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- Visual
Communication
And Video
Publishing -
Selected Tools
And Web
Services -
Sharewood
Picnic Jul06
08: Here's a new
roundup of
cool visual
communication
tools picked
up for you by
uncle Robin
and verified
and tested by
me, Nico
Canali De
Rossi. In this
weekly
MasterNewMedia
digest we have
focused on
creating
presentations
and slideshows
fully online,
as well as
edit images
without ever
downloading
any software.
Photo credit:
Kanchana
Sandamali
Fernando
Here our
selected
visual
communication
tools for this
week:
ProfCast:
Downloadable
tool lets you
record your
presentation
sessions and
export them in
various
formats
BrinkPad:
Java-based
software
allows you to
create
presentations
and slideshows
online
PhotoMajig:
Upload any
image from
your computer
or URL and
edit it online
Gretastudio:
Upload a
PowerPoint
presentation
and start
adding
elements and
content to it
FotoViewer:
Insert a
Flickr
username and
create 3D
embeddable
slideshows for
your website
72Photos:
Upload your
photos, edit
them with many
options, and
add them to
different
galleries
Wordle: Create
a tag-cloud
out of a
normal text
document
Shrink
O'Matic: AIR
based
application
lets you
resize images
easily
- Visual
Communication
And Video
Publishing -
Selected Tools
And Web
Services -
Sharewood
Picnic Jun29
08: In this new
issue of
visual
communication
tools and
services
found, tested
and picked for
you by Robin
Good and me,
Nico Canali De
Rossi, here is
what we have
selected for
you this week:
there are some
cool new tools
and services
to create
presentations
online,
arrange your
pictures in
slideshows,
record any
region of your
screen, and
also to
download
YouTube videos
and add
captions to
them.
Photo credit:
Hamster3d
This weekly
visual
communication
and video
publishing
toolkit
includes:
280Slides:
Create
presentations
online with no
additional
software
FlickrStorm:
Flickr search
engine lets
you look for
pictures and
browse them in
a simple way
S3Mer: Upload
all of your
pictures and
arrange them
in video
slideshows
Pviewer:
Display your
Flickr and
Picasa
pictures in a
better way
through an
interactive
slideshow
Bradicon: Free
application
lets you
convert
pictures into
icons
CamStudio:
Record
everything on
your screen
and export it
in AVI or SWF
for free
DownThisVideo:
Download
videos from
YouTube and
Google Video
for free
without
registering
Overstream:
Add subtitle
and captions
to your videos
on YouTube,
Google Video,
Daily Motion,
and more
- Mobile Video
Broadcasting
Shows Reality
Unfiltered But
It Still Lacks
Relevant
Context And
Channels: Television
original
meaning (from
the Greek
tele, meaning
"far," and the
Latin visio,
meaning
"sight") is a
telecommunicat
ion system for
broadcasting
and receiving
moving
pictures and
sound over
long
distances. In
other words,
it is a
system, that
would
naturally
endow those
using it to
show things
and events
that were
happening
somewhere else
from where the
audience would
be.
But, most of
what we see
today on TV is
very rarely
"reality" as
it is
happening
somewhere
else. Even
newscasts and
sports events
now are
strongly
pre-packaged
for television
programming
with lots of
predetermined
breaks and
sequences that
influence
quite
significantly
the type of
event you get
to be looking
at.
As far as I am
concerned,
live
television is
all to be
re-invented
and the new
real-time
video
broadcasting
tools that
allow just
about anyone
to switch on
their personal
broadcasting
stations is a
tremendous
opportunity to
leverage this
huge
entertainment,
informational
and learning
opportunity.
So, as the
number of
mobile video
streaming
services
increases each
month, the
real battle is
not so much
for who has
the best
performance or
video quality,
or even the
greatest
number of
videos or
viewers, but
for who can
best create
relevant
context around
such sometimes
great, yet so
diverse and
unpredictable
content.
