Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications.
What are some specific examples of things I can do with Popfly?
1. Customize and share media: Popfly makes it easy to share and customize pictures, podcasts, music, and video. You can easily build beautiful slideshows using pictures from Flickr, Windows Live Spaces, Facebook, or embed a Podcast or video player hosting videos from Soapbox or YouTube directly on your Facebook profile, Windows Live Spaces page, or any Web page.
2. Describe your online persona: Popfly enables you to customize and stitch together your online persona in one place. You can create mashups that show what you dug on Digg.com, what you are buying or selling on eBay, what Facebook events you’re attending, what your friends are doing on Twitter, game scores from Halo 3 and much more.
3. Add some fun: You can easily spice up your Web site using Popfly, say by adding customized games like Whack-a-mole or asteroids with pictures of your friends and family or create custom quizzes or polls that you can easily embed on your Web site.
4. Put it all together: You can build a custom home page, say for your school’s sports team and easily add things like team photos, a team schedule from an RSS feed, video from previous games from Soapbox or YouTube, Virtual Earth maps with directions to game locations and more, all without writing code.
5. Advanced users: Advanced users and users of Visual Studio Express can use Popfly as their free “playground” for building custom HTML, JavaScript and Silverlight applications and easily call Popfly blocks directly from code.
Create Games. Popfly is a simple way to create and share games with your friends. Choose from a variety of built-in templates or start from scratch to create a side scrolling game, a 2D shoot-em-up, or a host of others. And best of all, you can get started without writing a line of code.
Build Mashups. Mashups are a kind of application that take information from many places and mix it together. With Popfly’s mashup creator you’ll be able to take photos, RSS feeds, and many other kinds of information and combine them to create your own personalized view of the web.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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