Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Cool art

These cool pieces of art were done by graphic artist Osione Itegboje, a Sturvs partner. He must have been very bored. :)

Some more art done by another Sturvs partner coming soon.

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

IMEEM Media Embeds

Sturvs has added IMEEM to the list of media that can be embedded with quick-tags (e.g. <imeemsong>VIDEOCODE</imeemsong>) to display media in a Sturvs submission. This means users with audio files/mixes/mixtapes which exceed the Sturvs size limit of 20MB and users with IMEEM videos can still put their content on Sturvs, via IMEEM.

On IMEEM there are currently four (4) types of media users can post, and also copy embed code for, which are song, music playlist, video & photo. We didn’t see the need to enable Sturvs embeds for photos so we decided to focus on only songs & music playlists.

Instructions on how to embed each media type are below:

  1. On the page of any IMEEM song, playlist or video copy the embed code from under the player as shown below:
  2. Now in the embed code you just copied look for a random-looking code (let’s call it MEDIACODE) after the http://media.imeem.com/ part of the src attribute.
    In any IMEEM embed code (either song, playlist or video) the media code is located in the same place with the following differences:

    For IMEEM songs, the media code is located at
    ...http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE…

    For IMEEM playlists, the media code is located at
    ...http://media.imeem.com/pl/MEDIACODE…

    For IMEEM videos, the media code is located at
    ...http://media.imeem.com/v/MEDIACODE…

    e.g.

    <object width="300" height="80"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE/aus=false/“></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://media.imeem.com/m/MEDIACODE/aus=false/” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”300″ height=”110″ wmode=”transparent”></embed><a href=”http://www.imeem.com/someusername/music/somecodeyouignore/song_title/”>Song Title</a></object>

  3. Take this string (MEDIACODE) and when you reach step 2 of the Sturvs submit process, you can now place the following quicktag anywhere in the description field on the form to display your media:
    For a Song: <imeemsong>MEDIACODE</imeemsong>
    For a Playlist:
    <imeemplaylist>MEDIACODE</imeemplaylist>
    For a Video:
    <imeemvideo>MEDIACODE</imeemvideo>

View demo of the above instructions

All of the currently allowed quicktags for video/media on Sturvs are: <youtube><googlevideo><myspace><dailymotion><ifilm><metacafe><brightcove><imeemsong><imeemplaylist><imeemvideo> where a code is pasted from the original embed code from the external website and placed in-between the quicktags to embed the media on a Sturvs submission.

We hope say Nigerian IMEEM users go gbadun our new feature.

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Sturvs on Wikipedia

Sturvs is now on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturvs

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Sturvs Web Search Engine

We would like to introduce to you the beta (test) version of our new Sturvs Web Search Engine.

Sturvs Search searches the entire web for whatever word or phrase you give, and also displays results from Sturvs.com to the right. It can serve as an efficient search engine for Nigerian content, because you know whatever you search for, you are showed what Sturvs.com has to offer for that search.

The Sturvs.com box to the right shows the top 10 search results for that keyword/phrase (by number of votes).

Please feel free to search for whatever you like on there.