ThreeMany - personal message sharing portal uses OpenLaszlo
It doesn't happen too often that people inform me of OpenLaszlo applications they have been building. But this week I got a nice mail from Srini, who's working for Media Lasso. Here's what Srini wrote me:
We at threemany.com have been using OpenLaszlo for the past year to develop our product. Threemany.com is a website for separated and extended families to stay in touch using FREE video messages.
That's a cool idea. I always thought it would be great to have a kind of digital wall implemented with OpenLaszlo, leaving video messages and sharing images and text messages. The site is still beta, but Video recording, creating an image gallery with a Flash based file upload and leaving text messages worked perfectly. I even tested Unicode support for the text messages, entering some German special chars, Korean and Chinese into a message - it worked fine.
What was the motivation for the Threemany team to come up with such an application? The ThreeMany blog has some information on this:
We started Threemany to solve a problem that we all faced. The founders and the crew here have friends and family around the country as well as in different parts of the world. Given our busy lives with kids and work et al, and the timezone differences — it is very hard for us to keep in touch with email and phones and all and especially difficult for our kids to stay in touch with their cousins our friend’s kids.
The beta of ThreeMany looks very promising, I bet ThreeMany is using Red5 for the video recording and streaming feature. Thanks for reporting this application to the OpenLaszlo team. We are always delighted to see what you people are doing with OpenLaszlo.