Active.com Review
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/26/techcrunch-disrupt-hackathon-winner/
Video

Our brainstorming kicked off 9 am Saturday morning at the San Diego Airport. Two hours later in San Francisco we had scribbled out an iPhone app, app server and, a client where guest can watch the games.

At 1 pm we arrived at the TechCrunch Distupt Exhibition Center and got a table with the other 450 hackers. Most people came prepared for warfare; 30" monitors, chairs, sleeping bags, food, tablets, keyboards, and laptop stands. I was feeling under gunned and was just hoping I packed an extra pair of socks.

TechCrunch had engineers on site from Facebook, Twitter, CityGrid, and Mashery onsite to give API demos.

10:19 PM

12:53 AM ( Taco truck delivered a midnight snack )

02:51 AM

I had the iPhone Simulator running the mobile app which connected to my local ruby app in Sinatra. You can see our hacked code on github

3:07:56 AM Some people have retreated but still a large number working and a lot of energy.

6:20:13 AM

7:11:01 AM
So we decided Hackman was finished at 7 am when the sun came up.

11:12:49 AM
The demos started at 11

The presentation

After our presentation we were surprised how many people were tweeting about hacman.

And we won for "Best Presentation"

This post will show you how to use Open Source Media Framework to display an image for 2 seconds before displaying a video.

To display an image for 2 seconds before your video starts you'll need to use a TemporalProxyElement to apply a duration to your ImageElement.

 
var temporalProxyElement:TemporalProxyElement 
     = new TemporalProxyElement(2, 
				               new ImageElement(new ImageLoader(), 
					       new URLResource(THUMB_URL))
					      );
 

Full Code

 
package {
	import flash.display.Sprite;
 
	import org.osmf.composition.SerialElement;
	import org.osmf.containers.MediaContainer;
	import org.osmf.image.ImageElement;
	import org.osmf.image.ImageLoader;
	import org.osmf.layout.LayoutUtils;
	import org.osmf.media.DefaultMediaFactory;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaElement;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaFactory;
	import org.osmf.media.MediaPlayer;
	import org.osmf.media.URLResource;
	import org.osmf.proxies.TemporalProxyElement;
	import org.osmf.utils.URL;
 
	[SWF(width="400", height="300", frameRate="25")]
	public class ShrelpBurst extends Sprite
	{
		private var mediaFactory:MediaFactory;
		private var mediaElement:MediaElement;
		private var mediaPlayer:MediaPlayer;
		private var mediaContainer:MediaContainer;
 
		private static var VIDEO_URL:URL = new URL("http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/_uploads/news/portugal_killer_heat.flv");
		private static var THUMB_URL:URL = new URL("http://www.marinelayerproductions.com/_uploads/news/large/midnight_blue_04_00000.jpg");
 
		private var _pause:Sprite;
		private var _play:Sprite;
 
		public function ShrelpBurst()
		{
			mediaFactory = new DefaultMediaFactory();
			var serialElement:SerialElement = new SerialElement();
			var temporalProxyElement:TemporalProxyElement = new TemporalProxyElement(2, 
																	new ImageElement(new ImageLoader(), 
																	new URLResource(THUMB_URL))
																	);
			serialElement.addChild( temporalProxyElement );
			mediaElement 		 = mediaFactory.createMediaElement( new URLResource(VIDEO_URL));
			serialElement.addChild( mediaElement );
 
			mediaPlayer 		 = new MediaPlayer();
			mediaPlayer.autoPlay = true;
			mediaPlayer.media 	 = serialElement;
			mediaContainer 		 = new MediaContainer();
			mediaContainer.addMediaElement( serialElement );
 
			addChild( mediaContainer );
 
			LayoutUtils.setAbsoluteLayout(mediaElement.metadata, 400, 300, 0, 0);
		}
 
	}
}
 
 

Matt Moffett is one of those all terrain skateboarders that can take you out in a game of skate. I decided the only fair competitor to Matt is himself. So lets how Street Moffett does against Ramp Moffett.


Here is round one, vote in the comments below and pass the link on to a friend.

On the left Ramp Moffett

On the right Street Moffett

That was round one, leave your vote in the comments and pass the link on to a friend.

AdWeek published an article on Veoh's in-stream advertising strategy and behavioral targeting system.
I've been working on the flash integration with our in-house targeting server add Freewheel's first ActionScript 3.0 SDK for ad delivery.

Check out the article
Veoh to Bring Behavior to Video Ads

I often use SubVersion from the command line to manage my projects and I quickly became tired of typing in the full urls to repositories. I'm now storing these long paths in environmental variables. So for example I previously had to type
svn copy http://repo/svn/spoonermedia/projectname/trunk http://repo/svn/spoonermedia/projectname/branch/feature1 to make a branch. After setting up an environmental variable I only have to type

svn copy $R/trunk $R/branch/feature1

Okay if your sold on Environmental Variables this is how you do it.

1. Look in "/Users/your-user-name" for a .profile or .bash_login file. If you have both then open up .bash_login or if you have neither create a .profile file.
2. In that file you can use the export command to set all the variables you need. Each of these variables should be in uppercase.

   export W=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches/wolverine
   export T=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/tags
   export B=/Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches
   export SVNROOT=http://repo/svn/src/FlashPlayer/
   

You can also use alias and functions to do other task like open and close projects. Here are some of the other shortcuts I have.

## Open my current project
alias wolverine="cd /Users/jspooner/Documents/veoh/FlashPlayer/branches/wolverine && pwd && echo WELCOME TO WOLVERINE"
# mate
alias edithost="mate /private/etc/hosts"

alias stopmysql="sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist"
alias startmysql="sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist"
# 
# # functions
# # change directories. echo PWD and show a list
cdd () { cd ${1}; echo $PWD; ls; }