Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
MyPunchbowl: Plan your superbowl party with Ajax
Category: Prototype
, Scriptaculous, Showcase
MyPunchbowl has launched just in time for you to plan your superbowl party with it instead of evite.
Matt Douglas and his team have put together a highly interactive and rich party planner, currently focused on the at-home party space.
Not only does MyPunchBowl had the rich editing of a party, but it does all of the mashup goodness that you would expect. Embed a Google Map, find photos on Flickr to embed, etc.
It is also nice and social as a site like this should be, with good comment support.
The site is built on Prototype/Script.aculo.us and more. This will give you an idea:
HTML:
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<script src="/javascripts/prototype.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/effects.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/controls.js?1168841639" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/scriptaculous.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/scriptaculous_extensions.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/mypunchbowl.js?1168841639" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/tooltips.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/CalendarPopup.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/colourmod/ColourModScript.js?1168841639" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/colourmod/StyleModScript.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/boxover.js?1168841639" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/rico.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<script src="/javascripts/application.js?1164082447" type="text/javascript"></script>
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3.8 rating from 23 votes
Fan1: Do you want to have a party for the Super Bowl?
Fan2: Great idea! We just need fourteen script tags and we are good to go!
Yet another insanely specialized app that nobody will use/remember to use. Who makes sports party websites?? It’s so much easier to just whip up an email in 3 min.
cool site… very easy to use. Nice use of some Ajax libraries that are maturing …(remember how hard it used to be to get things to work on IE6 and FF??)
[Disregard the people that bash, they are a waste of time to listen to.]
Nice addition to the space. I wonder how it stacks against http://bestpartyever.com
So that’s where brown lives in the color space. This example image has been a very enlightening experience for me.
By the look of the URLs that are generated it looks like this is a Rails app. If so, they should look at the Asset Packager plugin. It’ll combine and compress all those JS scripts into a single JS file making for a quicker first-load. Also if they configure their web server to send the proper HTTP cache headers and use GZIP compression, much quicker reloads for any further navigation or return visits.
Koolvite.com offers a differing alternative to Evite and MyPunchBowl based on the premise that its the invite that matters. We believe that there is an audience that wants their invitations to be richer, distinct and with a personal touch.
We expect to be live by February but below are some sample invitations that demonstrate our concept.
http://www.koolvite.com/getEvent/getEvent.jsp?&guestId=50e0902c1023e3c4011024075a0300fb
http://www.koolvite.com/getEvent/getEvent.jsp?&guestId=000000000f35a2a1010f35a5840100de
http://www.koolvite.com/getEvent/getEvent.jsp?&guestId=50e0902c1023e3c4011026c470090098
Thanks for very interesting article. btw.
I really enjoyed reading all of your posts.
It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s
point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work.
Greetings.
Thank You for another very interesting article.
It’s really good written and I fully agree with You
on main issue, btw. I must say that I really enjoyed
reading all of Your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas,
and observations from someone else’s point of view… it makes
you think more. So please try to keep up the great work all the time.
Great job
ice use of some Ajax libraries that are maturing.
Daniel from fsbo New Mexico