From NZ book council: “Colenso BBDO was briefed by The New Zealand Book Council, to develop a piece of film that would inspire more New Zealanders to read more books.
Colenso worked with Andersen M Studios in London to develop a concept that would show Maurice Gee’s classic novel, Going West, coming to life through hand cut ‘pop up’ scenery springing up from the pages.
What resulted was eight months of hard work and intricate paper cutting to create the two minute film.”
“Magma is for exploring, discovering, collecting,
sharing, and tracking videos from everywhere.”
The Magma home page is composed of video charts for the most popular videos being watched, right now. Every video is given a score from a low of 1 to a high of 11, an indication of how popular the video has become. This is determined by the amount of related videos, views, comments and social media activity from all around the web.
Features Youtube, Vimeo, Hulu, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, TED, buzzfeed and more
The Gartner hype cycle is essentially a map of technologies over five phases that correspond with the value of a particular technology. Technologies start off with a lot of hype. As reality sets in, the hype dies down, and people end up underestimating the technology (the trough of disillusionment). Finally people start to figure out both the true value of a technology and how to use it effectively and it enters the Plateau of Productivity.
The August update has cloud computing featured on the peak of inflated expectations.
Rdio is a digital music company founded in 2009 by the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
Rdio will be a streaming music service - a subscription music site similar to Spotify - allowing users to archive their playlist and share it from a web browser and mobiles. The basic service will be free, alongside some sort of premium service. There is a blog, and you can sign up to anInvitation-Only Private Beta account.
“The race to bring the flexibility and variety of online video delivery to the comfort of your couch was taken to a whole new level in 2009 — soon, the content you want to watch will be accessible wherever and whenever you want. With that in mind, the theme of our third annual NewTeeVee Live event is TV Everywhere. Join us today here at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco as we talk to some of the industry’s key players to learn about the future of this increasingly exciting industry. Our livestream — which includes a chat feature — will start at 9 am PT, and we will be live-blogging the onstage sessions throughout the day. You can watch it on your iPhone as well. The Twitter hashtag is #ntvl. Enjoy!”
rebroadcasts are available - trend indication for live streamed TV and it looks good.
“Mobile live-streaming service Qik announced today that you can download its app for the Droid phone from the Android Marketplace, and sign up for early beta access to a high-res version of the Qik client for the Droid that can capture videos in DVD resolution (720×480).
The company says it’s the first live mobile provider to enable DVD-quality video capture. Qik has also improved its capabilities to help users create shortcuts to make sharing Qik-created videos with your contacts or social media sites faster. In the battle between the iPhone and the Droid, the Droid wins on the live-streaming front because, well, it actually streams live video. The iPhone lets you record video for uploading later.”
From newteevee
77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better
Published on the Online Education database in November, 2006. Some examples; Eat breakfast, Map your task flow, Cross-pollinate your interests, Tell stories and Multi-task through background processes.
* Effective multi-tasking allows you to bootstrap limited time to accomplish several tasks… For example, a successful freelance writer learns to manage several articles at the same time. Research the first essay, and then let the background processes of your mind takeover. Move on consciously to the second essay. While researching the second essay, the first one will often “write itself.” Be prepared to record it when it “appears” to you”
