AS3 and E4X
Posted on | February 6, 2009 | No Comments | by Kristen
Hello team…
I’ve been going through various sites to get a lead on how to get keywords from our parsed xml data…a lot of sources point me to Ecmascript for XML (EX4)…apparently AS3 is really compatible with EX4 and makes the whole parsing process easier to accomplish versus AS2….to help us developers better understand the process, I’ve found a great step-by-step tutorial here: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm
I believe this will help us get closer to filtering/finding specific words in our feeds…
Yahoo BOSS, Twitter, and Google Engines…
Posted on | February 3, 2009 | No Comments | by Kristen
News article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10143937-2.html
Turns out that Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/) can team with Google App (http://code.google.com/appengine/) and Twitter to make some seriously fresh news…We should snag/take a look at the Yahoo BOSS as “BOSS gives you access to Yahoo’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure” (Yahoo). This can really help us achieve the back-end we need to really power our awesome, upcoming design…More to come!
Flowchart
Posted on | February 2, 2009 | No Comments | by Randy
Flowchart for the interactive and backend processes for the project:
Moodboards
Posted on | February 2, 2009 | No Comments | by Randy
Behold: the visual awesomeness each designer created to show different visual directions for the project.
Matt Austin:
Joanna Belding:
Randy Church:
Brooks Eastman
Interaction Examples, Ya Dig?
Posted on | January 13, 2009 | No Comments | by Matt Austin
Hey Hey Hey,
So here’s some motion/rollover examples that I’ve stumbled across on my journies across the internet.
http://www.porsche.com/all/usa/911/
http://timeless.adiamondisforever.com/
http://halo3.com/believe/shell.html
To do list: Week 5
Posted on | January 13, 2009 | No Comments | by Isabel
Matt – 2 comps
Joanna – 2 comps
Randy – 2 comps
Kristen – research / work ‘connections’
Brooks -2comps
Niraj/Scott – Rss parsing (PHP, JS, AS). print out to screen
Isabel – (more on) design documents > research
General Goals for the Upcoming Week
- finalize ‘connections’ between articles and feeds
- project plan
- time line of project
- begin research
- finalize ui elements
- book report. 2 chapters per member.
Week 4 Progress
Posted on | January 10, 2009 | No Comments | by admin
Team IV is a 2009 New Media Team Project Group focusing on Web Feeds, and we are currently in the middle of one of two academic quarters being spent on this project.
Our goal is to design and develop an application which is a “one stop shop” for all of your popular news and gossip. At this point, we are looking at doing a somewhat abstract visualization of various mainstream RSS feeds, and creating an application which is both practical and artistic in itself. We would like to create “connections” between these feeds, something we believe has not yet been done for an RSS based website, such as Digg or NewsMap.
These “connections” we are looking to create have yet to be decided on. Our ideas range from practical and obvious, such as finding related stories based on what they are about, or what words are in the title – to obscure connections like how many times the letter ‘a’ appears in an article.
Stay tuned for more from the technical and development points of view, and the upcoming process work!
Hello World
Posted on | January 7, 2009 | No Comments | by Matt Austin
Bonjour, my friends,
As a member of this fine team, I would like to provide all you surfers of the interwebz with some information – mainly the type of which that allows you to get ahold of me.
You can check out my shtuff here, or email me at maustindesign@gmail.com
Enjoy, and keep it real.
Matt
Welcome to IV
Posted on | January 7, 2009 | Comments Off | by admin
This is the blog site for Team IV, New Media Team Project – Web Feed.
Look for posts as we make progress and complete milestones throughout this quarter and next.
Matt Austin – Designer
Joanna Belding – Designer
Randy Church – Designer
Kristen Curtze – Developer
Brooks Eastman – Designer
Scott Lanning – Developer
Niraj Shah – Developer
Isabel Yerkes – Developer