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Today we'd like to share with you a demo of the web app we've been working on for the past few weeks. We call it Cork.
Cork is a digital cork board that you can drop, paste, or type, URLs and text into. After adding an item you can organize it by dragging it around the screen.
Our goal is to provide a better way to visualize, organize, and share, content-rich items on the web. We think that current bookmarking system don't do justice to the full spectrum of media online, and we'd like to change that.
Please let us know what you think! What do you like? What don't you like?
Be harsh if you want to, we can take it. We know that with continued feedback we can make something people love to use.
Thanks for your time!
http://cork.io
I thought I'd share my winning entry to the Google I/O last call competition with ya'll.
Took me about 9 hours, which seems like a lot looking at it now (my only excuse is that it took place after 12am). I truly did not expect to be one of the winners. My guess is that the YouTube API category had fewer entries than others.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
This was the challenge:
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a video mash-up by chaining player invocations that work for both Flash and HTML5 videos ? Well, with the JavaScript API to the <iframe> embed we think you can.
Your task is to build a mash-up player using the <iframe> JavaScript API. You will be given a list of video IDs, and from-to timestamps. For example the following sequence (<xxasdadad, 65s, 95s>, <xxffwwe22, 20s, 35s>), which will trigger the mash-up player to play video with ID xxasdadad for 30 seconds, starting at second 65 and ending at second 95, then proceed to play video with ID xxffwwe22, starting at second 20 and ending at second 35.
Given the sequence, implement a player which will play the sections of the listed videos, starting at the ‘from’ timestamp, and ending at the ‘to’ timestamp for each video.
Try to make the transitions between videos as smooth as possible, and make it easy for users to embed your mash-up player in their own web applications.
I encourage everyone to enter this contest if they hold it again next year. It was a blast!
With web apps it becomes difficult to pull a user's cross-app data together with such varied APIs and data formats. But do we even need our data in one place or will we just open the program that has our data "in it"?
What do you think?