A combination of 2 college nicknames that is too complicated and boring to go into. Nevertheless, consider me a mid-late 30's guy with a strange sense of the world. Part music and media junkie, part computer geek, part Dad and husband, part freak.
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Here’s a 30 second impression of Netvibes so far… Really Freakin cool!!
I’ve been looking for some type of “in-browser’ solution to managing rss feeds, widgets, social sites, etc… The customizable options on here seem endless and I haven’t even begun to explore the widgets and social connectivity aspect of the site… Check it out…
Check out these demo videos from Immersive Media… These are the same people who did that ‘Street View’ thing for Google Maps, only now it’s interactive video (interactive in the sense that you can rotate around a 360 degree view of the action…
Once the clip intro has loaded and the video starts, you’ll see you can click inside the video and drag your mouse around to rotate your view…
This first one takes a few minutes to load and is a smattering of different environments… The second clip is similar to the ‘Street View’ thing as you travel down a road in Austin, Texas…
More Demos Here…
Only been on it for like 10 minutes, but this looks like a pretty cool mesh of email alert/IM & Social Network connections. Plus you can throw a widget on your blog (like I did over there….).
This is really cool news from my geeky side of life. Adobe is initiating the Open Screen project, which “in a nutshell” is geared towards creating and maintaining an open standard across platforms and devices when it comes to content delivery (primarily ’swf’ (flash items) and ‘flv/f4v’ (flash video, which is becoming the DeFacto standard on the web…))
The big bullet items of this news is:
Would love to get my hands on one of these. I guess from some things I’ve read there are some sacrifices made to allow for the ‘extras’ on this item, but wow… 300 - 600 fps movie recording? 60fps bursts? I love the ‘past movie’ (buffering) on my Casio, but this takes it to a whole new level, allowing the camera to capture full resolution images to the buffer so you truly can never miss anything…
Wow, this one is pretty slick. Download this AddOn and browse images and videos in one of the slickest ways yet. It’s real snappy, very intuitive and highly addicting. The way it handles YouTube is real nice and the ability to search a nice number of image based sites is cool. Quickly scanning through hundreds of search results instead of hitting “next” over and over is also a plus…
I’ve always been a sucker for remixed music, bootleg/mashup stuff, etc… So now we’ve got some nice quality Video mashups happening! Check out this ‘Cut-Up TV” piece and below it… Magnum P.I. on LOST!!
Nice new site from Adobe. Looks like things are sort of broken out into skillsets (i.e.- Designer, Videographer, Photographer, etc…). The content is a little spars so far, but the production value is real slick. Also, in conjunction with the recent release of Adobe Media Player, you can ’subscribe’ to particular ’shows’, much like a podcast, to get the latest and greatest informative episodes… Very cool…
Here’s a handy way to get to the latest episodes of shows you missed. Simply spin the cube, click on a thumbnail, and “Voila!”. You’re off to the content provider of that episode to view your choice… Lots of TV is out there, and this cube is a handy way to browse what’s available from the Networks… More info here…
Here’s a neat tool I’ll have to try. Looks like you can work with this in the flash authoring environment to affect your whole scene (as opposed to having to tween all the instances on the stage…). Click here to get and view the demo…