May 29, 2006
New Tools For Presenters And Visual Communicators: The Best From Sharewood n°2
 
Photo credit: Mark Scott
- Photo playback ticker engine allows to view, share and publish digital images online.
- Content sharing clearinghouse allows anyone to host and share media files easily.
- Online digital image archive for your own photos allows private and public use.
- Backup archive for digital images allows album creation, tagging and story-making.
- Personal host for broadcasting your video and audio files online.
If you are interested in staying abreast with the new tools and services that may complement, support or facilitate your work as a professional presenter, communicator or trainer, this is my weekly personal selection of some of the most interesting presentation-related products becoming available.
These online tools and services give presenters and communication professionals the capability to edit and store images, find voices for presentations, hear and speak to others via mobile devices and much more.
The selection of gems you find here is extracted from my weekly Sharewood Picnic, a basketfull of new online services and new media tools that I publish on MasterNewMedia.
Here what I have selected for you this week:
- nexImage
nexImage is a fully functional browser-based image editor that integrates current image processing tools directly in your web application without the need for plugins, ActiveX or a Java VM. nexImage provides word processing tools and the integrated file manager allows image files from a pre-defined server drive to be opened for processing. The server drive access can also take place via FTP connection. nexImage also allows image files to be uploaded from an URL or a local drive.
Free to use.
http://www.neximage.com
- ClickToScan
Clicktoscan allows individuals with camera phones or digital cameras to capture, share and store information that is important, wherever they are. Images taken with the camera are simply sent by MMS or email or uploaded in the Clicktoscan server, processed and stored. Clicktoscan is based on a technology capable of producing high quality images. If you specify an email address or a fax number in your MMS or email, Clicktoscan will automatically send the scanned document to your contact. One account of 50 Mb is granted per email address, and mobile phone number. Free trial sign up.
http://www.clicktoscan.com
- vMix
Upload, publish and share your own videos. vMix supports easy upload of Quicktime (MOV), Windows Media (WMV), Audio Video Interleave (AVI), MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 video file formats (no limits to the number of videos uploaded - max size allowed 200 MB per video) as well as tagging and the ability to create your own compilations or "playlists" of your favourite vide clips. vMix is built on Flash technology and all video clips uploaded are converted into the highly portable Flash-based video format. At least for now, videos cannot be downloaded. Video clips uploaded require from thirty minutes to two hours to be approved and published. Any video author gets notified by email when a video clip goes live. Video clips can also be easily syndicated and republished on other sites. A cool new type of audio-visual slideshows are also supported by vMix. Here is one good example. vMix has been created by artists, musicians and executives from the original MP3.com. Free to use.
http://www.vmix.com/
- Bridgit
With Bridgit conferencing software, you can hold a meeting with anyone across the office or around the world, as it offers a simple and affordable way to share voice, video and data over the Internet. With just an Internet connection, you can annotate and mark-up over any application or take control of other participants’ desktops and talk to them. Bridgit also allows users to see video from up to four participant sites and has a built-in VoIP system. Bridgit conferencing software 3.0 for the Microsoft Windows operating system is available on a subscription basis starting at US$29.99 per user, per month. Try it free.
http://www2.smarttech.com/...
- Odiogo
Odiogo extracts the relevant text from web pages and convert it into a spoken word mp3 file that you can listen on any mp3 portable player. Odiogo allows to convert any RSS feed into a podcast: in other words, if a website provides a RSS feed, you can podcast it with Odiogo. Odiogo comes with more than 200 news feeds to choose from. Most popular feeds include: The New York Times, CNN, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNET News, Wired Magazine, BBC News, Washington Post, RollingStone and more. Odiogo automatically downloads updates of this list to provide you with the latest RSS feeds. No trial version offered. Odiogo costs $29.99.
http://www.odiogo.com
posted by
Robin Good
on Monday, May 29 2006
Tuesday, January 15 2008
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