(via techcrunch) Omnisio wants to provide more options for us less creative types. Since most people don’t have enough time, patience or skill to record their own original content, Omnisio is giving them the tools needed to create mashups of other people’s original content. Read more
Twiddla takes home SXSW award despite sluggish performance
(via webware) Collaborative whiteboarding applications can be handy tools for small groups looking to do some brainstorming despite geographical displacement. Meet Twiddla, a free tool that lets you mark up media and live Web sites, or simply organize ideas together on a virtual whiteboard. It also tacks on live communication with text chat and free VoIP conference calling that doesn’t require additional plug-ins or software. Read more.
微软office live workspace今天脱去了邀请注册的外衣,开始进入公测阶段。大家可以到这里使用自己的live ID登录。office live workspace提供的最基本服务是在线存储各种office文档。它有一个叫作“add-in”的插件,可以装在各种office工具当中,方便在线存储文档和进入office live workspace。这个插件可以在这里下载。下面是它的操作界面图,点击看大图。
可以说,微软office live workspace与google docs只差一步了,这一步就是主要文档格式的在线编辑。google docs可以导入各种微软office文档,并进行在线编辑。
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Now Available to Everyone
(via Mashable) Microsoft Office Live Workspace, previously available by invitation only, has just announced the worldwide launch of its public beta (in English). Anyone can now sign up for the service, which allows Microsoft Office users to access and share their documents online. Read more.
Lunarr Upgrades: Write on the Back of Live Websites
(via Mashable) ……If you recall Lunarr’s service, it’s a document-sharing tool that lets you leave notes on the “back” of the page, and send it all off to other users (collaborators, if you will). This ensures that versioned, shareable documents are kept intact and accompanied everywhere with the relevant notes between users. It’s a basic concept that we often use in the tangible world for taking notes, and has been elegantly transplanted into a web-based tool. Read more.
(via IAN) YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night.
Here are some highlights of what they said:
For Content Partners/Creators
Get ready for active sharing.
Get ready for upgraded video editing tools.
TypeRoom, editing web content without any code to be seen
Typeroom is a web content management tool that allows us editing web content easily. Just type in the web’s url, and it will duplicate a web, you can insert picture and file in it and editing the text. What you change in the editing panel is what you see in the web.
Save it and ftp it to server, you get a new web content. If you’re not a webmaster, you can email it to the webmaster, or simply download the new web content.
Want to know more? See the tutorial video above.
TypeRoom Lite is simply the right tool for a certain content management scenario, and by no means is it right for every scenario. I will say though that Typeroom Lite is…dare I use the superlative… simplest CMS that is currently available.
Putting yourself in the in the shoes of a non-technical website owner who does not know what FTP is, does not know how the internet works, etc, we figured the absolute simplest thing they could to to manage their content was:
Kaltura, collaborating media in wiki ways
(via Techcrunch) Kalture calls itself a “pioneer in collaborative media” and claims that its product enables users to do with video, audio, and animation what wikis have enabled them to do with text. The company works with both both end-users and channel providers. Collaborations are largely centered at kaltura.com, but they can be embedded elsewhere on the net well. Read more.