Martin Källström

Twingly Summer of Code - Episode #1

twinglysummerofcode2008-06-181:58640x480 original source ↗

Twingly Summer of Code - Episode #1: Prototyping the interface

In this recording — 5 extracted moments
click any row to play that moment
factThe Twingly Summer of Code project involved creating a visual interactive demo for exploring the global blogosphere.0:39factThe Twingly Summer of Code interface displayed the entire blogosphere with support for multiple language communities including French, Portuguese, and English.0:39factThe Twingly Summer of Code interface organized blogs into distinct categories including sports, fashion, family, technology, and personal, which users could explore.0:39factThe Twingly Summer of Code interface allowed users to interact directly with individual blogs within specific category views such as the technology blogosphere.1:04factThe Twingly Summer of Code interface provided a unified way to zoom into and explore the global blogosphere across any language, category, and individual blog.1:29
Transcript

[00:00:39] Speaker A: Okay, so welcome to the visual interactive demo of the Twingly Summer of Code project. And we have here a view of the entire blogosphere. So we have like French, Portuguese, English, some other and whatever. We can actually zoom into, for example, English. Let's zoom. And we see the English part of the blogosphere. We have different categories: sports, fashion, family. We can choose to zoom in. In this case, to technology. So

[00:01:04] Speaker A: we zoom, zoom, zoom, and here we see the entire technology blogosphere, and we can interact with individual blogs. We can zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, and we choose to zoom into, let's say, personal instead. Zooming, zooming. Here's the personal blogosphere. So this is English personal blogs, and we can zoom in and interact with them and find relevant and interesting blogs. Then we zoom out, zoom

[00:01:29] Speaker A: out, all in one interactive interface. We zoom out and we zoom out to the entire global blogosphere. So we can zoom into any language, any category, and any blog in the world.