Lately in my spare time I have been quietly plugging away at building a simple YouTube uploader application in Air.  Nitobi encourages us to spend part of our time on our own pet projects, as well as community interaction and contributing to open source initiatives.  I have been working on this application ( YuTuplr – as in a short form of YouTube …

The day started like any other day, sitting tired on SkyTrain on my way to work, when I happen to catch the headline on the newspaper of the commuter in front of me.  “Kutcher’s race to a million twitter followers.”  With peaked intrest I pulled out my iPhone and read some more about it.   Ashton Kutcher had some 9 …

Integration with Overlay’s services was somewhat easier. They have a published API but unfortunately for this project, it is intended for use on other websites, so it did not make sense in a client application. Overlay also has a flash movie that they use in their pages to support viewing, creating and editing overlays. The flash movie is an AS2 …

I recently had the opportunity to work on an interesting project. Overlay.tv offers a service that allows their users to create overlays of YouTube videos by adding contextual items like text, links, and product ads. Overlay.tv wanted an Air application to help introduce new users to their service. Overlay does not host the movies that are the source of the overlay, …