We finally uploaded the Beta version of Meipi! 🙂 As announced in Meipi Blog (in Spanish), we are still working on many different issues and finishing a special Meipi for Basurama.
So, instead of bothering everyone with technical nonsense, we’ll just encourage you to take a look at the improved version. Hopefully this video created by our team will properly explain whatever question you may have!
El pasado jueves los Lamb Brothers acudimos a la Google Open Pizza Night, en donde entre otras cosas (buena gente, pizza, bebidas…) se presentaba la nueva API de Youtube.
Se prometÃan premios para las mejores aplicaciones desarrolladas con la nueva API, más allá de los ejemplos mostrados. Pues bien, nuestro pequeño prototipo logró ser la mejor! Bueno, básicamente porque nadie más presentó nada, jeje. (en cualquier caso, nuestra Power Ball que nos llevamos con la tonterÃa8-)
Puede que sigamos trabajando sobre la simple idea (tenemos a Rau1 casi convencido para hacer una primera colaboración;), la cual es la siguiente: Poder ir valorando un vÃdeo a medida que lo ves, de tal manera que al final una gráfica muestra qué partes son más valoradas.
Lo que desarrollamos deprisa y corriendo (usando la Google Chart API para el grafiquillo) era muy básico, pero creemos que puede tener gracia el mezclar las valoraciones dinámicas de muchos usuarios para crear la media.
Seguiremos informando!
Apart from spending time in the projects we usually talk about in the Lamboratory, Jorge and me also have our “proper” jobs, of course. 🙂 And being one of the aims of this site to gather together our kind-of-portfolio, this wouldn’t be complete without mentioning those.
After almost three years in a Telefónica I+D project (someday more about it) I switched to a Researcher position at iSOCO Lab, so I thought it would be the right time to write about real-life-job stuff.
It is a good opportunity to roughly explain what will I be working at, so I’ll be able to point to this post whenever needed in the future. 😎
Topics at my new job will be around Semantic Web, and first project I will be involved, SOA4All, is a quite ambitious European collaboration where SOA, Web and Web2.0, Semantic Web and Context Management issues will be addressed.
It looks really interesting, and a step forward into the right direction. Let’s see how it goes! 🙂
The advantage of “0110 0110 0110” is that being palindromic it can be read from both sides of the street (and even from above;-)
El blog programa con Google 
, el blog oficial de Google para los desarrolladores en español, habló hace poco de nuestro Gadget para la Comunicación entre usuarios.
En la entrada hablan del gadget que permite enviar y recibir mensajes entre los gadgets de distintos usuarios y que se puede utilizar para crear diversos juegos y aplicaciones.
Actualmente, estamos modificando la API que ofrecemos para que no sea necesario un gadget extra. Como sugerÃa Rau1, los usuarios no tienen por qué tener un gadget que en apariencia no hace nada :p. Realmente ese gadget extra permitÃa evitar algunas peticiones desde los gadgets que utilizan la comunicación, además de listar los juegos disponibles, pero para el usuario es más sencillo no tener que incluirlo.
También estamos adaptando un juego que diseñó Guille hace tiempo. El juego ya funciona pero faltan todavÃa ciertos retoques, lo publicaremos cuando esté listo.
We’ve been saying that Meipi (the collaborative local and thematic maps project we are involved in) is “at its alpha stage” for a while now. I bet most people have already guessed that there would be a beta stage after this one. And that is in fact our idea. 🙂
We’re not doing it as fast as we would have liked, as we have to coordinate this with our jobs and the rest of projects we are involved in. (By “we” I mean Jorge and myself, plus the rest of meipi guys.)
So what are we changing? Mainly, we are trying to get a better look&feel and usability, as we haven’t paid so much attention to it yet. We are working with other people at this stage, as we (I now mean Jorge and myself;-) are focused on the back-end of it, and its proper functionality.
Of course we will also deal with some pending functionality issues, so it’s time for you to tell us (again) what are we really missing or doing wrong!
Now, the good thing is that even though the presentation of the common pages is rather terrible (see image below), and that creating a meipi is not easy at all, the number of users have been raising (around 400 by now), and so the number of created meipis (around 60).
So let’s hope that someday we will release the brand new interface… and we’ll see how it goes! We’ll keep you updated with the news in this process.
Today we have released Multi User Communication gadget and the first game that takes advantage of its functionality: a Tic Tac Toe game.
Multi User Communication gadget can be used to send and receive messages between the igoogle pages of different users. Developers can create with this gadget any application or game they can imagine that needs users interaction.
If you want to add these gadgets to your igoogle page use the following links:
Multi User Communication page – This is a tab for igoogle page that already contains the two gadgets needed to play. Add it to your Google Personalized Homepage and start playing.
or
Multi User Communication gadget – This is the gadget that manages communications between users. You need to have this gadget added to the same tab where you have the games to play. You only need to add it once, don’t add it if you added the full tab.
Tic Tac Toe gadget – This is the gadget where you can play with a user. You can add as many Tic Tac Toe gadgets as you want, to play with different users.
If you are interested in creating a new game or application you can use the available API. The documentation is available in English and in Spanish:
English – http://www.lamboratory.com/multiUserCommunication.php?lang=en
Spanish – http://www.lamboratory.com/multiUserCommunication.php?lang=es
Here is an screenshot of a Tic Tac Toe game:
Alvy, de microsiervos.com, escribió un post sobre Google Chart API, una API que permite generar gráficos indicando los datos que tienen que mostrar, permitiendo insertarlos en la página que quieras.
El ejemplo de uso de la API era el siguiente, comentando que no habÃa conseguido girarlo todavÃa:
Con un pequeño truco se puede conseguir girar el Pac-Man. Solo hay que dividir la parte blanca en dos. Se lo he mandado y han actualizado el post (¡gracias!):
Sólo para confirmar la aclaración del post, sà que tengo más de 4 años :-p
OK, it is in fact a terrible name. Anyway, our blog is finally here!
Why does the Lamboratory need a blog? Well, we thought it was the best way to keep the site actualized with the news we may have, as long as we are getting lazier to modify it.
We don’t promise to post regularly, but just when we need to show some of the things we are working at. Don’t anybody expect the kind of dynamic blog! 😉
So what are we working at right now?
Cheers everyone. See you around!
