Calling Flash Ninjas – Are You Developing for Wallop?

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I’m in the process of writing a blog post for my ZDNet blog about Wallop. After a strong start it seems to have slowed down considerably. Because Flash developers were a major target for the site, I thought I’d put out a call and see if any of you are building flash widgets for Wallop. If you looked into it and then just never jumped in, that’s even better.

Feel free to email me if I can pick your brain.

[tags]Flash, Wallop, Developers[/tags]

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  • http://www.jessewarden.com JesterXL

    I think Manish entry sums up my apathy for it. While it is very nicely designed, and guides the user, they have no social networking features for a social networking application with regards to human relationships.

    They could of did it in Flash 6, ActionScript 1 API for all I care, and I still wouldn’t be interested.

  • http://www.brajeshwar.com/ Brajeshwar

    Well, I was in their early invites but never got serious. I have many reasons for not liking it but let me keep it personal. One reason I can say right now is – I don’t want to abuse the use of Flash.

  • http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/ Abdul Qabiz

    I like Wallop but I would probably like to see it as an Apollo application. It would be much faster, powerful and social-networking would be on my desktop.

    Then you can imaging Wallop as Dashboard where different widgets do different things (email, im, flickr, social-network, youtube video etc..)

    It would be great if I can hook other Web 2.0 stuff with it.

    To answer your question, I have been looking at their API made some stuff. I would probably do some more to integrate Wallop API with others, mash-ups probably…

    -abdul

  • pan69

    Any site I can not browse without “signing in” will be avoided like the plague. Wallop, how cares?

  • http://danny-t.co.uk DannyT

    I was all signed up, registered and ready to mod, I figured i’d use the site a fair bit, get inspired and start hammering out some mods.

    I’m not entirely sure why but I was not drawn back to the site more than a couple of times. The digest emails contained the same old stuff so I stopped them too.

    I think the site had potential but was too much slick
    interface and not enough done on the interaction with each other side of things.

    However, that said i’ll pop back in and give it another chance now you’ve reminded me of it :P

  • anonymous

    It’s the chicken before the egg thing.. there aren’t enough users to buy the little mods, so there’s a lot of risk involved in making the mods right now.

    It’s also not easy making the mods and selling them. The process is not very smooth at all.

  • http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/ Abdul Qabiz

    Seems, my comments never appear on your blog…

  • http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/ Abdul Qabiz

    I think, Wallop can be more popular as an Apollo application. Where you can use it as dashboard, since you can create widgets or install/buy widgets, you can extend its capability to do anything Flash Platform/Apollo would allow.

    I created some widgets still on my desktop/dev-sandbox. I tried testing one YouTube! one, seems FLVPlayback component doesn’t showup in Wallop…So there are issues but their API is simple enough to get started and use…

    -abdul

  • http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/ Abdul Qabiz

    Heh, I wont write again…This was second time I typed long comment and it’s lost..If I get time, would mail you what I wrote..later..

    -abdul

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Abdul, sorry about that. Your comments were caught up in my spam filter. I’ll try and figure out how to put you on the whitelist.

    Thanks for the comments. It seems like Wallop has just dropped the ball with developers. The UI is slick, but the Flash guys who could help the developer community get to the next level just haven’t been impressed with their setup.

  • jerry hamby

    All the code (mods) I want to write really require AS3. I hope they make the switch as soon as possible. I agree with others that to produce a mod that could make some money, requires a larger audience.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Jerry, if I hear anything about when they would switch to Flash 9, I’ll let you know. Also, pan69, you can view pages without registering, but “browsing” is impossible, you’re right.

  • http://aralbalkan.com Aral Balkan

    I found it too much of a hassle to sign up. Apparently you need a US credit card and the process wasn’t automatic without one. Who has the time, really?

  • http://www.pierinc.com Johnny Boursiquot

    Played around with it and even looked at the API for a bit. Not enough activity to keep me interested. I might revisit it if/when they move to AS3 though.

  • http://www.cleoag.ru/blog/ Den Ivanov

    I make few mods with Flickr API:
    1. just Flickr tag searcher and viewer
    2. wallop flickr wallpapers

    they can me found under my mod tab
    my wallop name cleoag

    i’m 90% done YouTube mod, but now buzy with another stuff, so it still unfinished.