New Shiz! Quickerly.com

About two weeks ago I threw together a quick prototype of the kind of thing you can build with tinydb.org. I was going to wait and polish it a bit more before letting people use it, but I kept wanting to send people songs so I just had to start using it myself and put it out there. Guess I need to pay more attention to my own “release early, release often” mantra.

The app is called quickerly.com and it’s just a quick way to send someone a song that you want them to listen to. I use it to tweet about songs that I’m enjoying. What’s cool about the app is not really the app itself, but the way it uses tinydb. The entire app is written in javascript. It’s served off a plain html page and uses a little swf to play mp3s. Quickerly uses the seeqpod API to search for tracks and yahoo pipes as a proxy. When you click the share button, javascript writes song data and handling instructions to tinydb. Tinydb holds data about the song location, artist and track names, and instructions on where to redirect and what javascript method to call after redirecting.

Since tinydb uses json and circumvents crossdomain, quickerly can both read and write to the datastore without having to proxy or open new windows. I’ve already found quickerly pretty useful, but by no means is it a great app. I just hope people can take a look at the source code and realize the kinds of cool stuff you can do with tinydb, without having to worry about deploying any server side code. You can literally host a tinydb app on tumblr or blogger. I hope to see way cooler things built on tinydb in the future.

If you encounter any bugs (IE, ahem..), or have comments or suggestions, please put them in the comments of this post. Enjoy. As always, props to my colleagues at labs.laan.com with whom I built tinydb.

Here are a few jams:

http://tinydb.org/1bZ – Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin’) (partial, but badass)

http://tinydb.org/1c1 – Oasis – Married With Children

http://tinydb.org/1c2 – Al Green – Love And Happiness

http://tinydb.org/1c3 – Bob Marley – Redemption Song

http://tinydb.org/1c5 – The Jackson Five – ABC

That last one always makes me smile.

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