Trakr Update: 26th February 2008
I have been continuing to work on my interactive flash part of my project by experimenting with different interfaces and trying to figure out how to do what I want.
Ideally I would like to create something similar to the effect used by Apple's Time Machine (See video) with the ability to play YouTube content directly within the flash movie.
So far I have managed to get images from Flickr and YouTube thumbnails into Flash from a dynamically generated XML file produced by user data from Trakr. I have also done some work using Papervision3D, however it doesn't seem to work outside of Flash for some reason. My latest experiment is a simpler version with a horizontally scrolling movieclip which is controlled by the mouse position. See: http://www.trakr.co.uk/dev/swf/ for the demos.
I have concluded that I am going to use a star icon to represent adding a favorite because of the results of the poll on the New Media Forum, the use of it on other web sites such as Flickr and Digg and in Internet Explorer and Firefox 3. The majority of people who will use my web site will be using IE, so they should recognize the symbol. I may add a small plus icon in the bottom right hand corner to further reinforce the meaning.
Posted: 26th February 2008 02:17