Silly Wampa

So I work for this company that makes lots of plugins for web browsers and IM clients. It’s some cool stuff. Not necessarily my cup of tea, but I appreciate the work that goes into it, especially since I’m part of the team that makes it.

Our latest offering is an Avatar plugin that doubles as a chat app. I normally wouldn’t give something like this a second look, but since I’ve been working on it and testing it, I find it to be kind of a cool app. It’s called Zwinky. Here’s Mine:

I originally posted this in January, 2006 on another blog.

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I came across this site this week, BubbleShare. It’s yet another photo-sharing web site. I learned about it thanks to an article on Ajaxian. It’s got a lot of DHTML and AJAX so it’s generating a lot of buzz from that. It’s a very simple site. No real customization options available. The site is in Beta, but if they really want to get people to stick around and distinguish themselves amongst all the other sites, they need to add the ability to create themes and change colors and layouts.

One other thing I dont like. There’s no user authentication. They email you a link that is to your administration area. In one way it might be nice to not have to worry about having yet ANOTHER user/pass to remember, but it doesnt seem that secure without a user/pass authentication.

One plus for this site, it works in Firefox. Some sites give you an activex control to upload photos that only works in IE. this site does that but if you’re not in IE, you can still use it.

I also like that it has a community as well. sharing photos is nice, but sites get more sticky traffic if they have a community.

here’s my album with 5 pics in it. I like the slider for resizing thumbnails. its all Javascript, no activex controls.