SynthMaker

Social network interaction

Archive · 2010 15 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

jobro ·

Now I know that this will prolly sound crazy, but I've started this so here we go!

Social networks is the key to spreading the word. Facebook has the Like ability, an iframe that you put on your page to let people spread the word about it.

Wouldn't it be great to have this ability in our VST plugins? You download a pad synth, you like it so you hit the like button embeded in it's interface. The information that you like my pad synth is instantly shared on the social networks.

The result: More people notices your plugin, more people downloads it, and if you have it for sale then it might increse your profit.

philter5 ·

nice idea...

oddson ·

?

philter5 ·

was my first thought, too. perhaps we should start our own SM social network hehe

Acrobat ·

oddson wrote: ?

mmm, ok, that's for the output direction, how about the input? I guess a SM application can receive instructions only from local text files... 😕

Nu Audio Science ·

Acrobat wrote: oddson wrote: ?

mmm, ok, that's for the output direction, how about the input? I guess a SM application can receive instructions only from local text files... 😕

Your not really making much sense at all there Re read the OP

NAS

philter5 ·

i think what jobro means is something like the facebook option "like it" that would transmit the information without opening a new browser window or jobro?

jobro ·

Yep that's the idea here.

Here is the information on how to make a page compatible with the Open Graph protocol: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph

The example is taken from two separate pages:

So by adding the metadata...

<head> <title>The Rock (1996)</title> <meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/> <meta property="og:type" content="movie"/> <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/> <meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/> ... </head>

...and adding an ifarme...

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://example.com" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px"></iframe>

... then you have a facebook compatible site which people can like.

Now is it possible to use the facebook API in SynthMaker to create a similar function?

For more knowledge view this video: http://livestre.am/wRS

rl ·

423,552 people don't like this.

sunsynth ·

Please, can someone enlighten me what this social - products - application thingy means for our future?

I don't get/use it until now but i think i have 2 waken up 😉

MichaelBenjamin ·

i would guess most of it comes from the urge of being part of something bigger, feeling connected, chat, exchange photos, also peer pressure, so its nothing new, but the old stuff in a new package used as either a substitute or addition to older forms of socializing, like irc, email and forums, or the ancient ones, like meeting people in matter.

MegaHurtz ·

KVR would be our social corner?

But this get`s an idear back i had a while ago. What if you could sell your patches via the synthmaker website. Synthmaker should check for: a: If it`s any good/viable. b: under 3% on a 3ghz cpu. c: multy platform compatible. So the people know they wont get ripped off.. The price is right. And nobody gets any bad publicity.(this becouse i yust wont buy a synthmaker patch that i found somewhere becouse it consists of "you guessed it.. Toolkit modules") For what im concerned synthmaker gets 15%. you could even build in an automatic registration. With some form of proprietary licence (self extracting package). So It`s copywritten for free!

I for one like it A LOT becouse it get`s some people at work for something. And maybe it gets Outsim off their butts to fix the last glitches. Lemme know what yall think!

infuzion ·

rl wrote: 423,553 people don't like this.

corrected 😉 Really, I'm all for extra social stuff, & if you want to start something in the Projects forum jobro that is a great thing. But there is not enough dev time as it is! Honestly, can you argue with the following priority list (give or take a few)?

no memory overwrites > crash-proof > perfect MIDI timing > SDK > OSX > more SSE2,3,4+ > OpenSoundControl > Multi-touch > more mouse support > better schematic support (searching, text export/import) > social

Acrobat ·

infuzion wrote: no memory overwrites > crash-proof > perfect MIDI timing > SDK > OSX > more SSE2,3,4+ > OpenSoundControl > Multi-touch > more mouse support > better schematic support (searching, text export/import) > social

sounds like a MANTRA! 😀

MegaHurtz ·

I opt to be hired 😀

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