MeBeam

MiniMe with MySpace

In my previous post, I introduced MiniMe, a cut down version of MeBeam,which is ideal for embedding inside your blog, forum, and in respect to this post MySpace.

Personally, I am not a big fan of MySpace, but there is no denying it's a massively popular social networking site and what better way to socialize, then by seeing and talking to others on your page.

The following snippet of code, is what I have pasted into my About me section, and you can see the result of it by visiting my page at www.myspace.com/apakian

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="460" width="323" data="http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="flashvars" value="room=ashods_myspace" />
</object>

I shall call him MiniMe

Meet MeBeams little bro, MiniMe - a portable version of MeBeam that you can use on top of your blog , web page, or forum.

Please keep in mind, this is a pre-alpha release and may not work all the time.

MiniMe can handle 4 people in your room, but will generate an unlimited number of sub-rooms automatically.

To add MiniMe to your site, copy and paste the code at the end of this post, and remember to name your room.

<object width='323' height='460' id='zuhzy' align='middle'>
<param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' >
<param name='movie' value='http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf'>
<param name='quality' value='best' >
<param name='scale' value='noscale' >
<param name='salign' value='t' >
<param name='flashvars' value='room=blogroom'>
<embed flashvars='room=blogroom' src='http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf' quality='best' scale='noscale' salign='t' width='323' height='460' name='zuhzy' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' >
</object>

Skype video conferencing too popular

The Skype multi video conferencing service is temporarily down, due to the unforeseen surge of people who have signed up for the service.

Although a full 1gigabit pipe was dedicated to this feature, it seems it is not enough to quench everyones thirst for multi person video conferencing using Skype.

The service will be down for a few days, until I think of a way so that it works on a clustered architecture, and can scale the same way MeBeam does.