A beautiful personal expression site based around the idea of scrapbooking, with a gorgeous Flash-based UI and set of wonderfully feminine default templates by the likes of Veerle Pieters and Cindy Li (and others, too). Includes spport for pulling your photos from Flickr, and several other services.
This is what happens when people take decidedly geeky things (blogs, open APIs, wizzy Flash UIs, and so forth) and mash them up with things real (as in non-geeky) people want. Congrats to everyone involved with this — it looks like a really, really impressive web application.
Sidenote: between this and Picnik, the Flash developers are kind of kicking our ass on the web app front. Where are the web standards-based apps that work this well?
Sidenote #2: Anyone know what backend technologies are used in Scrapblog?
001 // Mike Gowen // 04.03.2007 // 2:15 PM
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you dig the UI. We’re pretty happy with how it came out.
To answer your question, the builder app is built using Flex 2, and the website is .NET.
Mike Gowen Director of User Experience / UI Designer Scrapblog
002 // Vernon // 04.04.2007 // 11:05 AM
Hey Jeff,
Seems like the link to Picnik in the sidenote isn’t working, and on top of that you have DEBUG=TRUE in your django settings still (bad boy!).
003 // Jeff Croft // 04.04.2007 // 11:18 AM
Yikes. I enabled DEBUG the other day to troubleshoot something and forgot to turn it off again. Thanks for pointing that out!