New Goal: Digital Flashcards!!

We were still trying to decide what to do with mashups when we met up today. Fortunately, we found Popfly.com (see links) which offers many different styles of mashups that should be simple to create. Popfly.com offers many useful applications that we need to explore futher, including:
Image Comment-Comment on a picture.
Image Scraper-Finds any images on a page and returns a list of their links. You can grab all of the photos from a website- We're thinking oral pathology lab pages.
Carousel-Displays pictures in an interactive carousel. This is really fun and easy to look at.
Page Turner-A book that flips through images.
Photoflip-Displays images on categorized cards in a flipping book. Digital Flashcards!! This application seems to be the most useful for our purpose. We need to figure out how to add text. Possibly Image Comment can help us with that.
One of the biggest road blocks we've found with this program is how to get the necessary slides from the WSU website to Popfly.com. So far we haven't been able to successfully display any useful pictures on the Photoflip, but we have high hopes that we will eventually figure it out. We attempted to drag the slides from the website to our personal album at Flickr.com (see links). For some reason Popfly won't display any of the slides that we transfered that way. Maybe we could upload photos to Flickr and give them all a random tag that no one else would use. Then we could just search for that tag. We have some other ideas that we need to try, but as of now we are at a stand still. If we can get this application to work for us, it could be great!
About Microsoft Popfly Alpha: You must create an account and be invited to join via e-mail. The process is quick, simple, and free, but they are only allowing a limited number of applicants. The most difficult part is figuring out how to utilize the applications. There is a tutorial to help you navigate through the lenghty process. We highly recommend using the tutorial before you mess with the program too much. It will save you a whole lot of time and frustration.

Gina & Joni
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