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You probably already heard about augmented reality being a trend especially in mobile media with applications displaying information about subjects while holding a mobile phone cam onto a subject around you. Such services are offered by the Layar and Wikitude mobile browsers. Furthermore there are a couple of mobile apps for the iPhone and Android system around.An up to date overview of augmented

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Hiperia3D News, an expert source on 3d technologies and virtual reality, has put together its top 10 predictions and trends for 2010. This is giving some brief but interesting insights into the scene by pointing to technology trends, other communities and an interesting view about the issue to whom the legal rights for created content in 3d communities belong.The Best For 2010 In 3D And Virtual

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EntryAds.com is an advertising system for bloggers. The service is serving text and image ads with the image ad having a width of 125 px, which is most suitable for blogs. The ad serving happens by widgets, which have to be installed on the blogs. Advertisers are able to bit for the ad space to place ads on particular sites. Payments happen by PayPal.A further introduction to the service is

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Pikk is a new news rating site, that has just launched. The service is dedicated to social new supplied by bloggers. News may be submitted at the homepage. By a supplied badge votings for an article at the site of origing is possible. Too, the service has social networking functions.

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Immersive Media has already been introduced here. The service is offering a video solution enabling online video with a 360 degree surround view. Lately the service has put some examples onto the website. The application does not require additional software and is navigable by standard web browsers. The navigation within the videos happens by moving the mouse cursor around. Here are the videos.

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Hi there. This blog has taken a break, but new posts will come up again occasionally. I start over with a 3d graphic software, which has already been mentioned in the article The next big Thing, 3D Monitors and Virtual Reality.It concerns the 3d software Blender, which is open source and free. This free software too includes game development tools, which enable to develop 3d games. Further

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The launch of Endeavour Space Shuttle will be streamed live on the web by . A special website by the NASA has been installed at SpaceVidCast.com. The live stream is enabled by the personal broadcasting service ustream.tv, where another presence is located with chat and full screen features.The NASA is most active on the internet and offering another video site at NASA TV. There occasionally live

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Lately there has been a direct post to the emediablogger Twitter account about TweetBucks, which is an affiliate network enabling Twitter users to earn affiliate commissions with their posts. Now Adweek reports that PayPerPost is preparing to offer a feature, which will enable users to earn money by tweeting. PayPerPost is a blogvertising network, that facilitates advertising at blogs by

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Do you remember the good old days of pixel advertising, just a couple of years ago, when Alex Tew made one million dollar by the MillionDollarHomepage?Now another project is placing Twitter avatars in a similar arrangement. Million Dollar Follow is working like a typical Twitter application. It is completely integrated and uses the Twitter account data to login. The site offers free advertising

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play.fm is a great new music portal to listen to original recordings of music played at music clubs. The site lists dj sets, radio shows and live recordings at clubs. There are about 12000 dj sets with electronic music and techno, jazz and reggae available. The music can be listened by a website player. The player has some outstanding features. It is able to mark particular tracks within the sets

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A different game development project has been started by BigPoint, which is an established portal for browser based games. BigPoint has launched a community for professional game developers called BigPoint DevLounge.I wonder what is the reason for this step, which has to be described as strategic. Might it be the increasing competition by game developer communities, is it a way to reduce costs or

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A new mobile game software and portal had been launched by Mo'Minis. The service offers a free software for the creation of mobile games. The software enables both laities and professionals to easily design games, which are compatible with various mobile platforms and may be shared at the homepage or directly with friends. Other services are awards and a forum. The software is available for

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The Wall Street Journal has published an interesting article about bloggers and the blogosphere, which summarizes some facts. According to the article below today there are as many professional bloggers in the US today as there are lawyers. 20 million US citizens are blogging, 1.7 million do earn some money and about a half million is financing their life by blogging.America's Newest Profession:

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A great source for music at the social web has been launched. We are Hunted is a music chart service, which is based on the popularity of music at the social web. The service measures the popularity at blogs, forums and media sharing sites.The service has a great design and enables to listen to the chart music directly from within the site by an integrated music player. There are daily and

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One may describe BloggersBase is a new blogging or a writers community. It is a blog hosting service and citizen journalism site at the same time, but it has a strong focus on journalism. The blogs are rather the medium and used for the technical realization.It is a site with a very modern touch, that integrates various social networking means for both authors and readers. Authors have their own

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VodPod is something like an all in one video site, not all but a lot. At first it is a video sharing site with an up to date video search engine. The search enables to search for videos at the web, the site itself and displays shared videos in realtime. Other ways to discover videos are by popularity, genres and tagging.To members some further tools and services are available. People may create

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SiteRapture is new social rating service for web applications and websites. They have released a new category with a list of social media websites. The list is designed like a catalogue, which enables to search for various kind of social networking sites.

