Ahh, the Commons Cam.  What would we do without our frivolous little mental-health-preserving project?  If you’ve noticed a lack of posting here at the Red Frog Blog, it’s because we’ve been busy.  Really busy.  Brains-on-wall busy.  And with all manner of projects, print, web, application development, you name it, we’ve done it in the past month.

So with a new, amazing, beautiful, slick version of WebTree coming out sometime next week, I took a short break from application development today to play with our Commons Cam site, and added a cool new feature.

It’s called a visual time stamp.  Any time someone makes a comment on the site, the system now automatically saves a copy of the webcam’s view.  That way you can see what the hell someone was commenting about, or you can comment when you see a particularly pretty view, or a particularly strange one.

So go ahead and visit the Commons Cam and let us know what you see.  And perhaps share it with some friends?

Enjoy!

Website, that is.

We’ve had our eye on the pedestrian mall for a while and have cleaned up the view before, but never like this.
Several days ago we re-launched a brand new Commons Cam. Aside from the obvious visual differences that go wayback, we wanted to do a little more than provide something fun for everyone to look at. Not that we didn’t improve the overall aesthetic (and there is still more to unveil in the next week!) but we wanted to add some interactivity to the experience as well.

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Fast-thinking Casey set the Commons Webcam to record frames for a day during what was supposed to be a more impressive snowstorm.

So of course we made a video out of it and posted the finished product on YouTube. Music (in order) is Brian Eno, CSS and then Herb Albert.

Here it is: