Brandhouse Mixology Silverlight Enterprise Web2.0 Portal
New Media Labs develops the first silverlight Enterprise Web2.0 portal in South Africa for the brandhouse mixology program. Mixology will use this social networking website to link Mixology members together. And in doing so promote bar staffing as a respectable career. The mixologist will be able to take video footage of themselves “Flaring” or mixing cocktails and upload them to a mixology silverlight video server. Maps will provide locations of each bar with a Mixologist bar staff member, along with links to their profiles or videos they have uploaded. Photographs taken at events will be uploaded to a photo profile for Mixology and only viewable by Mixology members.
The video content was originally going to be provided by youtube. But due to the complex authorisation workflow process brandhouse required, we decided to build our own video encoding and streaming service. The videos were then encoded using the Silverlight2.0 Encoder (apparently the first production purchase of this software in South Africa).
This was a very fun and exciting project. The application has come out of the testing phase so watch this space…
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- upload and tag images and video
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- find your bar using the maps mashup
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- Popups show you the name of the bar and bar details.
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- Enumerate through the members of the team
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- Events, with photos, videos and members who attended.
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- High level logical representation of the technology architecture.
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