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Gawkk is a well designed new microblogging service dedicated to video sharing with some great social networking features.What makes the service really convenient is the player, which appears by a click on the title of a post. If done, a video player comes up just below the post and ready for viewing. At second a lot of social networking features are included. Below the posts, which are of typical

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Klout is a service, that describes itself as personal analytics. By this tool one may measure its influence on the internet or the social web. Especially this might be interesting for bloggers and others, that are active in the semi professional environment of the social web with its business opportunities for everyone. By taking it serious one is able to analyze its own strengthes and to

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BlogCatalog, a blogger community, has introduced a statistic tool suite for weblogs. The suite has the full functionality of up to date statistic tools, easy installation, real time data, tracking of visitors and traffic sources. There is a further point that might be of special interest. The statistic tool, too, is able to track Feedburner and Twitter subscribers.

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A new video search engine had been started by Truveo, which is a video search engine itself. The new service, which has some interesting and unique features, is called ejeboo.At first there is the interface of a visual search engine displaying the search results by movable thumbnail images. It becomes more interesting by the advanced search options. There are two remarkable search options, a

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1Cast is a further service changing the experience of television at the internet by supplying a new kind of video interface. 1Cast is an aggregator of news, which gets the content by partnerships with international news tv stations. It is both available at the web and by the mobile internet.Whereas still in beta there is already an online interface available here. There are online streams and on

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I came across an article about paid blogging, which reports about growth for this segment of blogvertising. This information is based on research and an interview with the CEO of Izea, the parent company of SocialSpark and the PayPerPost.com, who expects "high double-digit growth".Paid Blogging Outlives the Fad PhaseThere is a further blogvertising network mentioned at this article, which has not

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An online video cutter for YouTube videos is provided by Splicd. This tool enables to cut out sequences of a video. Additionally a shortened link is supplied and a code to embed just the snippets.I have not found an introduction at the page, but there is a simple and intuitive interface. One just has to copy the link of a video into the form and to name the starting and ending points of the

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ffwd is a video destination with a lot of social networking features. Members may personalize and create own channels, search and share videos as well as getting recommendations. ffwd now has launched a new service called twitmatic. twitmatic is displaying up to date videos shared at Twitter and playing the videos within the site.Actually the service is in beta and for sure there will come up

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Here is another 3d video project. It is called WOWvx, wihich is an activity by Philips Electronics. The project is already available at the internet with an own video sharing community, forum and even a 3d video player software. WOWvx itself is a 3d screen project based on stereoscopy. The WOWvx Player, which is available for free download, is supporting this technology in general, the

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Chat to Text is another application, that enables the connection of websites and mobile phones by text messaging. Opposed to the former introduced chat widgets it is not a tool for visual chat at a website, where mobile users may participate. Chat to Text is supplying a button, which may become installed at a website and which enables everyone to connect with the site or site owner by a click on

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The live video streaming site ustream.tv has launched a premium version suitable for more professional purposes. The new service is called Watershed and has a lot to offer. At all it is easy to implement and customizable like a typical white label solution. There is even an integrated chat, which seems not be available at the free version. It is a proven technology and the prices are affordable,

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The change concerns how posts are streamed to Twitter and the frequency of posts at the emediablogger blog as well as the german audience (now there exists a german version, too.). Others of course are invited, too.There have been less posts here, because I started two blogs with similar content at my main project FOLDEN.INFO and wanted to avoid duplicate content at the emediablogger Twitter

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TechCrunch had a coverage of the Microsoft TechFest, where a technology most similar to the covered Photosynth service has been introduced. Photosynth combines several photos to one zoomable 3d image. So the new application, which is still a research project with no particular name, is doing the same for video by combining several video streams to a panorama video. This all happens while sending

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YouTube has made a further step to give more interactivity to videos. An enhancement has been made to the Video Annotations feature, which has been covered here. Video Annotations do enable a video producer to add comments and further information like texts to a video. Now people may open up this feature to collaborate with others or enable other people to add annotations to an own video. This

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Webby Chat is an easy to install chat for blogs and websites. The chat window simply becomes installed by a code snippet and may be used at websites or blogs. To be installed at blogs a widget code is offered. A nice feature is the possibility to hide the sidebar. By this the chat has no need for additional space within a site.The service is a work in progress. Whereas it is fully functionable,

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CastTV is a video search engine with some great and unique features. The search results are clustered by video related issues. Exemplarily the content is distinguished by full length shows or short videos, free or premium content, user generated content or professionally produced videos.And the term tv in Cast TV is suitable indeed. The first tab of the menu is dedicated to tv content and by

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99widgets is offering several useful web apps to become installed at social network sites, blogs and elsewhere.At first there is 99chats, another widget for chat and live communications within social networks.For those who want to know more about their users or to make some research there is 99polls. This app is available in various languages. Members may create own polls or share interesting

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Bidvertiser, a pay per click advertising network, has added feed advertising to its service and joins the rather rare spreaded other feed advertising services. Too, Bidvertiser is offering an affiliate program, which pays for referred advertisers and publishers.

