Comments on: The World According to Shumbee http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Yahoo! Nation » Smiley has a party http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-26981 Yahoo! Nation » Smiley has a party Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:59:15 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-26981 [...] the event, demonstrating some of Yahoo!’s latest product innovations, including the humorous Shumbee prototype that came out of a Hack Day earlier this year. Check out more pictures from Smiley’s anniversary [...] […] the event, demonstrating some of Yahoo!’s latest product innovations, including the humorous Shumbee prototype that came out of a Hack Day earlier this year. Check out more pictures from Smiley’s anniversary […]

]]> By: Karl http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-4012 Karl Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:14:14 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-4012 o yea a bag of foam can you get it to join a chat room now that would be funny lmao the batteries would prob discharge by the time it got into chat lol o yea a bag of foam can you get it to join a chat room now that would be funny lmao the batteries would prob discharge by the time it got into chat lol

]]> By: Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Basically still a Thursday post http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-4002 Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Basically still a Thursday post Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:53:18 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-4002 [...] In one of the more amusing hacks I’ve seen recently, some guys from the Yahoo! Messenger team created Shumbee, a tangible Messenger status control. He’s an RFID reader wrapped in a sewn cloth emoticon exterior that you can place various emotion tiles on top of to swap your online status from Available to At Lunch to Invisible and so on. Aside from being ridiculously cute, Shumbee is a fun example of interesting physical computer interaction and also a precursor to more interesting things like automatic cell phone updates to Messenger to indicate when you come back into range of your computer. It’s also much harder to forget that you’ve left your “Out on an errand” status up for the past week when it’s sitting on your desk staring at you, which would be my main use case for the Shumbee. [...] […] In one of the more amusing hacks I’ve seen recently, some guys from the Yahoo! Messenger team created Shumbee, a tangible Messenger status control. He’s an RFID reader wrapped in a sewn cloth emoticon exterior that you can place various emotion tiles on top of to swap your online status from Available to At Lunch to Invisible and so on. Aside from being ridiculously cute, Shumbee is a fun example of interesting physical computer interaction and also a precursor to more interesting things like automatic cell phone updates to Messenger to indicate when you come back into range of your computer. It’s also much harder to forget that you’ve left your “Out on an errand” status up for the past week when it’s sitting on your desk staring at you, which would be my main use case for the Shumbee. […]

]]> By: Pascalin Silviu http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3928 Pascalin Silviu Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:26:41 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3928 I’m glad you liked my audibles and the webcam concept. I have shown them to all my friends and they have asked me how to use them on the chat window. Simple, I said, just use copy & paste :D So, is there any possibility to put into practice these Romanian audibles? I tried to translate them in English, as much as I could, because they are especially Romanian expressions. http://atestat.xhost.ro/portofoliu_flash_audible_yahoo_english.htm Have a nice day ! I’m glad you liked my audibles and the webcam concept. I have shown them to all my friends and they have asked me how to use them on the chat window. Simple, I said, just use copy & paste
So, is there any possibility to put into practice these Romanian audibles? I tried to translate them in English, as much as I could, because they are especially Romanian expressions.

http://atestat.xhost.ro/portofoliu_flash_audible_yahoo_english.htm

Have a nice day !

]]> By: Andy http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3909 Andy Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:02:05 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3909 :) So how do the hack days work? is it time to work on personal projects that have been started in their own time? or was Shumbee thought up and created from start to finish in one day? Obviously the equipment needed to make Shumbee would have to have been available (is there felt and a sewing machine tucked away in yahoo's office for just such a situation like this? /:) if so what else do you guys have lying around :p ) I remember studying RFID at uni all those years back when it was going to revolutionise the world... maybe this is the start for consumer applications :D I would have thought the phone idea would have been far simpler and more useful to construct? either using the bluetooth as suggested or simply attaching a RFID tag to the phone? They trialed something similar at my uni where members of staff wore an active badge.. sensors placed in various rooms around the campus would let you locate members of staff without having to page them. how about putting the sensor from the Shumbee on your seat and the RFID tag on your bum :p a better solution for bee would be her coffee cup.. that follows her around more than her phone.. and you could gauge the status mood from the coffee level :-" :)

So how do the hack days work? is it time to work on personal projects that have been started in their own time? or was Shumbee thought up and created from start to finish in one day? Obviously the equipment needed to make Shumbee would have to have been available (is there felt and a sewing machine tucked away in yahoo’s office for just such a situation like this? if so what else do you guys have lying around :p ) I remember studying RFID at uni all those years back when it was going to revolutionise the world… maybe this is the start for consumer applications I would have thought the phone idea would have been far simpler and more useful to construct? either using the bluetooth as suggested or simply attaching a RFID tag to the phone? They trialed something similar at my uni where members of staff wore an active badge.. sensors placed in various rooms around the campus would let you locate members of staff without having to page them. how about putting the sensor from the Shumbee on your seat and the RFID tag on your bum :p a better solution for bee would be her coffee cup.. that follows her around more than her phone.. and you could gauge the status mood from the coffee level

