If you have any interest at all in creating or watching web based television then Tubefilter will be useful to you.
Tubefilter is web magazine with a purpose and that is to provide news about and promote episodic web television. Tubefilter wants to see the more episodic shows on the net and they are hard at work chronicling, reporting and issuing awards to the best in web broadcasting.
So the simple message is – read http://news.tubefilter.tv/ it could useful and they are certainly talking about the future of media.
This is not a typical subject for Shared Creation. We are not a place to talk about celebrity or to laud and analyse those artists who are achieved vast mainstream success. However I must make an exception here and mention the sad death of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson was without doubt both a creative genius and man with troubles of his own, so often it seems that the great creative people walk this tightrope that hovers between greatness and something much darker and more destructive. However this is not something I want focus on.
I just want to say that at his best Mr Jackson redefined pop music, video making and stage craft, taking each to new levels of excellence. So I say take a moment to look at very best of his work and try to learn something from it. Over the coming days I’m sure recounts of his life will be all over the media and impossible to avoid. Look at these and learn. That way maybe something great will come out his untimely death.
As exciting as film making, nothing quite has the edge of a live broadcast. That’s something I hadn’t thought too much about until I discovered Justin.tv; which has been around a while but somehow escaped my gaze.
Apparently this started life as a webcam attached to a cat. It’s all grown up now and hosts quite an array of lifecasters and webcams all broadcasting live onto the Internet.
In effect this a selection of live channels all broadcasting all the time. The potential is enormous.
There is also the option of looking at previous broadcasts from the various casters.
At the moment most of the shows are one person being watched or interacting with people in a chat room. Though its only a matter of time before some professionally made shows are airing live to the net. To take a look at one of the best examples of this take a look at http://live.twit.tv/ – fine ongoing technology broadcasts.
So if you think you’d enjoy life casting, or feel like taking a look at what is being broadcast at any given minute then take a look at justin.tv
If youtube allowed people to share video online, these services are the start or personally produced televison online.
Yes folks its another rock solid and completely free to use online image editing system. At this rate no one will be launching new computer based basic editors, the cloud will have the market sewn up. Or will it? You see Splashup comes in two interesting flavours.
That’s right it comes in two versions – an online editor with the usual features and much more interestingly an Adobe Air ‘lite’ version.
The web based editor is not too different to most other offerings in its class.
Its the Adobe Air version that interests me. It downloads and installs in no time flat, and being Air based is instantly multiplatform. It prefers to work with PNG and JPG images and really excels at quick and dirty webcam captures.
Its nifty little interface gives you all the basic features of an image editor in an efficient little space. I worked on it with a Web Cam capture and few small images on my PC. It always behaved itself and operate in a pleasingly fluid way.
In other words if you want a simple and lightweight image tool, and maybe a more powerful online version – take a look at Splashup.com.
As for the web taking over – I wonder if the real winner will be multiplatform platforms + the cloud. Its a killer combo.
This is a quick introduction to Songkick, a service where fans help fans find music events. Its a niche market social networking site. Once upon a time something like this might have been a forum , now it is much more powerful.
It works like this; visiting the Songkick website allows you to keep track of upcoming music events across the country. Logging on with an account, lets you tell the site about new events, note that you are going to an event and communicate with other fans.
So far, so social media.
Now for the much more clever than average part.
All of this social networking builds up into an impressive database and Songkick is putting this to good use with the Songkicker application. This installs to your PC (or Mac), and integrates to some of the most popular media players. It will start tracking your music library and let you know about new releases and upcoming events.
This is a cool development – social networking lets fans, help fans and the bands they love. All the time you get to listen to your favourite music.