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CNet has published a most interesting article about a tool to transform 3d games into 2d games, which probably will have a major impact on gaming and which merges the web with mmog games.It is really revolutionary, which already shows the fact that there never has been developed a game for these two different platforms. But the successions are even better. This enables to interact by using the

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I am actually digging through some older resources and sometimes I do find something remarkable. Sometimes this makes me wonder as I am permanently looking for good services. In this case I found a large and very active podcast directory with thousands of podcasts, which is frequently adding new podcasts. The directory I had never heard about before is Podcast Zoom. There is a well assorted

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RSS Hugger is a community for blog readers and bloggers. It is all about blogging. The community is a platform for readers to connect with bloggers and for bloggers to network. Bloggers may install a profile page at RSS Hugger. There are a couple of useful functions supplied to all parties like a blog toplists and a blog directory. Actually there are 3678 feeds listed.

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Cnet's Webware did a test of hd video services at the internet, which has started to become a common standard at the internet. Nice to know, today the internet with its 1 billion netizens is the largest unique hd platform, no other platform can compete with this reach.The Webware test compared six internet video services with hd quality. Part of the comparison has been image quality of still and

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This service looks a bit strange to savvy internet users. Honeyshed is something like shopping tv brought to the internet. It is rather pure tv and nearly without interactivity and tools for sharing. To buy the featured products one needs to become a member.

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evenhere is offering a complete interactive video solution for commercial usage. Whereas other solutions have not been analyzed regarding the readiness for commercial use, it seems that evenhere has something unique to offer. Beside a content management system the solution has a product management modul. By this modul retailers are able to choose products from a database to become shown within a

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Innovid, a provider of an interactive clickable video solution, has put a demo video on its website that deserves applause. One may even describe it as an art piece. They have integrated a couple of possible features, even a playable ping pong video game and clickable rss feeds. Everything happens within a living room. By two tabs at the left and at the right one may change the scene and various

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The file hosting service Uploading.com offers free hosting and an affiliate program that pays for free downloads and file sharing. The amount paid is up to 2 Cents per download (usually 1Cent), which means up to 20 Dollars for 1000 free downloads.That may sound strange, but it makes sense. Hosting and internet traffic prices have become more affordable and 1 Cent per download looks like a minimal

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There have been a couple of articles about 3d screens and technologies at this blog beside virtual reality issues. Some have been about new graphic programs using algorithms to make 3d a reality and others about manufacturers offering 3d ready screens and even tv sets.Today I read an article reporting about new products introduced at the CES. These products are tv sets using a technology that

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As announced here comes the news section of FOLDEN.INFO. I realized it by using Google Gadgets. You may share the news by using the customizable gadget on a blog, website or within your Google account. Just click on the Google button and you will become relocated to a page with further information. Elsewise you may have a look or fetch it from within the website. Sorry, but you browser does not

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Business Thursday: I set up a Google Friend Connect community at an associated website, which can be visited here and like to share some experiences. Probably you have already heard about Google Friend Connect and others aggregated social networking services, which do enable social networking features at third party websites like aggregated access to these social networking features to users and

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PeopleBrowsr is a comfortable new social network aggregator and twitter client. The online service enables to follow friends at various networks and to make posts from within the webapp. What makes it a comfortable tool is the ability to arrange groups of people or interests within customizable seperate windows and across various networks. By this one may arrange particular windows for particular

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Lookery is an interesting service with an interesting business model. The service is offering web analytics and audience analytics to publishers for free. These stats include relevant keywords and demographic data. The data becomes available by aggregated data of web usage and visits to third party sites, where anonymized registration data is shared. If the website of a publisher has a login area

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Business Thursday: Texts of course are an essential element of the family of content. Especially in the online world there are various purposes for texts. Exemplary there is text as content itself or texts optimized to improve the appearance and ranking at search engines.Contentworld is an online marketplace for texts. The service matches authors with buyers of text content. People may upload

