Roland Tanglao's Weblog

My notes from Adrian's Large screen deployment talk at the UBC Large Displays Workshop.

Adrian's Large Screen deployment powerpoint slides.

And here's a video (only 2 minutes since I ran out of space on my N93's memory card, aaargh wish the N93 supported 4GB cards and the videos were more efficiently encoded):

More info: http://rolandtanglao.com/archives/2007/03/29/live-screens-workshop-ubc-nicole-family-blog

My suggestions to Nicole Arksey (Nicole's powepoint slides) and the rest of the team on Family Blog:

1. Don't call it a blog unless it has permanent links and generates RSS which Family Blog currently doesn't
2. Use a standard blogging engine like JRoller (if you must use Java :-) ), Wordpress or h*ck even Drupal and focus on the large display UI part. There's a blogging engine for every technology and language so finding one shouldn't be a problem.
3. Instead of writing a client from scratch on the phone, leverage the capabilities of the built in software. e.g. The N80i has LifeBlog built-in which supports the Atom Publishing Protocol and recent N series phones like the N93 and N95 have a built-in Gallery application that also supports the Atom Publishing Protocol. So re-work Family Blog to use a blogging engine that supports the Atom Publishing Protocol and you can use the built in software on the phone.

Large Display Workshop - UBC - Tony Tang - How and why wall and table displays will be used. 20 minutes 52 seconds

Rodger Lea of Mobile Muse and UBC gives an overview of large displays and the other speakers at the UBC Large Displays Workshop held on March 29, 2007.