Scratch

I see a web browser coming to mind...

Maybe you can use the plugins on the computer to run Flash and Java.
Email, chat...

Oh, and of course multiplayer games. Maybe you can have a little thingy that gives you messages when you have them...

I remember the project using Scratch connections that displayed loveits in a cloud. I love that way of information. I have an idea that you would have this giant, scrollable web, and you can look at comments, make them, and even use the forums. It's not that complicated. I could make a project to show what I mean.

That link in your post linked me to your My Stuff page. 

But if you do it through Scratch, you can have your own web browser! Like Greatdane's idea.

On the scratch connections website, theres a project which reads RSS feeds, that uses python, but if scratch could do it, that would be really cool.

I like the storing data on the web for a game. It's good for like saving your game and stuff 

Maybe a tool called a tracker that when you click it gives you different options such as sports, weather, etc., then you can customize and add it. It would be much easier to Scratchers to use a tool than make it

Lucario621 wrote:

andresmh wrote:

Thanks for the feedback!

Could you think of project examples? I really would like to know especific ideas you might have for projects that read/write data to the web.

I Lucario621, you're right, for storing data on the web, we could provide a table so you can store values there. Something like factual.com

Cool 

Magnie, I guess its just that I'm not an OS fan, so just ignore me lol.

Maybe, you could make a top-down view multidirectional soccer game, and you could use use player's actual stats from a soccer website. Is that helpful? 

That would be cool, an AI of that player's actual stats, but that's advanced. But someday, when we all grow up and get a PHD from MIT, we can create that!

It would be cool if there was like an AI trainer. Let me explain:
You play a test game
Your accuracy, score, etc. is fed into a database
That information will turn over to your AI opponent so that the AI is just as good as you

This would be cool for shooting games and stuff like that 

andresmh wrote:

Some examples of data that would be nice if Scratch could read from the web as variables or lists are:
- Sport information (scores, baseball stats, etc) from sites like espn.com
- Weather information from sites like weather.com (temperature in a city, rain, etc)
- Movies information from sites like imdb.com
- Music information (lyrics, songs, musicians)  from sites like last.fm
- Social information from sites like Facebook, Twitter (updates, photos of friends, etc)
- Scratch website info like loveits on a project, friends, comments, etc

What others?

Some of examples of data that would be nice if Scratch could save on the web are:
- Results from a survey
- Scores of Scratch game
- After playing a game maybe it could update the player's Twitter/Facebook status to tell others about it.

I agree with all of those    I'd also like to see RSS feeds somehow imported as lists.

Then their project wouldn't work.    Maybe there could be a block called "If Fails Do" so and so. 

This would probably necessitate some sort of error handling...maybe an:

broadcast [FAIL!!!] if any of this goes wrong{
    something dangerous
}

I'm just wondering... what blocks would you use for getting some information from a website? I can't really think of what the blocks would be like.

Maybe people could make a project where you can see what percentage of the projects on Scratch are yours. If Scratch could check how many projects there are on the website, and how many projects you have (or the program asks you to input the number in), you could do it!

I have one question, why is the NetScratch website gone?

Cool idea! Off-hand, here are some suggestions:

1. Read topology of remixes of a particular Scratch project from the Scratch website (linked list of userID's, maybe, and maybe avatars as well), then create a 3D-ish world where you can walk through a forest of the remixes (which may be clickable, to bring up the actual project).

2. Virtual geocaching: Gobo strolls through a map pulled from Google, and places virtual Tupperware containers full of sprites, which others can find via a virtual geocaching website database.

4. Fantasy Chess Team: Pull scores from USCF site; Choose players; Store and trade your dream chess players like they're Pokemon. EPIC WIN.

5. Appetite suppressant: Read the mediafoodcam tweets; when there's a new one, pull a random image with the keyword "roadkill" and send it to andresmh as a Twitpic 

6. Collaborative access, via Scratch, to a cloud-based text document, e.g., Google Docs.

7. Bard mash-up: Read lines from Project Gutenberg's online Hamlet while displaying random Wikimedia Commons images having the keyword 'Denmark'. Variation: Random Visual Haiku.

8. Good Old Fashion RPG: Store attributes, position, inventory of a spaceship, which you maneuver through a star field pulled from images at sky-map.org.

9. Pull data from your Google calendar, make a list from its entries, use the frequency of appointments and other characteristics in the list to make a musical composition, store the notes on a server with your friends so you play simultaneously, comparing the musicality of the upcoming week.