Views as a Web Widget has the potential to revolutionize the Internet, now that I think about it. Taking a hint from Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion in The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites, we are entering a time where creating an API for embedding content within another site is becoming a standard …
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YouTube Expands API: Good for Embedded Media Field
So YouTube just added some new features to their API: Upload videos and video responses to YouTube Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc) Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales Customize player UI and control …
Read more »Low Hanging Fruit
During our Drupal Multimedia panel on Monday, Nate Haug (quicksketch) mentioned that soon we will be discontinuing the Image module, and providing a migration for existing Image Nodes to ImageField (or its replacement). The same thing needs to happen to the Video module. That could happen now. The module that provides a migration path for …
Read more »Calling all Writers at DrupalCon!
Recap of the first topic of my last message, for emphasis: The obvious topic for the March newsletter is the DrupalCon, of course. There are over 800 people here, though and we need to recruit people to write up their favorite session/s. If you are at the conference, please write up at least one session, …
Read more »Proof of Concept for Stand-alone Drupal Newsletter
Sneak preview of this discussion (if you decide not to click through to the rest of this discussion topic): http://drupal-newsletter.org/issue/2008/01 This DrupalCon has been phenomenal! We had an impromptu BoF session yesterday for the Drupal Newsletter. The three big things that came out of that were a plan for March’s newsletter, the newsletter length, and …
Read more »Drupal China gets Embedded Media Field!
Jacob Redding (jredding), Robert Scales, and John Zhu conducted a panel about Drupal in China yesterday at DrupalCon. We all learned about why and how China is beginning to embrace Drupal. I plan to do a better write-up for the Drupal Newsletter, so you’ll have to wait till then to hear more about it. However, …
Read more »Drupal Text Editor Brainstorming
Oleg Terenchuk (litwol) and I were discussing the Rich Text Editor (RTE) in core thread on the developer’s list the other day. He has a great idea to create some hooks to allow this to be simple, powerful, and easily extendible. It would be written in jQuery, and allow buttons to be built on top …
Read more »Module Development during DrupalCon
So I was just updating the Contributed Modules Status page at gdo to reflect that I plan to work on upgrading Embedded Media Field to Drupal 6.x during DrupalCon, and noticed that fago also plans to work on Workflow-ng “after the drupalcon”. So I scanned through the list to see if anyone else was planning …
Read more »Hotlinking Images? No. Wget Instead.
There’s an open feature request for the Embedded Media Field to allow editors to link to a live image on any arbitrary site. Although this is technically possible, and easy to implement in the module’s framework, this practice is also known as hot-linking, and I’m not particularly interested in enabling that sort of functionality. However, …
Read more »Embedded Media Import Roadmap
So I had a dream last night. About Drupal, as I often do. I envisioned a way to make Embedded Media Import, which is bundled with Embedded Media Field, far more useful than it currently is. And I don’t think it’ll be too difficult to implement either. I plan to work on this at DrupalCon, …
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