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 ScreenThe 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

OnlineOffline

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 FeedsClicking on any Artist will launch a page showing

Top Albums, Top Songs, Top Playlists and other details powered by the feed http://aol.musicnow.com/rss/artist/?id=

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 lookThe 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 lookThe 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 Bots

Other features which can be added

• Sharing of addresses through Mapquest API

• Enabling phone calls via AIM Phoneline API• 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.

The end