365 Tube is a project to verify the feasibility of an enterprise-2.0 version of a YouTube-like podcast library based in the cloud. The project can be downloaded from Codeplex http://365tube.codeplex.com/ and used for free. Using the code and instructions posted here everyone can setup a private YouTube-like video library, e.g. for enterprise-2.0 - in a few hours, completely built on cloud components. It also demonstrates how application design has chanced from code-centric (in original pks) to... [More]

We are almost done. In this blog post we are going to see how to finalize our configuration of 365 Tube, our Youtube-like Podcast library for Office 365 (http://365tube.codeplex.com/). The last step is the creation of a new site collection on our Office 365 Plan E environment and deploy the WSP package that you can find directly here http://365tube.codeplex.com/releases/view/86355. The steps to follow are: Create a new site collection with a custom template Upload the 365 Tube wsp file... [More]

In this blog post we are going to see how to configure the Transloadit.com service for our 365 Tube project (http://365tube.codeplex.com/). Transloadit.com will be responsible for transcoding our uploaded video to mp4 and extract thumbnails from them. These videos are then stored directly on our Amazon S3 storage we created before. Hence, Transloadit.com has to know how to communicate with Amazon S3. Transloadit.com (http://www.transloadit.com) allows to create transcoding templates that proces... [More]

In this blog post we are going to see how to setup the Amazon S3 account necessary for our 365 Tube environment presented on Codeplex http://365tube.codeplex.com/. As you already know, Amazon S3 will be used as cloud service to store all videos and thumbnails that are transcoded by the Transloadit.com service. Latter is used by 365 Tube to upload the videos and link them with Amazon S3, respectively. For this demo we are going to create following elements: Two S3 buckets: these buckets wi... [More]

In this blog post I am going to show you how you can assign the currently logged in user to a user and group form field control by using the ECMA Client Object Model and the latest version of the List Form Manipulation Framework (LFMF) that you can download for free on Codeplex. This code sample can also be used to understand how to retrieve the currently logged in user by using ECMA Client Object Model. First of all, upload and activate LFMF on your site collection and create a simple task li... [More]