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Online Video Overview
Highly regarded Web2.0 blog Read/WriteWeb has posted a good roundup of the various companies providing online video services including search, editing, storage, etc. There are a surprising number of players in this market space.
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/online_video_index.php
Next Vista
Following the trend for user-generated video, New Vista is hoping to be the open-source UnitedStreaming for teachers. UnitedStreaming is the Discovery Channel’s popular video streaming service that slices up video content into small chunks and identifies their congruence with school standards for approximately $2,000/year. Developed by a ex-educator Rushton Hurley, the videos look good but are not tied to standards and there is no formal ratings system.
http://www.nextvista.org/
formatpixel – Online Publishing
This is an absolutely beautiful Flash-based tool for publishing high-quality presentations on the web, weaving text, vector and raster graphics into very slick online presentations that look kind of like the printed books you can make in iPhoto, but online. The details are amazing, with little touches (the page turns for example) that make this an incredibly well designed tool. There are a number of plans from this UK-based company, ranging from free to $80/ year.
http://formatpixel.com/
Adobe and Photobucket to Make Online Editing Site
Veteran video application developer Adobe and upstart web-based photo/video sharing site Photobucket have announced a joint effort to produce a simple video editing web app to merge video, pictures, and sounds using effects. According to Tim O’Reilly’s Radar blog, the site will be live next week.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/photobucket_to.html
Blackboard.com Plays Nice on eLearning Patent
After receiving a seminal and very broad patent for online learning management systems, 800-pound gorilla Blackboard.com says they will not pursue open-source potential infringers such as Moodle and Sakai. Their patent, 6,988,138 appears to be very broad and could have had a stifling effect on innovation, although the Sakai Foundation still has some lingering concerns. There is a nice translation from patent talk into English here.
Online Image Editing Webapps
Web 2.0 blog TechCrunch ran a review of a half-dozen Ajax or Flash based online image editors, including Fauxto, Picnic, Picture2Life, PXN8, and SnipShot. Looks like the largely free, web-based webapps may give Photoshop a run for its money soon. Most of these webapps allow you do edit a picture already up on Flickr, eliminating the need for multiple uploads.
www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/04/online-photo-editing-overview
BubblePly Video Annotator
BubblyPly has an interesting product that posts a new spin on copyright issues on mashed up media. It’s free site allows you to point at a video somewhere on the web and without copying it, allow you to add text bubble-style annotations to it, and republish it as a new URL.
http://www.bubbleply.com
Mux Video Conversion
Video artist promotion site Cruxy had introduced a free online service that will convert video from one format to another. Mux uses Amazon’s S3 data services to store and process the video, so it’s kind of the poster child for a Web 2.0 application. It can convert QuickTime, MPEG 1, 2 & 4, Flash, WMV, and AVI files.
http://mux.am
Audio of the Week
Douglas Rushkoff: Renaissance Prospects. Rushkoff is the author a many great books about media and culture, in particular, Playing the Future, and Coercion: Why We listen to What They Say. This presentation looks at media in context of the influence of values and culture.
47 minute Presentation at the 2004 Pop!Tech Conference
www.itconversations.com/shows/detail243.html
Book of the Week
Douglas Rushkoff’s most recent book, Get Back in the Box: How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Business and encourages people to focus in on their core competencies rather than succumbing to the mass hysteria of “thinking outside the box.” It’s more interesting than it sound and while it’s about business, the lessons apply to other endeavors too. I’ve enjoyed all of Rushkoff’s books.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060758708/stagetoolscom
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Thanks!
Bill
posted by Bill Ferster @ 6:45 PM
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1 Comments:
Thanks for the mention. Next Vista (www.nextvista.org) is a young organization, but we have had a positive response to our efforts so far. A question for readers of this blog:
While we see value in having standards identified for any given video, it would take a prohibitive amount of time for the two of us making Next Vista happen to look up and assign for each video the standards for each state (province, country) in which a user might access our student- and teacher-generated content. We are using a blog environment so that users can post their comments regarding usefulness, lessons using a video, standards to which it applies, and the like. Our basic perspective is that a useful tool will be useful even if no one has explicitly identified one or more standards for it. What comments, supportive or critical, do others have on this front?
Also, as we promote the site we are interested to know what kinds of content are most needed. Please feel free to let us know (info(at)nextvista(dot)org) what you are looking for, and we will try to make it happen.
I hope we will get to share ideas!
Rushton
P.S. I'm still teaching, by the way! It's in the blood, I guess.
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