This is why,
while John
just got
excited with
QIK and its
cool
relationship
with social
media tool
Twitter, I am
instead
sliding down
my enthusiasm
for the
platform which
has seen much
improvement in
its looks,
reliability
and
feature-set,
but has made
too little
progress on
creating
valuable
context around
the content
its users
create.
Nonetheless
QIK has
created a
site, Qiklife,
entirely
devoted to
this very
specific task,
creating
context around
content, I
feel it has
not yet
succeeded in
giving the
right exposure
and context to
the many
quality clips
submitted
daily to its
service.
The mistake
may be not
peculiar to
QIK, but
representative
of a trend
that most
other personal
live video
broadcasting
services are
experiencing.
Just like for
non-live video
on YouTube and
other major
video sharing
sites, it took
and it is
still taking
some time for
these services
to develop
cool and
simple ways
for quality
content to
emerge and to
be associated
with relevant
related
context.
In fact, it is
exciting to
see how many
new web-based
services such
as Splashcast,
Magnify,
Panjea and
Videocrawler
and many other
ones, have
been created
to leverage
the bottom-up,
grassroots,
spontaneous
ability of
people like
you to create
the valuable
context and
content
aggregation
without which,
whatever gems
you have get
lost in an
ocean of
noise.
So, if you are
hungry to
start
experimenting
with your own
ability to
broadcast live
from wherever
you are check
out one of
these tools:
QIK
Pocketcaster
Flyxwagon
Kyte
Bambuser
Seero
Next2friends
If instead,
you want to
get a deeper
feel for what
this new media
trend is all
about, here's
John Blossom's
own view on
the
fascination
and potential
created by the
synergy of
live mobile
video casting
and the
real-time
social news
spreading
ability of
social
networking
communities as
Twitter.
Check it out:
Intro by Robin
Good
- Visual
Communication
And Video
Publishing -
Selected Tools
And Web
Services -
Sharewood
Picnic Jun22
08: Visual
communication
tools keep
holding our
interest and
attention as
they increase
your ability
to
communicate,
train and
market in more
effective
ways. Among
our selected
visual weapons
another
web-based
image editors
to apply
effects and
edit your
pictures, new
image search
engines that
make it easy
for you to
find all kinds
of images, as
well as a free
multimedia
player to
embed and
distribute
your image
slideshows.
Photo credit:
FotoFlash
Here my full
list of useful
visual
communication
tools I have
selected for
you this week:
Phantasmagoria
: Java-based
image editor
lets you
modify
pictures on
any machine
Picitup: Image
search engine
lets you apply
filters to
your
researches
Tag Galaxy:
Flick search
engine lets
you combine
multiple
keywords
through a 3D
interface
Splashr:
Arrange all of
your Flickr
pictures, or
someone
else's, into
embeddable
players
Picreflect:
Add simple
reflections to
your images
online
GIFUP: Upload
images from
your computer,
Flickr or
web-site, and
create
animations
with them
Retriever:
Draw with your
mouse, or
upload a
picture to
start a Flickr
research that
matches what
you drew
Web 2.0 Free
Logo
Generator:
Create
customizable
Web2.0 logos
online, with
no photo
editing
software
- Telco 2.0: The
Future Of
Telecoms: Telecoms: Will
they be the
owners of all
future content
distribution
channels?
"Traditionally
, telecom
companies
simply offered
various types
of phone
services and
connectivity,
and moved lots
of data around
- maintaining
and constantly
improving
pipes &
networks was
the primary
mission."
Photo credit:
Ann Triling
Today, the
basic
connectivity
offerings have
become
seriously
commoditized:
prices are
dropping
towards zero
in a ?feels
like free?
way, and due
to the
ever-increasin
g P2P action
the
comfortable
old position
of being a
?dump pipe? is
no longer a
viable option,
no matter
which way you
look at it.
The bottom
line is that
there is no
way that
Content and
Services will
not end up
packaged into
those
expensive
pipes, cables
and wireless
networks.
But take note
of those
keywords:
PACKAGED and
BUNDLED and
Feels Like
Free.
Here the full
story:
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