Voldemort's Underpants
Team Members
- Chris Selmer
- DavidPots
- Flip Sasser
- yong
What
Celebrity Passage is a place for people to gather and remember favorite celebrities that have passed to the other side. Leave memories/tributes to the celebrity, see what other people are saying, and learn more about their life.
Where
- Entry URL:
http://0
How
GEMS:
authlogic
extlib
addressable
twitter
geokit
hpricot
mislav-will_paginate
ar-extensions
nokogiri
rufus-scheduler
peteonrails-vote_fu
rmagick
amazon-ecs
PLUGINS
acts_as_list
jrails
ken
vote_fu
wikipedia
acts_as_tree
js_named_routes
seed-fu
wikicloth
SCRIPTS
jquery
jquery expander
Comments
Until this tool can be accessed AND edited by multiple users and can send automatic email/SMS reminders, I don’t see how it’s more than a glorified spreadsheet. And yes, getting users scheduled into tasks/periods was confusing. I had to read the user comments here to figure out what was going on with that.
Personally, I found the concept to be a bit tasteless. However, realizing that remembrance is the better part of grief, I concede that there are probably users who would enjoy this kind of thing.
Moving forward, when I tried to access some pages, I got an error message from the Google Maps API. There were also some broken links, notably the second page of celebrities to browse.
The UI isn’t bad, and the aggregation of tweets isn’t bad. I’d like to see the tech applied to a less macabre subject, though.
This was nicely done but not very ambitious.
Got a Google Maps API error alert box when going to a celeb’s page. Not really my sort of thing but a pretty good execution. I could see something like this taking off under the right conditions. I wouldn’t be surprised to see other people copy this idea (e.g. Yahoo).