Rob’s geeky discoveries Blog

There have been no posts from me for a while as I’ve been building the AS3 carousel section (eBay items) and a series of DoubleClick Ads utilising Twitter feeds in banners and Ebay listings in banners too.  The ads are in AS2 as the DoubleCick TABS system can’t yet take AS3 FYI (coming soon, Cheers Haden for the inside info!). This is all for The Sun Help for Heroes campaign where Ebayers can apply to become sellers and then donate their profits of the items they sell directly to the campaign. We’ve got loads of Celebrities to donate items too and there is a branded hub site pulling all this activity together live within eBay at:

•  http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=the_sun_newspaper

In my rummagings on Cross Domain I discovered this good hack for accessing the pixels from Video on distributed CDN’s:

• http://jessewarden.com/2009/03/handling-crossdomainxml-and-302-redirects-using-netstream.html

More posts soon hopefully although my day to day link posting is all being done via Twitter these days so follow along if you’re interested in these things. I am endeavouring to keep my microblogging professional rather than letting you know I am ‘on the bus’/'popped to the shop’ etc so Flash goodies are promised 

This post originally just said “http://www.mogulus.com/gluelondon Xmas party broadcast, hooray! ”

Just thought I’d clarify, we broadcast the DJ sets from the Glue in-office Christmas party (Using Adobe Media Encoder to kick out multiple bit rate steams and maintain the stabiliity). Stuart kindly converted this to MPEG 4 so I might post, contact me if you want it (Audio quality isn’t great to be honest. Suffice to say on the night it was most excellent) Big up DJ Jens also for a storming back to back techno and old school garage set. Merry Christmas indeed!