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orb streams personal media on wifi or 3G

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:52:56 +1300

“Orb is a desktop software program that facilitates streaming of personal media over the internet. Once installed and configured, you can access your home computer’s content library from any internet-connected device. Orb for Macintosh has finally been released so Mac OS X users can now stream their media over the net, too.

One of Orb’s best features is the OrbLive iPhone application which connects with your home computer over the internet to provide access to your media library of audio, video, and photos. Through the mobile application, you can access any of your media files and play stream them over either a Wi-Fi or 3G connection. Those interested in trying out the new Mac version can grab the installer from here: orb.com/en/download_orb. “

from readwriteweb

number one

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:58:55 +1300

track by Bob Keeton

"Let’s think of the mediascape as an economy. In it, there are two kinds of goods: wine and..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:03:07 +1300

““Let’s think of the mediascape as an economy. In it, there are two kinds of goods: wine and soda. Soda is low quality communication: thin information, low-quality information, and just plain disinformation. Wine is high-quality communication: analysis, debate, and knowledge.””

- The New (New) Mediaconomy

Six Social Media Trends For 2010

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:21:11 +1300

article by david Armano

1. Social media begins to look less social

2. Corporations look to scale

3. Social business becomes serious play

4. Your company will have a social media policy (and it might actually be enforced)

5. Mobile becomes a social media lifeline

6. Sharing no longer means e-mail

freesound project

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:24:54 +1300

“The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
interact with fellow sound-artists”

The Most Advanced Collaboration Technology in the Market?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:37:03 +1300

Alex Williams of ReadWriteWeb says ProtonMedia, an animated collaboration environment, is “the most advanced collaboration environment we have seen in the market”.

Proton Media is a virtual world that includes application sharing; collaboration with 2D and 3D environments; video; 3D avatars; chat; VOIP; simulated environments and a social network that leverages the knowledge of the different users.

7 Productivity Steps to Getting Things Done

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:00:51 +1300

“DumbLittleMan” provides 7 steps to improve productivity, including

Step #3: Schedule Critical Tasks Daily
Having a goal and a plan is still not enough. Now you must schedule your critical task! Critical tasks are tasks that directly impact the achievement of your goal. If your goal is to write a book, a critical task may be to write for 2 hours a day.

Step #4: Eat that “Ugly Frog” First
The “ugly frog” represents a critical task that you are reluctant to perform. The best thing to do with an ugly frog is to eat it first.

Firefox Add-ons for Educators

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:34:31 +1300

Firefox Add-ons for Educators

Changing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) through Course Experiences

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:22:28 +1300

Changing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) through Course Experiences:

Teachersâ understanding of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge is critical in accomplishing successful technology integration in teaching. This study investigated how in-service teachersâ…

Three Future Directions of E-Learning

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:22:28 +1300

Three Future Directions of E-Learning:

article by Saul Carliner

ScreenCastsOnline

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:26 +1200

ScreenCastsOnline:

ScreenCastsOnline is a weekly video podcast of computer based video mac tutorials. The video tutorials cover many different topics from week to week but predominantly cover mac related subjects…

Information-rich and attention-poor

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:20:00 +1200

Information-rich and attention-poor:

“Knowledge is evolving from a ”stock” to a “flow”. Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something like peripheral intellectual vision…”

the hierarchy of digital distractions

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:10:50 +1200

Brilliant! Check the details at “information is beautiful”.

I would add small animals emerging from within your laptop as level 3 distraction, trumping skype calls and work related emails.

characteristics of the real-time Web

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:36:16 +1200

from readwriteweb

Unintended Consequences

The use of and overlay of real-time commentary and reaction with news and events is bound to have many useful benefits, as well as interesting and perhaps adverse side effects.

“… For those prone to theorize, there are many fascinating questions to ponder. For example, the uncertainty principles states that the position and velocity of an atomic particle becomes less certain as that of another becomes more certain. If the analogy holds true, then does the veracity or truthfulness of news become less certain as the velocity of interest becomes more measurable. Likewise, what effects will the integration of the real-time stream have on the outcome of events, and how can conditions be influenced to ensure specific outcomes…”

George Seimens article on change

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:13:32 +1200

George Seimens article on change

Cognitive control in media multitaskers

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:00:01 +1200

Cognitive control in media multitaskers:

Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition.

Snow Leopard: improvements in video and capture playback

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:21:39 +1200

“The new QuickTime X includes support for Apple’s HTTP live streaming protocol, which was released first for iPhones in June.

Using HTTP instead of traditional linear streaming technologies will allow content providers to provide more reliable and consistent video experiences - video can be streamed from normal web servers and dynamically adjusts based on network conditions.

Other video improvements in QuickTime X include a new player that allows users to capture and edit directly and then share on YouTube, MobileMe and iTunes and export to play them on iPhones and Apple TVs. And Apple promises smoother and quicker video playback of modern formats, as well as a 2.4-times faster launch, and better color reproduction.”

from newteevee

tumblr adds tag channel

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:41:44 +1200

Tumblr announced an improvement to an existing tag feature. Tagged posts automatically generate #hashtags that collect similar posts into a group. The hashtags are displayed below your post and link to a page containing other posts with the same tag.

Because there’s 650,000+ posts being published daily, Tumblr allows you to sort these by relevancy including most liked and most reblogged with a cool slider. The feature is still in development so there may be a bug or two.

Also Tumblr is working on direct integration with Facebook, where Tumblr content can be posted directly to Facebook pages and profiles.

from download squad and tumblr blog

Ten Ways To Improve Your Multimedia Production

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:17:03 +1200

from MediaStorm blog (the Medistorm site is well worth exploring for stunning multimedia guaranteed to inspire)

Don’t use dissolves between image
Avoid excessive pans and other Ken Burns-style effects.
Give your images time to breathe….

fix your music

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:08:55 +1200

TidySongs automatically scans your iTunes library for duplicates, missing cover art, and poorly formatted, misspelled, or otherwise wrong track and artist information. The application can automatically fix song info, organize genres, fix duplicates, and find missing or incorrect album art, or can just point out errors so you can fix them manually.

TidySongs works by automatically looking up a song in their online music database and downloading the correct details for each song. You can choose to fix songs one-at-a-time so you can see and edit the details before saving them or choose to fix songs automatically.