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This second post today about social search is dedicated to Artiklz, which has just has come out of private beta and which is now available to everyone. Artiklz is both, a social web search engine to find issues on the social web and a social media search engine offering personalization. There are member areas for readers and publishers. To readers there are aggregation functions to access

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WhosTalkin.com is a new search engine targeting content at the social web. It works with a proprietary technology and connects to various important social media gateways, where the search engine is looking for conversations. One may see the connected services by doing a test query. The services are listed at the left within a menu. The search engine is suitable for personal and professional

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Yahoo has made other announcement about the use of its widget platform to be used for interactive tv. This time cooperation with Samsung has been communicated. Formerly in August a cooperation with Intel was announced. The cooperation with Samsung has a clear time table and first tv sets equipped with the yahoo widget engine will already be available within 2009. So one may already talk about a

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Bambuser provides an application for live broadcasting. The service enables to broadcast by digital cams, webcams and from equipped smartphones. Mobile broadcasts may happen by connection to GSM Networks or Wifi. If there is only a slow connections available, the quality of a stream may become adjusted by the image size. Further features are sharing of archived videos and a chat function within

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TweeTree is a nice new Twitter web interface, which integrates a couple of other social media services. The integration happens by displaying the content a link within a message is referring to. If a link refers to one of the integrated services, the linked message will be displayed. For example if someone links an image on Flickr or a video on YouTube, these media will be displayed within the

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Here again is an article about successful business with user generated content. It is about video business at YouTube, where some people are earning a reasonable income.YouTube Riches

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A live monitoring tool for posts at the LiveJournal blogging and social media community has become introduced. The tool is called Aqua and has a cool flowing interface. The service is both a surf board and research tool. For professional research at the help section there are instructions available to set filters and the like.

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iWidgets is offering several kinds of widget services, that suits the needs of small as well as established publishers. The solution enables to distribute existing content across the social web and the sharing of content to increase the reach of content suppliers by viral marketing effects. To make a widget there is an easy to use wizard available, which allows to create widgets by drag and drop.

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This is great stuff. Shorty is a software application, which enables to use the own domain name for url abbreviation. One needs to have some technical skills as the software needs to be installed on a server. If the software is installed, the own domain name can be used for url abbreviation.The tool is even comfortable by offering several ways to create abbreviations. This may either happen by

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I became aware of some nice and new video sites, which are both great to view videos and for business.At first there is Openfilm, a site dedicated to short films. It is an open place, where everyone can become a member for the purpose of watching videos, reviews or to connect with others to discuss or to do business. But as Openfilm wants to be a place for films of high quality, the content and

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Business Thursday: There have been launched a couple of new and useful services for improved and professional blogging, that have not been mentioned for now.At first there is Bloggapedia. It is a new launched blog directory and community with a couple of interesting features. At all it is a directory, where bloggers may submit their blogs. Additionally members are able to rate blogs Both members

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Grouptivity is a content sharing tool for information sharing with monetization opportunity to publishers. The tool works with plugins both for information sharing and to enable the process. Once the tool has become implemented into a blog or a website visitors are enabled to share the content and to start co browsing and sharing the content. This leads to a viral effect by spreading the content

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Another provider of a webbased microblogging solution has entered the market. This is Yonkly. It is a white label solution enabling personalization. Further features are an image viewer and a search engine. There are only premium accounts available at Yonkly.By 400 % growth of Twitter the market seems to be attractive to new participants. There is already a broad range of solutions available.

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A new study about social networking has been released by Netpop Research. The results of this study do confirm a strong trend to social networking as the already mentioned study by Forrester Research does. There are some more findings in this study especially about shopping. The results do refer on on time spending. It has been found that there is less time with online entertainment and shopping

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Spool.fm is an online music player and playlist editor with a great feature for music lovers to listen to playlists of songs synchronously. To find tracks there is a search engine. Editing playlists is facilitated to everyone, non members and of course to members. To members there is the unique feature to create playlists, that may become listened synchronously by sharing links. Editing playlists

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Qoof has an interesting offer to both, publishers and retailers. The service enables to publish videos at social networks by widgets. The customizable widgets do carry promotional videos as well as commerce facilities. To publishers this works like usual affiliate programs, which means that earnings are generated by referral fees. There are even solutions for parked domains.To retailers it is a

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With Ciao there is another social shopping service available, which pays for reviews. It is a comparison shopping site, that offers product reviews and recommendations by members and price comparisons. The site is free to join and offers a lot of features. Beside comparisons and recommendations there are product lists and video reviews by members.I know Ciao for long. It has been one of the first

