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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 …

Social Software: Common Issues and Pitfalls Of Social Media Tools

Written by on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 in web applications, social media, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing.

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As anyone can undoubtedly see happening, community building is one of the most critical activities a publisher of social software tools needs to pay attention to in order to establish its technology and have word of mouth do its marketing job. Photo credit: Yin Chern Ng But what are the critical issues and problems a social media applications builder needs to face and how can they be avoided? Is it enough to provide users with the ability to create a profile, a blog and let them exchange direct messages with each other? Aren\’t users overwhelmed by too many social features, which often distract and take attention away from the application central abilities? Why do the most successful social software tools …

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 …

Web Annotation And Markup - Tools And Services: A Mini-Guide

Written by on Friday, June 1st, 2007 in social bookmarking, social software, social media, web applications, Online Collaboration, Presentation, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Web annotation tools and services make it easy for you to add notes, highlights and visual diagrams on the web pages that you visit, just as you might do with pencil or pens on a real book or journal article. Photo credit: ThinkVitamin.com If you want to mark up the websites you visit with notes and ideas, web annotation tools give you a simple means of doing so. This can be a great way to add your commentary to web content for friends, colleagues or students, not to mention a useful mean for groups to share their thoughts in a direct and easy-to-reference way. In this mini-guide I have gathered together a selection of web annotation tools and services, comparing …

RSS Syndication Meets Online Video - Splashcast MyPodcastNetwork Goes Live

Written by on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 in Content Delivery And Distribution, web applications, RSS aggregator, RSS, Video-Internet Television, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Presentation, Independent Publishing.

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RSS Syndication has long been a feature of blogs and websites, allowing publishers to share their work with a broad audience, and aggregate, arrange and publish that of others. Until now, though, syndicating and broadcasting online video and rich media hasn\’t been the simplest of prospects. All of that changed yesterday. Splashcast has already established itself as a simple way to mash-up and publish online video, audio, images, documents and even PowerPoint presentations directly from a web application, and to a simple, easy-to-navigate web widget. Yesterday, however, a major update to the service introduced the ability to create online playlists from any RSS-enclosed media on the web. What that means for independent publishers and the kids at MySpace alike is …

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 …

Web Operating Systems And Web Desktops: A Mini-Guide

Written by on Sunday, April 8th, 2007 in operating systems, cross-platform, web services, Technical Support, Online Collaboration, web applications, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Wikipedia defines Web Operating Systems (aka WebOS) as: "A software platform that interacts with the user through a web browser and does not depend on any particular local operating system." Web operating systems are also commonly referred to as Web desktops: "A web desktop or webtop is a network application system for integrating web applications into a web based work space. It is a virtual desktop on the web, running in a web browser as software. Web desktops often are characterized by an environment similar to that of Windows, Mac, or Linux, but are now considered to have much more functionality being dependent on the internet. Typical benefits include the ability to save work and settings over the internet rather …