the Google/YouTube Italy’s marketing department: That’s Opera Talent Contest.
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Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3, appengine, appspot, as3, gdata, google, proxy, Python, thatsoperatalent, youtube
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
What a shame. YouTube officially doesn’t support “iframes” when it comes to OAuth and AuthSub. That’s a bit of a pain, but have no fear, I’ve found a way around it.
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Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, api, as2, as3, authsub, cookies, gdata, google, iframe, JavaScript, oauth, youtube
Posted in APIs, Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Development, JavaScript |
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
This is a bit of a pointless post, but have just realised where I am on Google rankings for the query: “freelance designer and developer“.
Now yes, while I do understand that it’s got a lot to do with the title of my site, it’s just good to know that all those tutorials I’m writing are having a positive effect on my portfolio and blog! Hopefully, might see a rise in site traffic, but I won’t sell out with ads 
Tags: google, rank, seo
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Now it may come as no surprise that even the most well oiled machine has it’s flaws, that being said YouTube isn’t an exception to the rule. Unfortunately sometimes users and videos get lost amongst the mass of videos being uploaded to YouTube.
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Tags: api, APIs, error, gdata, google, video, you, youtube
Posted in APIs, Development |
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Today was a day for phone calls. I came in to the office at around 9am and then went up stairs for a heartly Google breakfast (they’re free by the way!). When I came back down to my desk, I think it may have been around 9:40am, I had five missed calls! And about seven emails. All from recruitment agencies, all wanting to fit me in some time or another with their clients. Crazy.
Well I guess it’s a bit of a blessing. I was a bit worried last week about whether I was going to bum around next week, but it doesn’t seem so. I’m just waiting for confirmation about a week working at Imagination in London. Then I’ve had offers from BBC for the following week, not forgetting Skype or MediaCom. And to top this off, today I had an interview with BSkyB, wow.
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Tags: bbc, bskyb, contract, contracting, freelance, freelancing, google, imagination, mediacom, poke, rant, sky, skype, work
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
A few weeks back, my colleague Matt Woodfield began playing with the Android SDK and from that Twidgit Lite was born!
It’s simply a little widget that you can place on your Android phone’s desktop and set the interval at which it gets the latest tweet on your profile! It’s a great tool! Compared to the likes of Twidroid and other Twitter Android apps, Twidgit has a fantastic interface, something that’s quite rare amongst Android Apps.
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Tags: Android, apk, google, matt, phone, twidgit, twitter, widget, woodfield
Posted in Android, Development, General |
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
I’m in the middle of creating a new YouTube gadget and part of the specification is that it allows the user to see the videos on a time-line. The idea behind it is that companies can then have a simple and sleek gadget that allows them to display their videos, whether they’re viral or community influenced (much like Sprite’s Green Eyed World), in a simple time-line sort of format.
So using the MVC code I created for my other gadgets I was able to easily adapt it, create a new 2D carousel and then was left with the task of creating the visual time-line control and also sorting the videos by their date. Now the YouTube GData API allows you to pass a parameter called “orderby” with the value “published” which returns the entries according to when they were uploaded, the latest first.
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Tags: Actionscript 3, api, APIs, brand, carousel, feed, gadget, gadgets, gdata, google, playlist, playlists, search, videos, you, youtube
Posted in APIs, Actionscript 3, Development, XML |
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
My time at Google is nearing an end and it seems that while my department want to keep me on, Google believes that because of the economic climate that all contractors are to be let go rather than kept on, regardless of how good they do they’re job.
It’s a shame, over the past six months I’ve seen a number of great individuals leave because of this rule and while it doesn’t make sense, I’m not angry about it.
You see Google will never be short of money, they literally have a hose pipe of funds being pumped into them through advertising and it’s amazing how far they’ve come. So I guess the reason behind this is to uphold a sort of facade to the rest of the world that while they’re doing bad, a company as unlikely to be touched by the recession as Google is also doing bad too.
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Tags: advertising, agencies, build, contract, Design, Development, economic, economy, freelance, google, industry, job, jobs, marketing, recession, recruitment, skills
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