http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog Newsiversse :: Web Based Feed Tue, 19 May 2009 02:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We had our final presentation last Wednesday during our final session for our New Media Team Project class. All in all I think it went pretty well. We were one of the last groups that got a chance to present and because of that I felt like we were a ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/203 [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="445" caption="ImagineRIT was a great success! (click for video)"][/caption] Team IV had a blast presenting Newsiversse at this year's ImagineRIT! Our "spacey" room was filled with inquisitive people who were intensely interested in the project. Check out the video here: Newsiversse @ ImagineRIT 2009. http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/198 Hello there... Sorry for the delay, but Team IV has been busy tweaking and coding away at our lovely senior project yu know and love.  Plus, having ImagineRIT in our minds kept us driven to keep working and put off a bit of sleep for a while.  No harm there! Anyways, we ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/196 Web feed - "The kinds of content delivered by a web feed are typically HTML (webpage content) or links to webpages and other kinds of digital media. Often when websites provide web feeds to notify users of content updates, they only include summaries in the web feed rather than the full content ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/180 To Get it workin’: - Key word search - Implement Design - ‘filter’ feeds - Tweet break-apart-visual-thingy (?) (Randy) - 3D test for nodes (Randy) - Loader Animations: - Intro Loader (Matt) - Ring transition (All) - Tweet rollovers – how they populate in (Joanna) - Article excerpt transition in (Brooks) - Button rollover animations (Randy) Extra: - Customization of feeds/addition of feeds http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/178 First Round: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp1-1"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp1-2"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp2-1"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp2-2"][/caption] Round 2: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Comp3-1"][/caption] Round 3: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp4-1"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp4-2"][/caption] Round 4: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp5-1"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="445" caption="Comp5-2"][/caption] http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/161 After dealing a lot with trying to get flash to parse the RSS feeds it has become apparent that PHP can do a lot of the work with a lot less strain on the server and a lot quicker and easier. I have been working on a simple parser that ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/159 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v1.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v3.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v3.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v3.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp v4.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="445" caption="comp ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/140 1) Let's Start at the Beginning... Our initial concept was some form of growth, either organic in nature, or more scientific. I went with the latter and tried to visualize nerves and synapses connecting feeds together. Comp v1.0 2) Abstracting a bit After seeing some killer growth stuff by Grant Skinner we explored some ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/97 Here's a look back at how my designs have progressed. Enjoy. Version 1 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v1.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v1.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v1.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v1.0"][/caption] Version 2 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v2.0"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="Comp v2.0"][/caption] Version 3 [caption id="" ... http://cias.rit.edu/~iv/blog/archives/88