]]> By: Andy http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3880 Andy Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:47:45 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3880 hey Pascalin Silviu, You can get a unique sound when each friend signs in and out (or changes status and when they IM you)... even more you can get their name spoken to you when they do this. Sounds you can pick from a library of default sounds or pick your own (wav,mp3,avi,mpg,mov) just about any file with sound in it.. check out the plugin here: http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/513/locale/en Have fun... :D hey Pascalin Silviu,

You can get a unique sound when each friend signs in and out (or changes status and when they IM you)… even more you can get their name spoken to you when they do this. Sounds you can pick from a library of default sounds or pick your own (wav,mp3,avi,mpg,mov) just about any file with sound in it.. check out the plugin here:

http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/513/locale/en

Have fun…

]]> By: Administrator http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3867 Administrator Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:25:29 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3867 Pascalin - Those are very cool! Thanks for sharing your ideas. I don't know what the audibles are saying :) but they look great! I also like your webcam concept a lot too. Cheers, Sarah Bacon Pascalin - Those are very cool! Thanks for sharing your ideas. I don’t know what the audibles are saying but they look great! I also like your webcam concept a lot too. Cheers,

Sarah Bacon

]]> By: Pascalin Silviu http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3856 Pascalin Silviu Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:58:46 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3856 These days I have lost almost all my dates from my P.C. because my hard disk “died”. However, I think I was a little lucky because I saved some of my work, before that incident had happened, on a memory stick. That is why some of the audibles (those with sound) are not completely finished, because I have to correct again their moves. http://atestat.xhost.ro/portofoliu_flash_audible_yahoo.htm The idea to make these audibles has crossed my mind after a long chat with my yahoo friends from my list. We were asking ourselves why the other countries have audibles in their languages, and we, the Romanians, don’t have such things. Although I haven’t attended a professional preparation to be able to work in flash (a document to attest my preparation in this domain) I begun “the operation” with pleasure and the desire to make something useful for this chat program. At the beginning I had no productive idea, but now I have many “animations” in my mind, but now the time is very brief and even so, I have to share it with the other passions I have, such as photography, graphics/ digital graphics, making short movie clips ( for relaxing myself). I think that creating some audibles for each country, in many languages, could be one of the best ways to promote this kind of chat program. The audibles’ creation should be based on the originality of the graphic design and funny sounds, so that they could captivate us, the yahoo users, with their charm. On the other hand, another point of this problem is how fast can you find/use/send them. We should find a link or a discrete button on the chat window where to find all the audibles made so far. However, there are many other possibilities of personalizing yahoo messenger; for example we would like to know by a special sound, chosen by us, when one of our friends signs in or out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5mIyKILr3U But, till then, I salute you respectfully from this little point of the Globe - Vaslui,Romania These days I have lost almost all my dates from my P.C. because my hard disk “died”. However, I think I was a little lucky because I saved some of my work, before that incident had happened, on a memory stick. That is why some of the audibles (those with sound) are not completely finished, because I have to correct again their moves.

http://atestat.xhost.ro/portofoliu_flash_audible_yahoo.htm

The idea to make these audibles has crossed my mind after a long chat with my yahoo friends from my list. We were asking ourselves why the other countries have audibles in their languages, and we, the Romanians, don’t have such things.
Although I haven’t attended a professional preparation to be able to work in flash (a document to attest my preparation in this domain) I begun “the operation” with pleasure and the desire to make something useful for this chat program. At the beginning I had no productive idea, but now I have many “animations” in my mind, but now the time is very brief and even so, I have to share it with the other passions I have, such as photography, graphics/ digital graphics, making short movie clips ( for relaxing myself).
I think that creating some audibles for each country, in many languages, could be one of the best ways to promote this kind of chat program.
The audibles’ creation should be based on the originality of the graphic design and funny sounds, so that they could captivate us, the yahoo users, with their charm.
On the other hand, another point of this problem is how fast can you find/use/send them. We should find a link or a discrete button on the chat window where to find all the audibles made so far.
However, there are many other possibilities of personalizing yahoo messenger; for example we would like to know by a special sound, chosen by us, when one of our friends signs in or out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5mIyKILr3U

But, till then, I salute you respectfully from this little point of the Globe - Vaslui,Romania

]]> By: mrbigdeal http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3840 mrbigdeal Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:52:39 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3840 looks like a diverse fun place to work! hey, but where are the women...well I guess there is sarah ;) looks like a diverse fun place to work! hey, but where are the women…well I guess there is sarah

]]> By: mrbigdeal http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3838 mrbigdeal Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:51:19 +0000 http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/06/the-world-according-to-shumbee/#comment-3838 also, the comment about "showing his tattoos". Wow...what century is your company from? At my company and almost everyone I know, there is no dress code, and interesting characters are completely encouraged (as are interesting ideas). Last I read, tattoos aren't illegal. Why would he need to cover them up? If your company is imposing those types of rules, I would leave for a place that focuses more on "what" you do, rather than how you look. Maybe I am just spoiled after working in the silicon valley and sf for so long. also, the comment about “showing his tattoos”. Wow…what century is your company from? At my company and almost everyone I know, there is no dress code, and interesting characters are completely encouraged (as are interesting ideas). Last I read, tattoos aren’t illegal. Why would he need to cover them up?

If your company is imposing those types of rules, I would leave for a place that focuses more on “what” you do, rather than how you look. Maybe I am just spoiled after working in the silicon valley and sf for so long.

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