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Wave – e-mail for the 21st century, or something As part of my duty as the self-appointed new software guinea pig for college media, I was able to finagle an invitation to Google Wave from Andrew Spittle, one of the CoPress team (@andrewspittle on Twitter) and check out this “revolutionary” tool. There were a couple of . . . → Read More: Google Wave first impressions I come across new software that might be of use to college media outlets all the time. Most of them end up in the reinventing delicious account. Here are a few recent finds that might pique your interest: Produle: This is an online Flash-based widget builder, sort of like Sproutbuilder. Also like Sproutbuilder, . . . → Read More: New software link dump
The Adobe Creative Suite is an industry standard these days. Many newsrooms already have their hands on the software, but with the 24 hour news cycle and reporters in the field, how do you access the suite outside the newsroom? Chances are, your staff isn’t going to pay thousands to get Adobe CS on their personal laptops. There are plenty of low-priced and free browser-based tools that can serve the basic functions of Adobe CS (meaning it doesn’t matter what operating your reporters are running — as long as they have internet access). One of the thing that has always worried me about certain web 2.0 companies that I recommend is the ability of a service provider to “own” your content. This appears to be what’s going to be a major headache with sproutbuilder now that they are beginning to charge for their service. To wit: Q. Does the paid version . . . → Read More: A lesson from sproutbuilder pay-for-play scheme Image via CrunchBaseA while ago, I recommended SproutBuilder as a great way for college journalists to build interactive web apps for free. It reduced the heavy learning curve of Flash and allowed you to embed the Sprouts on your web site with minimal effort.Now, no more. From an e-mail I received this afternoon: Over the last year . . . → Read More: SproutBuilder: you are dead to me I found this handy little online software via David Cohn – Apture. Basically, it allows you to add multimedia links to a post on a weblog, or an article on a web site, via an editor that appears over the web browser screen where you have the article up. So, for instance, I’m interested in Donna the . . . → Read More: Apture: cool tool for adding multimedia Image via Wikipedia UPDATE: This post apparently still gets a lot of traffic via Google searches, so I’m posting this update to let you know that Apple restored a much easier method to extract audio and do b-roll in iMovie ‘09. So I highly recommend you upgrade if you are suffering under iMovie ‘08. For a long time, . . . → Read More: Extracting audio in iMovie ‘08 Image by haglundc via FlickrMy colleague Brian Poulter pointed me to this new service called CoolIris (formerly PicLens). Installed on your computer, it acts as a visual browser, letting you search photos and videos from around the web in a “3d” panel mode (I wish people would stop using the term “3D” to describe visual effects . . . → Read More: CoolIris: “3D” visual search I’ve raved before about the coolness that is Dipity, the online timeline creator. Today, I discovered a new feature (not sure how old it is) that adds to that coolness factor. Dipity will allow you to automatically create a timeline based on an RSS feed. Why would that be cool? Here’s just one example: I did a Google . . . → Read More: Dipity adds RSS feed importing This post also appears on the Greg Linch’s blog, The Linchpen. The question we’ve heard most often since launching the new TheMiamiHurricane.com is, “How did you do it?” Below, Webmaster Brian Schlansky offers a comprehensive explanation of the process, from setting up our own Web server to installing WordPress to importing our College Publisher archives.
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