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Web-Based Operating Systems: Take Your Desktop Inside Your Browser With G.ho.st

Written by on Monday, July 16th, 2007 in operating systems, Windows, content aggregation, web services, web applications, Technical Support, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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The web operating system is evolving as a form at a rapid pace, promising to free us from Windows once and for all. If you want to take the desktop to your web browser, one contender is well on the way to making it possible. Certainly the last couple of years has seen a flourishing trade in web applications, providing Internet-based alternatives to everything from video remixing and document editing tools to advanced presentation authoring and live video broadcasting services. But as it stands, you need to set up accounts with each service, and access these various tools from separate websites. The notion of the web operating system attempts to unify your web applications to some extent, providing you with …

Online Collaboration: Share Notes, Media And RSS With Zoho Notebook

Written by on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 in RSS aggregator, content aggregation, content creation, web applications, Online Collaboration.

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Online collaboration tools are increasingly important to the smooth running of businesses large and small. So wouldn\’t it be useful to share and collaborate via an online notebook, adding web clippings, video, audio, rich-media web content and even RSS? It\’s already possible. There is no shortage of tools and services that will help you to collaborate on document editing, whiteboarding, and sharing RSS, web clippings or videos over the Internet. But many of the available options come with a reasonably unpleasant price tag, and few combine all of these elements into a single application. Zoho Notebook does just that, giving you an easy way to create, aggregate and share content right from your browser. Packing in a solid list of …

Remix, Mashup And Monetize Your Media With Licensed Content: MixerCast

Written by on Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 in Content Delivery And Distribution, mashups, mashup, content aggregation, Mashup- Remixing, Digital Imaging, Presentation, Video-Internet Television, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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If you want to remix and mashup your own media with licensed content from top branded sources, and monetize the resulting rich-media presentations, you need look no further. Personal media remixing and publishing tools are hot stuff at the moment, with tools like the recently reviewed Flektor, Splashcast, Vuvox and Scrapblog offering different approaches to the trend. The key defining feature of all of these tools is the ability to take your existing media - whether from your hard drive or existing web services like Flickr or YouTube - and blend them together into new combined presentations. These final presentations can then be embedded into your blog, website or social networking service profile, letting your friends or users check out …

Edit, Remix, Mash Up: Share Your Online Content With Flektor

Written by on Monday, June 4th, 2007 in Content Delivery And Distribution, mashups, mashup, content aggregation, Mashup- Remixing, Digital Imaging, Presentation, Video-Internet Television, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Digital content is easier than ever to not only store and share online, but also edit and mashup into new and great looking remixes. Now it is possible to do all of this and more from a single browser-based application. The latest breed of web applications have moved on a step from the first wave of Web 2.0 services that made it easy to get your media online and share it with your friends. Flickr and YouTube are but two of the many popular services that have transformed the web from a static, text-driven medium into one dominated by photo-sets and web-video. The new wave of web apps let you take the media that you\’ve uploaded to the Internet and …

Online Publishing Trends: Is There A Social Media Bubble?

Written by on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in social media, content aggregation, social software, media, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Online Collaboration, Independent Publishing.

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Social media is booming, but is all of the activity surrounding its growth a precursor to a dot-com-like bubble burst? Photo credit: Chekov While in some ways investors may overextend themselves on the social media trend as much as any other social media is growing to become a trend that is based on countless tiny bubbles rather than the huge risk-takers that we\’re used to seeing in the media limelight. At is core social media is about human communications returning to normal levels of discourse that may have been forgotten in the push to cash in on electronic content - and that will require more sophisticated monetization models than those being pursued by most media companies. Here more details: …

Collaborative Film-Making: The Basement Tapes And The New Wave Of Online Movie Mash-Ups

Written by on Friday, April 13th, 2007 in Intellectual Property, media democracy, Mashup- Remixing, mashup, content aggregation, video clip, video publishing, Video Production, Video-Internet Television, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Video - Internet Television, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Want to see your online video mash-ups up there on the silver screen? The Basement Tapes is a collaborative documentary all about the changing face of copyright in the digital era, created by its online audience via video-sharing and remixing, an evolving online script powered by wiki-technology, and the rising new media form of the mash-up. Mash-up and remix culture are redefining the way that we interact with the media. Audiences today are no longer interested in sitting back and passively consuming bland, homogenous mass media, and are instead turning to participatory culture, aided by the new breed of social web applications. The Basement Tapes is an excellent case in point, encouraging its audience to play an integral role in …

Online Multimedia Presentations Get Interactive: Remix Your Photos And Videos With Vuvox

Written by on Monday, April 9th, 2007 in web applications, content aggregation, Mashup- Remixing, InterfaceandNavigation Design, Presentation, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Online multimedia presentation tools are a whole new exciting niche within the Web 2.0 landscape, letting you easily take your photos and videos and create great-looking visual mash-ups from them. It\’s one thing to sift through a page full of uninspiring, identical thumbnails, and quite another to navigate your media collection in a rich media environment. A new service lets you do just that, so that you can create multimedia presentations and interact with them in a hands-on way. If the first wave of Web 2.0 was comprised of services that made it easy for you to share your photos and publish your videos, this next wave of easy-to-use web applications is all about bringing your online media together, remixing …