Call for Interns
November 18th, 2007
Eyebeam Senior Fellow Jeff Crouse is looking for interns to help with several web-based projects at varying levels of completeness. YouThreebe is a web-based tool that allows users to make and share triptychs of YouTube videos. It was launched about 6 months ago, but I have a long list of awesome new features that I want to implement, including an “export” tool, better buffering, volume control, and more subscription features. DeleteCity is a WordPress plug-in that scans and caches UGC sites periodically, looking for deleted content and automatically posting that content to a blog and emailing the deleter, asking why it was deleted. The problem is, it doesn’t exist yet. Earthify is a service that maps Craigslist posts onto Google Earth. It was launched a year ago, but since then, some problems have surfaced that need fixing. Plus, there are similarly awesome features that I want to add to it, such as Google Maps compliance and scraping modules for other sites like Gumtree, going.com and Menupages. Fartsy is an artist statement generator that uses human-generated grammars and several different APIs to construct personalized artist statements based on user-provided keywords. It has not yet been launched because it is missing a few key interface features. Fartsy is based on a markup language that I created called Dynamic Text Markup Language, which will also be used in a few other upcoming projects.
These projects utilize (or *will* utilize) stuff such as the PHP, CSS, JavaScript, XML (RSS and KML - the Google mapping language), YouTube API, the QuickTime API for Java, the Flickr API, the WordPress Plugin API, screen scraping (hacking public data for your own purposes), web spidering, and more more more! If you do not already have these skills, you will be taught, but some experience with web development is preferred. If any of these projects interest you, please email me with a resume and why you want to work on one or more of the projects.
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