Web New Media notes and ramblings

Here's an app I thought up the Firday. I managed to "finish" it up after dinner Friday and and with a few spare hours Saturday. I put finished in quotes, because it's not really finished. There's a still a lot to do. I did manage to mock up the basic ideas and get them all working.

http://newmedia.academyart.edu/~mhudson/doodle/

So what's the idea anyway? Anyone can make a user account, login and create a small drawing, and then list all of the drawings that have been created. My idea was to create a sort of Twitter for the visual set. Instead of typing a short message of the moment. You can draw a small picture of the moment, and post it for everyone to view.

The basic functionality works now, but to make this really useful will require more features. At this point you are viewing all of the drawings in the database. The real idea is to show only drawings from people that you feel like seeing.

Testing the Kimili Flash plugin for WordPress. It seems to be working pretty well so far.

Interesting to note that the plugin is supposed to work with Flash anywhere it appears. So you can use KimiliFlash to put Flash into your header or other areas of your site.

Another interesting item is that the Kimili plugin uses SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script which is XHTML valid. The default Flash HTML code written by Flash and Dreamweaver will not validate.

There is an article about this on A List Apart.