TubeTheVote.com
I mentioned in a previous post that I have been working on a new project, and TubeTheVote is finally up and running! This is the new direction Blogform is taking in presenting content.
What is TubeTheVote you say? Well, TubeTheVote is a product that utilizes the new Blogform platform and is focused on the historic 2008 American Election. Tube The Vote is a unique compilation of the best content and debate on the internet about the 2008 election – blogs, videos, debates – presented in a single location. The publication is non-partisan and pays equal attention to – and pokes fun equally at – both John McCain and Barak Obama. Blogform has created partnerships with journalism departments at Michigan State University, Florida A&M and Texas University, where students are providing editorial content that is updated on a daily basis from now until the election in November. Try it out: www.tubethevote.com
Now to the bit more geeky stuff 
Basically what you see here is our new AS3 magazine engine. This engine has been built from scratch by my former colleague Paulo Fierro in Flex, using the Cairngorm framework. What you see on tubethevote.com doesn’t look much like a magazine, but the only actual difference between our standard page-flipping principle we have been using up until now, and the “cover-flow” -like presentation used in tubethevote.com is just one class. Thats it! The enigne loads a renderer class depending on the setting in the backend.
Now the renderer displaying the pages of a magazine in the cover-flow manner has been built from scratch by yours truly, using PaperVision3D. This is the first time I’ve actually used PaperVision3D in production, and it was GREAT fun. If you haven’t already noticed, the arrows aren’t the only way to navigate the site. You can actually navigate by clicking and dragging the background just like in the PicLens addon for Mozilla Firefox. Coding this was quite a hassle as my math skills have been deteriorating since high school, hehe, but i managed to pull it through in the end.
Each page in the magazine has a few cool features, which I either built or helped build. Features like streaming youtube videos, displaying twitter feeds from search, quiz, and blog. Below is a selection of clickable screenshots of pages in tubethevote.
Top Flop: Shows a set of videos for each day, one for Obama and one for McCain. The videos are either a “top” as in a favorable video about the candidate, or a “flop”.
Twitter: Searches though twitter feeds, with a search term specified for that day.
Well, i think that is it for now. As you might gather, I am very proud of this product, I have a lot of hours logged on the renderer, pages and updating and upgrading our new fabulous MagWerk Engine. Our clients will hopefully be using this great way of navigating through content in the future.
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