Thursday, June 03, 2004

Webjay - "Mellow Chat"

Thanks to a link from Seb here, I have now started toying around with a playlist of music that might be experienced by a distributed group while they are chatting. I'm not sure of the logistics yet - everyone has a second browser open and they hit "play" at the same time? Could people change the list? Add to it?

Webjay - "Mellow Chat" by Choconancy

11 Comments:

Blogger Lucas Gonze said...

Hi Nancy,

This is Lucas from Webjay. You'd have to have people hit the play button independently. You could arrange to have them all do it at them same via a back channel, but looser synchronization (similar to a mailing list) seems more natural.

One way to allow a group to have write access to the same playlist would be to have a wiki page that links to http://webjay.org/playthispage. Anybody could edit it, and the playthispage link would auto-create the playlist, incorporating changes as they happen.

10:57 AM  
Blogger Nancy White said...

Lucas, fantastic idea. Thanks for posting it -- and so fast! WOW!

11:36 AM  
Blogger Sebastien said...

That wiki+Play this page idea totally rules, Lucas.

2:18 PM  
Blogger Sebastien said...

It would be nice if a chatbot could indicate what is playing when a new song plays. This would enable people who are out of sync to get back on track.

2:34 PM  
Blogger Nancy White said...

So when are we going to schedule a chat and try this out?

7:27 PM  
Blogger Sebastien said...

I'm available for the next few hours.

7:18 AM  
Blogger Nancy White said...

So what IRC channel shall we try... or IM? I'm choconancy on MSN, AOL and Yahoo.

9:31 AM  
Blogger Sebastien said...

Here are three of my favorite channels-

irc://irc.freenode.net/planetwork

irc://irc.freenode.net/joiito

irc://irc.freenode.net/kmtalk

11:01 AM  
Blogger Nancy White said...

I'm on planetwork right now!

11:06 AM  
Blogger Lucas Gonze said...

Missed this IRC meetup. Too bad.

But I would have missed it anyway -- freenode has been dead for me for the past day.

12:32 PM  
Blogger Sebastien said...

I've started a collaborative playlist. Edit it from here: http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/cgi-bin/om.cgi?Collaborative_Playlists/Trial_Baloon

8:26 AM  

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