We saw Yong Fook’s Sweetcron, and decided to add a SignalFive Stream (http://blog.signalfive.com/stream/). Basically, Sweetcron is an RSS feed aggregator with a social networking bent. You add the feeds you want to track, such as your Twitter, blog, Vimeo account etc., and Sweetcron puts them all on a single page, called a Lifestream. When you log in to the admin panel, you see a Dashboard, showing the most recent items in your stream:

The sweet thing about Sweetcron is that it’s written in CodeIgniter, so it’s easy to maintain and customize. It uses a MySQL database with 6 tables (to store feeds, options, tags, users, items and tag_relationships, or tag-to-item mappings). The application is straightforward and simple, just the way we like it. Here’s a screenshot of the Options page:

With Ping.fm on the one hand, and Sweetcron on the other, you can cover a lot of your social networking generation and aggregation needs. If you like Sweetcron and need help installing and configuring it, take a look at Chris Coyier’s tutorial.

It was a busy few weeks working to get a trailer / branding ident done for online.tv, a NYC-based startup that is going to be launching in the near future. We started with a minute of rough footage, and began crafting a work inspired both by the iPod nano ad, as well as the Chris Brown Doublemint Gum commercial.

After some initial tests, we went to work designing flowing lights, streaks, and particles that explode into snippets of video promoting Online.tv’s various channels.