links for 2008-05-30
May 30, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
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Youth written election news and information site
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Can Facebook make money?
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What has been your experience in using this? I’ll have to try it out at home tomorrow.
links for 2008-04-10
April 10, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
A Contributr Update
April 8, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
The Contributr team has been taking a little break recently, and that’s not a good thing. We’re trying frantically to make up time but other commitments got in the way.
Colby Palmer has been working on a complete redesign of the web application and the AIR desktop application and is doing a great job. He’s a great designer and a great guy and we’re glad to have him on our side! The difficult part now is pulling together all of the little bits and pieces before NAB next week.
I’ll be there presenting Contributr to the industry and friends and I’m really hoping we have the new design implemented enough to use it for our demos. It is a HUGE improvement over our first user interface and I’m very proud of it.
Thursday I’ll meet with the Missouri Innovation Center again to look at some of the business possibilities behind Contributr and its market viability as an early-stage startup. I hope that I’m able to take Contributr with me into my next job and continue working and enhancing it for the news media, and the public.
It would be a disservice not to give Contributr a shot and continue development.
So wish us luck as we try to get version 1.1 of Contributr out the door and ready for more widespread testing.
I’ll Be Featured on Adobe.com in March
February 15, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
I received some good news earlier this week, Team Contributr, myself included will be featured on the Adobe.com DevNet site in the month of March for our participation in the Reynolds Journalism Institute/Adobe Inc. AIR Journalism contest.
For those who didn’t know, I alongside a team of 3 other developers created a modular application that simplifies the way the public interacts and shares information and content with news organizations.
We’ve made great strides already! We were named a finalist last September and were given $5,000 in development seed money to make our application come to life. We made some great purchases and put in countless hours, and we did it!
We really created quite a remarkable application, it runs on the Desktop using Adobe AIR technology, on the web, on your iPhone, and syndicates across the world as well.
Long story short, Adobe was a sponsor of the contest and now I’ve been chosen to write an article for their Dev Net site which will be published March 15. It’s early yet but I hope to get the article written in the next week or so.
My team is very excited and we’re proud that the Reynolds Journalism Institute and Adobe have been so supportive of our startup.
The Contributr Project
January 23, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Contributr is a user generated content solution for information and media companies. It is a collection of modules developed with seed development money by the Reynolds Journalism Institute and Adobe Inc. Contributr was chosen as one of the 3 finalists in the RJI/Adobe competition and is quite successful in its own right.
The ContributrSolutions platform is a tool to manage and syndicate user generated content. It’s built on a highly flexible and durable server and fits into existing workflows. Built in Ruby on Rails, and running on a completely open-source server stack
For the user, they can submit (contribute) information from the web, from their mobile phone, and from their desktop using Adobe AIR technology, on the iPhone, on the web, integrated into your site, and it also syndicates content wherever your media company is comfortable with sending it.
More information can be found on the main Contributr sites linked below:
Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-13
December 13, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
- Having a baked potato out for dinner. #
- Working on a Contributr presentation for tomorrow. #
- At the Journalism school, preparing to give my presentation on Contributr, wish me luck! #
- Rocked my presentation of Contributr… Show the problem they have with their website -> Show my solution to all their problems= FTW! #
- Adobe Bio is awesome, I’ll def. be using it once my AdobeConnect license expires #
- My AIR development team is working on porting out app to Beta3 of Flex and AIR today, wish us luck! #
- @norawheels go get ‘em! Congrats on Law School, that’s so exciting! #
- Trying out Tweetr, I still don’t have a favorite Twitter desktop app yet, any suggestions? #
- @annier Mac #
- Good luck @danieljohnsonjr #
- @annier I’ve got Twitterific installed, I guess I need to get the settings configured better, I know it’s extremely popular. #
- Quick Question: what is a ’salient characteristic’? #
- @ijustine LOLZ to you too #
- @chrisbrogan that sounds like a lot of fun, I’ll call in next time! #
- @dmotion as a young person I have little to no motivation to read an actual newspaper, even though I work in the news business. #
- @jowyang do you use GrandCentral yet? #
- sigh… finally got tested and approved to do university funded research, I shoulda done that a lot earlier #
Testing BEE - AIR Blog Poster
December 11, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Here’s another attempt at finding a suitable desktop based way to post to my blog. this one I’ve tried before, but I can’t remember why I never used it. Maybe after this first post with it i’ll remember and have to decide whether or not to keep it.
This post was made using Bee, a WordPress blog posting application built with Adobe AIR. We’ll see how it works. The big feature of this app is that it pulls from Flickr’s API to find and post images from your photostream, or all of Flickr.
Qumana - An Attempt
December 11, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
This morning I’m trying out offline blog editors, I’ve decided that if I’m going to post more often, I need to integrate the blogging experience deeper into my daily workflow. And I think that may become easier if I always have a new-post window open not in the browser, but on my desktop. (I may even assign a Mac OSX Leopard ‘Space’ to it.)
The first offline editor that I tried was AirPress, a hybrid blog editor using Adobe AIR technology, I really wanted it to work, really badly because I’m a big fan of Adobe AIR, it’s a great platform in my book. But it just didn’t do everything that it claimed to do (at least in my first install attempt). It refused to pick up my iSight for web cam recording, it wouldn’t insert small jpg’s into the editor, and it never actually uploaded anything to my blog. I’ve emailed the AirPress people and I hope it’s just something I’m doing and not the application itself, if I can get it working, I’ll use it.
In the meantime I’m trying out Qumana which, despite not being as pretty as AirPress, appears to be working.
More to come!
Powered by Qumana
yourminis - Widgets for the rest of us?
October 27, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
yourminis :: web widgets, blog widgets, desktop widgets, widgetize your content!
Well folks, here it is, the widespread simplification of widgetizing your content. While yourminis isn’t quite a plug-and-play, but it is a very strong AS3 API library for content creators to use. They already have big name partners like VH1, MTV, and others who hope to hit up the in-crowd and get them using widgets.
They also recently updated their codebase to include Adobe AIR support, so all your web widgets can be deployed, syndicated, and repurposed anywhere on the web or on the desktop.
This just further solidifies my belief that the widget economy is just about to explode, man I sure hope Contributr can get launched into beta before it happens!
The Adobe AIR Project
September 11, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Well, I’m in the midst of a private contest through the Missouri School of Journalism and the newly formed Reynolds Institute at MU. This is a collaborative effort between the school and Adobe.Basically, there are several teams of students working to develop a desktop and online/offline application that can promote and benefit community based journalism. This includes not just the public-side but also the internal efficiency of local journalismI’ve got an all-star team of help both officially and unofficially including Journalism professionals, other journalism students, and computer science students.While I’m not yet prepared to divulge the content and idea behind my project, I will say that it has great reach and potential in both small and large market news.The initial pitches by the contest participants will happen in about a week, and once that time comes I will blog and post more information about my initiative and why I think that it has the potential to be a wonderful thing for news organizations across the nation and world.
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