Zoodown (zoodown.com)
- notequal.net
- Toronto, ON
- January, 2010
Zoodown is an animal website for people of all ages. The site is an
entertaining and educational mashup of YouTube animal videos, along with
wikipedia articles about those animals. The site features an innovative
navigation style that reduces all operations to a single button. Pre-literate
children can interact with the site thanks to text-to-speech recitation of key
information.
Screenshots
(click to enlarge)
Highlights
- extensive use of client-side javascript techniques (using jQuery)
- key technologies are Python, web.py, couchdb, Apache, and nginx
- innovative advertising format appears between videos
- hands-free navigation of videos behaves just like traditional television
- game/points system enables users to participate without logging in