MT_Martin_Kleppe

FrameDrops - My Flashy Geotagged Video Moblog

Description

FrameDrops is an interactive web interface to video blogs where you can follow a personal way through time and space. Two steps further than oldstyle weblogs and a mixture of upcomming moblogs, richmedia-websites and location based services.

In Mid - November 2004, during an exchange visit at Bauhaus - associated institutions in Tokyo and Nagoya impressions were collected as media-messages by using contemporary mobile technology. Furthermore, the whole path through both and between those japanese metropolises was logged with a GPS-receiver so that all visual and textual information are bound to the location where they are created. The recorded data than can be watched through a graphical interface as soon as it is uploaded to the web.

Technical
The final user interface is done in Macromedia Flash MX 2004. With the ability to integrate video content, a new Component Architecture and advanced Webservice features it is now a powerfull frontend to controll media based webcontent. The server backend is running a modified version of the open-code project Antville - an easy to maintain and use weblog hosting system. The integrated Blogger and MetaWeblog API allows you to access elementary functionalities like story-management and image upload via XML-RPC. Extending these standards with a own FrameDropsAPI make it possible to completely handle all entries, files, topics and search requests out of Flash.

Current status

Finished on March 3, 2005

Links

• Personal Flash and Video related Blog: http://antville.medien.uni-weimar.de/ape
• Personal All Topics Related Blog (German!): http://mizubitchy.antville.org
• Antville: http://www.antville.org
• BloggerAPI: http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/1_docs/
• Flash Video: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/video.html

People

Jens Geelhaar, Supervisor
Tom Gross, Supervisor
Martin Kleppe, Master's candidate