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TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.

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Re: TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.

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Post by jamesshamenski »

It would be nice to hear of some hypothetical usage opportunities. My website usually comes with a keyboard and mouse and a using a phone seems more cool than realistic.

With one good example, I could get excited about the possibilities.

Re: TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.

#7

Post by jerome_etienne »

jamesshamenski wrote: post #4

It would be nice to hear of some hypothetical usage opportunities. My website usually comes with a keyboard and mouse and a using a phone seems more cool than realistic. With one good example, I could get excited about the possibilities.

This idea seem very generic. The application may be more narrow. android 2.2 is already trying to send data from the desktop to the phone. This enter in the same vibe.

imagine youtube movie using this. the phone is an actual remote control. or a presentation with slides, you can control them remotly with your phone.

Re: TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.

#8

Post by isakovic »

postit wrote: post #6

I think you're stealing someones' idea. http://umeboshi-fireteam.no.de/ The umeboshi took the #4 place under inovation on node.ko with this idea.

Nope. Sorry, never heard of it. TubeMote does not use node.js or web sockets (i.e. TubeMote works even with Internet Explorer). If you check the whois records, tubemote.com was registered a full month before the birth of this person's idea.

Re: TubeMote API: Make a remote control app for your website in less than 5 minutes.

#10

Post by isakovic »

jamesshamenski wrote: post #4

It would be nice to hear of some hypothetical usage opportunities. My website usually comes with a keyboard and mouse and a using a phone seems more cool than realistic. With one good example, I could get excited about the possibilities.

We chose the term "website" because it is the least inaccurate relevant term we could think of -- but maybe "web application" works better. What we really mean is "any digital surface powered by a web browser". I am not sure if that helps. We believe there is a whole class of unexplored web applications that this API will power.

Here is just a small subset of possibilities:

- Controlling a slideshow (not just on the projector, but on all the participants' laptops simultaneously)

- A chat system/video playback app that lets friends watch videos together at the same time, around the world.

- A remote control for a public TV connected to the web (i.e. in a bar).

- A remote control for a web-based game.

- Controlling a web-cam in real-time.

- Controlling an RC car powered by a computer running a web browser, with a local client receiving commands from the remote control.

- A voting system attached to a public billboard at a sporting event, where the public can vote from their phones whether a foul was commited.

- A remote for a personalized music player.

- If the mobile device has a GPS, and the browser has permission to access it, then commands could be passed to a website based on the user's location. This could, for example, trigger lights to turn on or off. An algorithm could be in place that adjusts lights appropriately if more than one person is in the room.

- Lazily watching videos on a screen from the couch, with (or without) a Google TV or an Apple TV.

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