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Toyota launches user-submitted multimedia interface “Beyond Cars”
Less than a year after Toyota wowed the interactive community with their “Why Not? Innovation Experience” site, they have launched “Beyond Cars,” a user-submitted interactive portal allowing their audience to discuss a “better tomorrow.” Their site provides a truly engaging experience as users move around a visually stimulating interface to read, watch, and view other people’s thoughts about our future.
What I am learning this semester … and hopefully teaching you!
With summer officially gone and my first week of class well under way, I have to admit that I am really excited about what lies ahead. I am taking a combination of theory and practical skills courses, so please let me know if one in particular interests you. I found that I blogged several times last Spring on particular readings or projects from class, so I am happy to do the same this semester if people find it helpful. Also, please let me know if you prefer learning about particularly good readings, or looking through coding examples and tutorials.
Tampa Bay Mug Shots utilizes Django for innovative database
St. Petersburg Times launched a brilliant interactive on Monday, utilizing booking information to create a database of the most recent arrests in their area. According to Shelby Sapusek, a media-focused twitterer, this package received 100,000 hits in the first 3 hours. Now that’s what I call a return on investment! Even better, they bypassed Flash and produced this package with Django, an open-source software known for it’s rich database capabilities under a tight deadline.
Behind the scenes of The Columbus Dispatch’s “Death Perceptions”
The Columbus Dispatch producers Victor Black and Jeremy Lynch write a guest post detailing their latest project, Death Perceptions. In it, they describe how they parsed the data and integrated it into Flash with MySQL. “The project’s theme and design didn’t call for a lot of color, so we felt animation during the display of the query-results helped make otherwise static information more dynamic.”
User-submitted multimedia database unifies those affected by cancer
One of the great advantages to judging multimedia competitions is the periodic influx of amazing multimedia projects to my inbox. While I was recently looking through the entries for the quarterly SNDies competition, one project in particular caught my eye. To be accurate, it was actually a part of a larger project that was linked [...]
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