Todd Dominey describes a Flash app he wrote for the PGA:
As part of PGA.com’s presence at the event, I developed and designed a Flash application that could run on multiple 42” plasma displays stationed throughout the 500,000 square foot convention hall. The challenge, for me, was to create a reusable application in Flash that could dynamically load and display news from the show, general news from PGA.com, photos from the show floor, and a rotating schedule of events. The concept, in a nutshell, was to load the app once on each screen and leave it alone for the duration of the event, while providing visitors a constant, rotating stream of fresh information (similar to the monitors you see at airports).
Very cool use of Flash and RSS (used to update the content displayed in the Flash app). It looks to be similar to the system that fellow iSchool alums James and Nina worked on at Seattle U's Law School. Both seems to be great uses of technology, although not every organization can afford to deploy a fleet of plasma displays...
Posted by Karl
January 31, 2004 02:11 PM