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deleted post : a good dedication! mdd - what did you use? could you give some insight about how you did the synch between lyrics/tune? I am guessing that there is no correlation, the video and lyric=tweet run in parallel. If you have more time, curious about your frameworks too. jquery,rails? Sorry, I also saw the source, and figured out but was afraid of being down voted(it's almost like someone is swearing at you!)…
(author here) danielh was pretty much spot-on... The lyrics are stored with a time offset and indentation level (sort of like a player-piano roll) and the list of tweets is updated periodically by the server. On the browser side, I'm using jQuery and the YouTube chromeless player ( http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html ) When the page is loaded, I take the lyrics information and generate a sparse…
Re: Billie Tweets - a Twitter tribute to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"
#11Thanks a lot for your detailed response. Many times, I forget treating an app like a black box and instead of enjoying/appreciating it, I think about the underlying stuff that makes it.