AOL Masala A Mashup

What is Masala? AOL Masala is a Mashup built using AOL APIs. With AOL Masala, you can Chat with your Friends without downloading the AIM Messenger Client and Send Offline Messages to Friends who are not online. Play Games against BOTs Share your pictures from AOL® Pictures with your friends Share your favorite videos from AOL® Video with your friends Share your favorite music from AOL® Music with your friends

APIs Used Web AIM AIM Presence AIM Bots AOL Music Now AOL Pictures AOL Video

The Login Screen The User shall be logged on to the Masala Portal in order to gain access to all the foretold features. Click the Sign In Button

The Main Page (main.htm) Click here to Logout The list of your buddies Clicking here will launch the Buddy’s profile Clicking on this Icon will launch the chat box through which you can send Instant Messages if the Buddy is Online and Offline Messages if the Buddy is Offline Online Offline Click here to view the offline messages sent to you by other buddies Click here to view the videos that any buddy shared with you Click here to view the music that any buddy shared with you Click here to view the pictures that your buddies want to share with you

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look The tab titled “My Music” shows your favorites music from AOL MusicNow and playlists can be subscribed as RSS Feeds Clicking on any Artist will launch a page showing Top Albums, Top Songs, Top Playlists and other details powered by the feed Clicking on any Album will take you to the Album page on MusicNow Clicking on any Playlist will launch the playlist on MusicNow

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look The tab titled “My Pictures” shows your Pictures and Albums from AOL Pictures. You can click over the picture to get a large view of the picture. You can also share any picture with your buddies Clicking on the picture will show up the large scale picture You can share a picture with your Buddy/Buddies by clicking on this link You can also view any of your albums by clicking on the album title

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look The tab titled “My Videos” shows your favorite videos from AOL Videos. You can click over the video to launch the video. You can also share any video with your buddies Clicking on any video will launch the video on AOL Video. (this is not shown in the prototype) Clicking on this will let you share the video with your buddies (similar to sharing pictures) You can search for Videos and add them to My videos Click this link to add this video to My Videos

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look This navigation bar lets you view all the shared stuff. Sharing is done via AOL’s Web AIM API. Shared data packet is sent as a message through the Web AIM API. For e.g., to share a picture, the picture’s URL (from AOL Pictures) and thumbnail URL is sent as a message. This can be an encrypted message. This message is parsed and the final result is presented on the user’s side. Click here to view your Offline Messages Click here to Reply to this message This will launch this pop up Click here to view shared videos Clicking on this link lets you add this video to My Videos Similarly, music and playlists from AOL Music can also be shared Click here to view your shared pictures Clicking this link lets you add this picture to My Pictures

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look The Buddy List: This is the list of all your buddies. The status of th buddy is shown besides the Buddy’s screen name. This is powered by AIM Presence API. IMs and Offline messages can be sent to any buddy by clicking on the presence Icon. Messages are sent via the AOL Web AIM API Clicking on this link will launch this buddy’s profile where you can see his stuff Clicking on this icon will launch the chat box through which you can send a message to this buddy

The Main Page (main.htm) – a closer look Click this link to launch a Game BOT Clicking on this link will take you to AOL Pictures page where you can create your own Photo Albums

How does a Game BOT work? Game BOTs are programmed in order to respond to the data sent by the user’s action in the game. For example, each move of a chess game can be sent as an IM to the BOT and the BOT shall be programmed in order to respond to the move by sending back the probable data as an IM. This data can be parsed to display the move of Computer’s side to the user. API used: AIM BotsAIM Bots

Other features which can be added Sharing of addresses through Mapquest APIMapquest Enabling phone calls via AIM Phoneline APIAIM Phoneline Making the Video Search integrated through AJAX Video search Integrating Expressions, to let AIM users access and edit their buddy icons, wallpaper, smileys, and sounds.

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