Ourmedia

There were lots of support emails today around archive.org outages, I had to push through a number of uploads as an archive admin but they all seem to have finished now.

I also put in major updates for single signon. There's still lots of testing needed, but the main components are up and running on the production systems. The end result is that people should be able to cleanly login or out once to access all of our systems. Soon we hope to extend this to include SpinXpress.com in a way similar to how we handle archive.org accounts (we actually, like to do better than that, but that will take some time until we have implemented OpenID - coming in Drupal 6!).

I have been enhancing the embedded player and swatting the various bugs that are shaking out as a result. You can now pass "color" and "bgcolor" parameters to get more of the player to match the embedding site. Still need to expose links, fonts, thumb borders and labels to reach minimal customization requirements. Also need to expose all "Flashparams" for open source players in order to control their colors, etc. Each step makes for cleaner embedding.

The biggest win on this is that the next deployed version of staging will have only one player in use instead of two. Even the Ourmedia home page player will be embedded just like it is on my blog and in an earlier post here in the Ourmedia Tools blog.

This is from staging...

Welcome to the Ourmedia Tools project

This is the place where people can discuss, share and collaborate on the methods, tools and best practices used at Ourmedia.org and related sites. Ourmedia is built using the Drupal open source, content management system. All of our work here is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .