Drumbeat/MoJo/hackfest/berlin/projects/Plesper

PLESPER

Project Lead(s): Laurian Gridinoc

Big Goal for MoJo Hackfest

Simplify the idea, prototype the microview (read more on)

Key steps toward goal:

• remove half-backed bits
• switch to Embed.ly (as they took over oohembed)
• create the micro view
• link the microview into the world (granular URLs, tweetable)
• export/open paragraphs as tiles

Pending needs: I'll need a sanity check on what I'm doing. (Saleem helped me on this)

Links for more info:

• prototype description
• original MoJo proposal
• (old) demo: video
• source code: GitHub

Project Status

Working features:

• adding "tiles" via google search or URL input
• ohembed autodiscovery, fallback to readability-like scraping
• tile notes (flip them)
• microview zoom
• paragraph export to tile
• positioning in the relationship view
• iPad doubletap zoom + tap navigation
• freeze scrolled tile (scroll position from micro view to macro view)

Collaborators

I did a sanity check on the concept and interaction with Saleem Khan.

Next Steps

• clean-up code, abstract it a bit such that I can provide an intersection of different views (tile, map, treemap, relations) in a simpler way
• drag&drop tiles to reorder
• html5 drag&drop tiles between tabs and browser windows
• fix embed.ly integration
• link-up the websocket bit, to enable collaboration
• enable persistence
• fix iPad performance issues (use CSS3 3D translations = hardware accel.)
• see what bits could be later provided thorught the MetaMeta Project