Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Yuuzoo Mobile Media Widget

April 20th, 2008 jimcarter

A few weeks back Tim & I along with The Duarte Group headed up and launched a new widget for Yuuzoo Media. We created two versions of the widget, one that can be fully customized based on your media preferences and another for facebook.

 

They had the need to promote their Mobile Media, generate more sales and provide a fun and websavvy way to spread the word. We came up with this super-slick system for presentation and so-far it’s been a hit.

 

Right now you can create a custom widget in one step and then immediately share it on any social site you choose thanks to our working with the clearspring wrapper to help us handle the viral aspect of things.  For example to my right here, I chose a few categories of media I like, and grabbed the embed code right from the widget.  If you like the same things I do, you can post this same version right to your facebook, myspace, iGoogle, etc. acct, or you can get your own.

 

I built an entire backend system to not only track what’s most popular but to provide the media for the widget and a CMS to allow for the management.

 

Inline searching, admin

Ajax search with media administration

 

 

Inline searching, admin

Media Add/Updates with hot preview & server removal

 

 

We had a good time on this project and realize that widgets are the new in-thing. Based on the stats, people agree it’s only doing better. We’ve generated almost 500 custom widgets in the last couple weeks and theres been well over 2,600 installs for the Facebook app.  Go make one right now.   

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The Eco-Safe Foundation

March 26th, 2008 jimcarter

Eco-SafeSo here’s a little something that I’m really happy to announce, the public launch of Eco-Safe.com. My man Jason Schultz pulled me in on this project to help him develop out a really hot system we could pioneer off of the concept to bring environmental responsibility to the web. This project on like everything I work on with him has sofar been a hit, and it’s a real treat to see such a great success in just a few days of going live. Tim did an amazing job on the widget and the site was designed by Dave. Always a honor to work with these guys.

The site has gone through many revisions and we decided that the best way to rock this idea is wide-open and free. Anyone can jump on the site, grab the code to install the Merit Badge on their site (like you may have seen on the sidebar here), and you have sustainable options. You can Email the page to yourself, Send yourself a PDF of the page, or download the page as a PDF. Nice and simple, and doesn’t cost you the price of paper and ink. Give it a try below, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised how we managed to make it easier then printing to a PDF.

As of right now over 22K Merit Badges have been served up and in just a day and half over 200 people have chosen the Eco-Safe method of print 2.0 as I like to call it. Today a few big websites asked about installing the badge on their home. It’s taken off in the blogosphere as well, quite a few people have already put it on their blogs.. and thats just a couple.

I’ve also built a pretty extensive backend system for it that will soon offer a user to login, claim their domain, and show stats and reporting about which pages their users value enough to print 2.0 the pages. We figured this offers something you can’t even get with Google Analytics, and should be a big hit.

If you value things like this, I encourage you to install this badge on your site and embrace the fact that we need to all do what we can to protect the world we’re so badly abusing. I’m glad to say I was a part of this project, and looking forward to a lot more awesome ways of pushing the web to work for us in a new and unique way. Spread the word.

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