YouTube has put up a very liberal crossdomain.xml policy file, which would allow flash/flex apps consume it's GData based API without any server-side proxy.
You can read more on YouTube api-blog.
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We hear people asking questions, how to make swf (more) searchable? Is SWF searchable?
Not many people know, most of the search engines index text within swf files. My question is:
I have got different opinion on this entire idea:
Some questions:
Why do we need to prove swf is a good option? I think, it is. The whole idea of searchability applies to content, and I already said swf should not be seen as content (like html, xml, text, etc).
I can imagine a few ways to add search support without doing special workarounds, these are known things:
Structure (view metadata - heading, some info, etc) of application can be semantically encoded in html with appropriate deep-links to views in an application.
What you think about it?
Technorati tags: swf, search, deep linking, index
In my previous post, I mentioned about Mogulus while talking about Yahoo! Live. I thought, Yahoo! Live is like Mogulus but after playing with Y! Live, I realized it's totally different.
Mogulus is like a tv-channel and users(who broadcast) get their own studio. They can create content using existing data (video, images, text, audio, live-video-audio-feed) and do the programming (scheduling). Think of a tv-news-channel, where not only you get to see live-feed but various stories are in form of video, audio, text, images, etc.
Mogulus targets different audience, however, it would be great to see, if Mogulus allows embedding Yahoo! Live feeds in content/channels. Yahoo! Live has a developer API which can be used to fetch details about live-channels and embed in any app, even flash/flex apps. Not a bad idea though.
I think, Y! Live is very close to Ustream (and other similar services). BTW! Ustream allows an user to record the entire session (video, audio, chat) which can be played back later.
Technorati tags: mogulus, yahoo live, ustream, broadcast, channel, live
Just figured out, you can open Yahoo! Live in different tabs/windows and broadcast works everywhere. That's the coolness of LocalConnection. Simple algorithm, check if there is already an established-connection, use it, sweet :-)
I know it's old story now but I thought of posting about. Yahoo! Live is cool, I can see some interesting live channels.
The main Yahoo! Live application is done using Adobe Flex and using the power of the Flash Platform. Well do they have any better choice to do video/audio on web ? ;-)
Just wondering, how Mogulus and UStream are taking this news?
BTW! Does Y! Live filter f*** word in chat or voice-chat? I was on one of the channels and heard (beep) it getting filtered? If yes, how is audio-filtering happening in real-time?
Technorati tags: Yahoo Live, broadcast, mogulus, ustream
Yesterday at DevCamp, one interesting session was about Semantic Web and skepticism around it. I listened different perspectives. I realized, some part of discussion was around:
I have been advocating/using microformats for sometime, which is totally useful but above questions also make sense? Yesterday's discussion made me think more about it and I started finding about different perspectives/realities. I found an informative article series on ReadWriteWeb.
Let's help some web more structured, as said in readwriteweb article above, by tagging, annotating, etc as much as we can. We can also spread the word. Most importantly, we developers can write smart tools that can capture and expose the data in structured-way. Every bit helps and that's what I said in yesterday's discussion, the idea is to make things better. Sooner or later, we would have a perfect web, well there is nothing perfect but you got what I mean :-)
BTW! If you want to feel how tools/user-experience would get better with Semantic Web, Check out of Adaptive Blue extensions (BlueOrganizer and SmartLinks) to browser (s). These tools recognize data/object/information in a web-page and provide you very contextualized choices (action items). They are doing things using existing, mostly unstructured web, imagine - how things would be structured web i.e. semantic-web?
You can explore it but let me give a simple example. Suppose you are reading movie review of Transformers on IMDB. Adaptive Blue tool would deduct about director, movie-name, casts, etc and provide you relevant choices/options like:-
There are so many contextualized choices, I don't want to list all of them. However, you can see the screenshot and check out the extensions.
I am wondering, is it something that can cause privacy concern? If they are collecting page-info on their server?
Update (Feb 11, 2008): Reuters has announced OpenCalais service API, which analyzes the data (text, html, xml), processes it to a semantic content by returning RDF/XML and also stores the processed data in it's server for future searches, it can be disabled via API params. You can check out this sample app.
Technorati tags: semantic web, microformats, adaptive blue, blueorganizer, smartlinks
I am in DevCamp, currently sitting in Mozilla Prism session. I attended some interesting sessions:
During my session (on AIR, AJAX centric), I ran out of time and couldn't complete it. I should have scheduled one hour instead of thirty minutes. I got pissed off and didn't talk about Media RSS. BarCamp/DevCamp should have longer sessions, otherwise it sucks.
Some people seemed to be interested in AIR, asked about it's availability on different platforms (Linux, Mobile etc). I have uploaded my presentation-slides on slideshare.net, you can download the PDF or see the presentation below:-
Note: Most of the images used in this presentation are from Adobe slides/articles and screenshots of various AIR apps. Please let me know, if I can not keep those images, however, I feel it's fair use.
Technorati tags: devcamp, bangalore, devcamp08, air
I am going to be at DevCamp and would be talking, if my proposed sessions get a slot, about Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Media RSS.
This event is going to be interesting, proposed-sessions sound very interesting. I am going to attend sessions related to semantic-web, microformats and Ruby-On-Rails (ROR).
BTW! This is an unique opportunity to meet Martin Fowler, he is also going to talk about something(not yet decided).
Technorati tags: devcamp, bangalore, thoughtworks, air, mrss, martin fowler
XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is one of the microformats, I have been using for sometime. I have used (where)whenever I can.
XFN goes more interesting and would become more popular with Google's Social Graph API .
Google Social Graph API allows you to find all such social connections using XFN and FOAF. Thousands of pages/feeds already have XFN and FOAF data.
There are XFN Graphing tools/libraries but Google provides the similar thing in the form of webservice (API), which takes different parameters and returns JSON as output.
This is going to push XFN microformat usage and I am already seeing the effect, some of my friends/acquaintances have edited links on their blogs/pages to add XFN data, so am I doing now :-)
Technorati tags: xfn, google, social, graph, api
microformat
Some random thoughts/questions:-
Is MXML presentational markup? I think, it is.
How does the idea of semantic web/html and microformats fit into Flex based RIAs?
How can we design applications that can be progressively enhanced or gracefully degraded?
MXML seems to be very powerful, hence very useful. If best-practices are not followed, it's very easy to end up with bad-design/app? That's true for AJAX (= DTHML now) also.
What should/could be the design of future flex framework (s) so that lightweight runtimes (FlashLite etc) can run flex-applications without requiring more powerful hardware and latest capabilities on devices?
MXML can be broken down into subsets:-
Right now it's very easy to mix all these. Experienced developers have found different ways to keep things separated but no standard as such.
Shouldn't there be a standard way of drawing a line of separation between these as a part of development workflow/requirement? I believe, same is true in AJAX world but things (best-practices, workflow, LSM, semantic, microformats etc) are well established there?
Just wondering, if all these pieces can be separated within flex-framework, applications can be run on lightweight client by replacing cpu/memory intensive bits (which are required to parse/process/render one of the parts mentioned above) with compatible-lighter version of bits?
Does this post makes sense? ;-)
Never mind the subject, I wanted to ask one question and came up with many unanswered. I have answers for some but I would be posting after some more thinking. BTW! It's good to work with different technologies/standards, it makes me think like this.
Kevin Hoyt's latest post made me think some of these. Kevin has posted some more nice posts, one should read.
Technorati tags: mxml, markup, semantic, flex, microformats
