(13) Probably the Final post before Steps

After much debate, our team decided to changed our project title to Griddit. I would think that Griddit fits better to our idea because you can really play around with our sites, creating whatever you want, even a collection of maybe say Taylor Swift MVs.

Progress report 2
Once again, consequence of not reading the PDF. Sigh, my team didn't know that the presentation was graded until we got the feedback. My lack of energy due to my my flu did not help definitely, so we suffered quite a bit for the presentation component. Oddly, there weren't any questions after our presentation except for one on how we did the synchronised Youtube video. But there were a few issues raised in our feedback and I'll address it below.

(1) Not Mobile friendly
- Difficult for Griddit to be mobile friendly. When you have many things going on, the small mobile screen size is really not ideal. Furthermore, our key widget is video. Typically, mobile will launch the full screen video when played, so it defeats the purpose of Griddit. So for now, we will still focus on desktop experience.

(2) UI is bare
- Uhm yeap, it is. Improvements of layout coming along the way! :)

(3) App is only useful for bigger events
- Yes i agree with you. Smaller events wouldn't need livestream due to lack of demand and think of the logistic cost of livestream for these smaller events, it's simply not economical. Also we need to consider why people create events. They create for people to be there. People adds on to the atmosphere. So a scale is necessary to justify for a livestream.
- Think of why people need livestream -- Geographical distance (Football), and lots of attention (Elections).
- Weddings is not really possible because once again, logistic cost (if you are streaming your wedding for overseas guests), and also why would you want your guests to be hooked onto their phones? And Griddit is not meant to be mobile friendly due to the nature of its idea.

(4) Legality of streaming
- Yes, it has been an area of concern. So to keep it simple, I think what we have been doing so far is to prove there's a demand for this and people would use it. Judging by the fact that 1 line of marketing could get us 115 live users, even I myself was taken aback by the numbers. In the long run, working with event organisers will really be the way to go. It will be exciting if that happens!! :)

(5) Uses for other people
- We did not illustrate this well enough. But because of the customisability, the website can even allow you to create a collection of Youtube videos, say Taylor Swift's MVs. Like a pinterest of your favourite videos. We touched and go on this, and could have talked more about it!
- Sync youtube videos allow you to connect with your LDR partner! No more "1,2,3... PLAY!" haha..

Alright, that's it for this post. Looking forward to STEPS day! :)

Ciao
Mei Lan