Flickr's now even more fun...

Thanks to the people at Airtight Interactive you can now explore Flickr in style. Take a look at their Flickr Related Tag Browser. Type in "Cyfle" and all our photos of our trip in Kuala Lumpur come up. With more popular tags a circle of related tags also comes up - nice way to explore Flickr.

I've been working on customising the Bandit Photo Gallery this week and have got captions for the photos working now. I've also been trying to enable the user to switch between different photo galleries, by switching the XML file that is called into Flash. I've got it working, but needs a couple of tweaks before it goes live.

Bandit Photo Gallery

The Bandit Photo Gallery is now live. I'm pleased with how it's looking, although can't take all the credit. Thank you to the people of Airtight Interactive for all their hard work developing the Postcard Viewer flash gallery. I am hoping to do some Actionscripting as well though to customise the viewer further. I'd like to add captions to the photos in a similar way to Airtight's Autoviewer. I also want to extend the gallery to allow people to browse multiple pages of photos - hopefully arranged into albums.

The second Bandit 247 live webchat happens tonight! Huw Stephens will be logging in at 10pm to take questions from Bandit viewers to fill the 1h 7min gap in the transmission of Bandit - S4C have even managed to squeeze in the weather after Ralio. Unfortunately there won't be a video webcast as well, but hopefully we'll sort it out in the near future.

Almost Easter Already?

My work placement at Boomerang seems to be going far too quickly, I can't believe I've been here over a month already. I'm still busy with the Bandit website at the moment. The new, slightly larger layout went live last week to enable more space for the new widescreen videos. There's also new gigs and news sections, and I've almost finished a flash photo gallery which should be live shortly. You can view a sneak preview of it here. I also put up some exclusive web-only live performances last week.

A couple of weeks ago, we experimented with a live Bandit chat to fill the 1 hour gap between the first and second parts of Bandit being transmitted on S4C (due to Ralio). We used Campfire to host the chat and it worked pretty well. At it's peak there were 35 'simultaneous chatters' - not huge figures but not bad for the first attempt. There is another gap in the broadcast tomorrow as well so we're hoping to try the chat out again - this time with Huw Stephens taking questions and hopefully a video webcast of him too.

I've also started work on the Boomerang site. Very early stages at the moment, but trying to get some ideas together about the design.

Alongside work at Boomerang, we've been working on a short documentary of our time spent in Kuala Lumpur. Derwen have kindly helped us by editing it for us. It's looking like it will be pretty short and sweet - about 5 minutes - and put onto DVD so that it can be used by Cyfle as a kind of showreel.