Monday, December 11, 2006

New MySpace widget

I've felt for a long time that I've never really tapped in to the potential of MySpace. Millions and millions of people use it every day, and yet we've only ever had a trickle of visitors through to the One Million Masterpiece, despite many many links on MySpace profiles and blogs.

So I want to have another crack. Eamonn has come up with a little widget that can be used in MySpace profiles and comments to replay images from the OMM at high speed, and allows people to click through to the user profile.







To insert the widget, visit the profile of the picture that you wish to paste, and copy the code in the Myspace Widget box. By clicking in the box all the necessary text will be highlighted ready to be copied.

Paste this code into your MySpace profile or comment, or on any other web page or blog and voila, a cool little animated picture.

First job is to try and seed MySpace with as many examples of the widget as possible, which is where our users come in. We are going to contact every opt-in member that has a MySpace account and ask them to post their picture. I'll report back on the success of this in due course!
Enjoy!

posted by Paul Fisher @ 11:38 pm 3 comments

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Growing growing growing...

The One Million Masterpiece is growing strong. With yesterday's record day of 7,000 unique visitors and well over 2,000 new members we received a huge boost in our aim to break the current world record by the end of the year. With this in mind I thought it might be nice to look back at where this all started.



Just four months ago, at the end of the first week of its life, the OMM was made up of around 300 pictures. At that point the picture looked more like a little patchwork quilt, although the notorious black squares were already becoming a feature of the community. For two months progress was slow, and it took a couple of months to hit the 1,000 member mark. Around two months ago the project saw a shift in approach. Following feedback and intensive discussion the mandatory donation was dropped, and two levels of membership were created. The result was an immediate acceleration in the growth of the picture.



Yesterday we smashed the 10,000 barrier, and the 'OMM Nebula' grew by over 2,000 mini pictures. With more website features coming on line this month, we can all look toward breaking the official world record of 25,297 contributors some time soon.

posted by Paul Fisher @ 12:01 pm 0 comments