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29 Jul This post is from from my other blog here A company is bringing a new twist to the rise of online video communications: TokBox. TokBox is a dead simple way to video communicate with one another, no downloads necessary. The offer is threefold: Instant videochat, video email, and video conference . The user interface is really user-friendly, and the team has developed a few tools to help you get in the loop.The company was founded by Ron Hose and Serge Faguet in 2007. The idea of TokBox grew out of a personal need to create a richer way to communicate with friends and family. TokBox is different because you ... Click here to read the entire blog post
27 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Sam Whitmore, Founder of Media Survey, considered the online clift-notes for tech editorial joins us in this episode to discuss how traditional media powerhouses are adjusting their business models to align with the user generated content groundswell. Its sink or swim time and the need to cultivate reader relationships through engagement is more important than ever.Original post
25 Jul This post is from from my other blog here This week, Click2Map released a set of new features on its map editor. To refresh some memories, Click2Map enables professionals to easily edit, distribute and manage online maps. The new features include the ability for visitors to show/hide groups of markers, driving directions on a separate tab in the same map, and batch operations on groups of markers.Article on Google Maps Mania: Two Ways to Build Google Maps Mash-Ups Article on Click2Map's blog: New Features Illustrated: Map + Video DemoThe first feature, show/hide groups of markers, is dead simple to explain with an example. Below, I have created a list ... Click here to read the entire blog post
22 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Uloop is the social marketplace for students: Buy, sell, trade, find a ride, a party, opinions on the psychology 101 teacher... Somehow very similar to Craigslist, Uloop is free and exclusively for students - .edu email address sine qua none - in a very ancient Facebook sort of way. Uloop thrives to become the kiosque of the university... Online.Uloop started out in January 2007 at UC Santa Barbara. The company was founded by Corey Cleek, Mike Ho, Scott Lewis and Ryan MacCarthy. The Santa Barbara experience was such a success that the company expended to more than 50 ... Click here to read the entire blog post
18 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Is blogging better than chocolate? For some women bloggers the answer is yes. In this episode Val and Jory discuss how blogging became the new back-fence for women to connect, express themselves and have fun. And with women making up 83% of every dollar spent, it makes sense that brands would want to reach them.Original post
17 Jul This post is from from my other blog here The rise of user-generated content has switched the traditional top down media strategy to a grassroots crowd adoption strategy to make original content bubble up in front of the mass' eyeballs. The most chaotic segment of user-generated content is online video. Its All those questions are really tricky. If you face those questions, then the best ... Click here to read the entire blog post
15 Jul This post is from from my other blog here The user-generated video phenomenon has grown so huge in the past couple of years that a large number of video-sharing platforms have sprouted on the back of Youtube's success. The new online video landscape is a very confusing one for end users who have a hard time differentiating the unique offers of each video platforms. Video search technologies are still at a primary stage, meaning that finding a good video still remains a quest on the Web. StumbleUpon brought us the first generation of video personalization engine by offering a service that understands what type of video an individual user ... Click here to read the entire blog post
11 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Since HyveUp's video quality went up a notch in the recent weeks, I am in the process of re-lifting the first videos I made. After RateItAll and Twitter, it is the turn of Disqus. I met Disqus' Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Ha back in November 2007, 2 weeks after the service launched (remember they launched the same day Intense Debate did). Click here to read the entire blog post
08 Jul This post is from from my other blog here The ad-based revenue-sharing distribution model of most social networking sites comes with a few restrictions for online content producers: even tens of thousands of views or visits do not generate a decent revenue, and since advertisers rule the casa, they refuse to see their ads appear next to explicit content. The free distribution model has its limits - low pay and censorship - which consequently pushes producers of explicit content to look for alternatives.Zivity, a royalties-distributed social platform, is stepping in the online content distribution arena to tackle this frustrating situation. The company was founded by successful tech entrepreneur Scott Banister, ... Click here to read the entire blog post
03 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Apture recently opened up their rich multimedia linking platform to the public. Apture allows site publishers/bloggers to easily find content related to their articles and link to it. The major appeal of this tool is that the linked pages appear in a HTML overlay window (ie pop-up). Click here to read the entire blog post
03 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Graphs and data are pretty geeky items to share online. The information conveyed by graphs is useful knowledge, but the methodology to organize and share the right bits of info requires some strong data analysis knowledge. Swivel is here to help you deal with complex spreadsheets, transform them into intelligible graphs, and share it with everyone, or just with designated collaborators. Swivel has a public side where anybody can upload graphs and make them available for the rest of us, and a private corner for businesses wishing to benefit from the Swivel's technology without sharing their confidential data with the ... Click here to read the entire blog post
01 Jul This post is from from my other blog here Virtual worlds have undeniably taken over the entertainment arena in the past decade. MMORPGs put aside, Second Life was the most advertised 3D innovation of the past few years. Unfortunately, the place is not really fit for teens - a population of virtual worlds crunchers - and it is still not clear how popular the platform is exactly. Alternatives exist: There, Metaversum or Kaneva. There is probably the most threatening competition to SL, even though they don't cater to the same audience. Click here to read the entire blog post
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