Development begins...
Yes, I have a lot on my plate right now. So I thought I'd make it a little more crowded by starting development on some pet projects of mine.
First up is VisualStreet.net. I'm going to use Drupal, along with my work-in-progress place module, to create a visual record of, well, stuff along your street. Organized nicely by city, street, neighbourhood, etc., you'll be able to walk along the "street" and see what's there. And leave comments, of course. I'm looking at GeoURL to include location information, and probably Upcoming.org for event-type stuff.
The site is up and already running Drupal, but I'm using it to develop the place module, so there's not much in the way of functionality yet. Image uploads are (predictably) going to be the biggest hurdle.
Next is Who Has My Birthday. Also Drupal-powered, you'll be able to look up other people who have your birthday, keep track of your friends' birthdays, and do some interesting stuff with auto-generated FOAF profiles.
Not currently up and running except for a placeholder page -- need to do some work on talking to other people that are looking at integrating the buddylist and profile modules to create the FOAF module.
Neither of these are complete descriptions of what these sites are going to be. But hey, it's past my bedtime, and it's a start.
Comments
Nope
still no joy loading VisualStreet.Net
nope
you get a refused connection in fact...
so the visual street thing (from what I gather) is a sort of QT VR experience except that is more interactive? you could document, say, my house so that people could see what the layout is (for real estate agents) or create maps that actually show you the buildings you will pass as you are driving to a location.
cool.
E/.
you up past your bedtime?? in.con.ceivable!
I'll get you to try again
I can "see" it from my other PC, but since I'm using the SME box as my gateway right now, it parses http requests and re-directs them if it's a local, virtual domain. Good for quick access, not so good for testing if the outside world can see it...
Not really QTVR (although it would be interesting to do some photo stitching). I envision it as places with images attached to them. There would be multiple ways of viewing/filtering (those inherent to Drupal like taxonomies, for instance), including "walking" down a street, where you have the images next to each other.
I'll have to check up on some DNS stuff and then perhaps enlist your assistance over IM to see if you can see it...