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Business Thursday: Twitter is the fastest growing social network as reported in September. Figures in September have been 400 % growth rate. Meanwhile I read that about 6 million users have been reached and found an interesting article lately about upcoming features and strategies to monetize the service. Advertising will not be an issue told Evan Williams, one of the founders. Monetization

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TubePrize has created a platform to connect video creators with promoters for video advertising by product placement and the like. The service allows everyone to create a video contest and by this to promote a product. The service relies on YouTube and the winner will be the one who generated most views based on YouTube statistics. The latter might be just an example as contest creators are free

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The just launched Krumlr social bookmarking community combines a couple of most successful features of todays popular social networking services. Integrated tools are microblogging, lifestreaming and news ratings.For social bookmarking there is tagging of course. Tags or clouds are called a 'krum'. Further available tools are a browser bar plugin and an iPhone mobile version. For more visit the

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Floobs is a new and promising live video service. The service is still in beta with some features already available and some in preparation. Floobs surprises with some features that have not been found elsewhere. At first this is an integrated VJ tool, which enables to mix live streams with other videos. This might be most useful for presentations and of course music shows.According to the FAQ

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Overlay.tv has added a couple of new interactive video features since it has been covered by the very first post at this blog about interactive video. Also the website has been completely redesigned. As far as I remember the site has been dark and it has been turned into a bright one now. Furthermore videos produced by members now are in the center of the page instead of being placed at the

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MUZU is an internet music tv site and a vertical video sharing portal for music related content. It is a site for music lovers, artists and labels. The service enables everyone to start an internet music tv channel. Topics may range from artist features and interviews to gigs and music videos. Videos may become shared and embedded at third party sites.There are even more features for artists and

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Come2Play is an online social gaming platform with some amazing opportunities. It is a platform with free multiplayer flash games to share and to embed at social networks and websites. This is already a great opportunity for gamers and to enrich sites. But by offering a couple of business opportunities Come2Play is much more.There are business opportunities for publishers and developers available

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Business Thursday: Today a big part of doing business at the internet is about new contacts at the social web. A proven way to get in contact with prospects is by distributing useful information. Depending upon the business this may happen at general social networks and for b2b at particular business networking sites. For business networking some services have specialized explicitely in enabling

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This seems to be the first service that is offering a vertical search engine dedicated to product reviews. The service is called OpThink and it lists nothing else than reviews and user opinions about electronic products. Further verticals are planned.

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In a press release 5min, a video sharing site for how to and instructional videos, has informed that they now are reaching 110 million monthly unique users. This vast number is facilitated by a network of syndication partner sites, which may syndicate content by a proprietary content syndication platform, the VideoSeed platform. The content in indexed with semantic data to assure most relevant

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Here is another insight into user generated advertising. This is related to Wildptich.tv, which has been covered already here by this article. By a press release there is given some insight about the way business customers may assign artists at the Wildpitch.tv platform. At a cooperative press release by Wildpitch.tv and its business partner Kimochis it is reported how a creative has been

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Guest Article by Mobi33The Power of ConvergenceOver the past year, a tremendous amount of buzz has been generated by the convergence of digital signage and mobile marketing. Advertising agencies and ad networks want to know what convergence means for the future of their enterprises. This article will clear up some of the myths surrounding the buzz and show you how to prepare for the future of

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VoiceThread is an interesting multimedia presentation and Video application with some unique features. The presentation may include mostly all kind of media. The key feature of VoiceThread is the the interactivity of presentations. Visitors are able to add comments beside or within a presentation like it happens at some interactive video applications. The comments may become added by text, audio

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Business Thursday: Citizen entrepreneurship is a characteristic of social media. People may participate in business by a couple of means like widgets or even running own social media communities and Video is a feature with an own appeal.Boostcast is a web based service, that enables everyone to run an own video sharing community even at an own domain. This service is customizable to give a unique

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Tomorrow the award ceremony of The BOBs happens, a blog award. There are some great features added to the award ceremony. The ceremony will be streamed live at the internet and accompanied by live blogging realized by using the Cover it Live application, which has been covered here. That is great at all, but the best thing is that everyone may put the live video and blogging streams onto an own

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AppAppeal is another directory for webbased applications like the already mentioned Go2Web20.net and Simple Spark. AppAppeal is an edited directory that looks for up to date webbased applications. Issues they mention for their choice of apps are easy use and registration processes. By this one may expect a quality choice of apps at AppAppeal without risks to join.

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Glue seems to me one of the first true semantic web applications. It is a social networking and social shopping hybrid. The Glue application is a browser bar, that connects to friends and others like a co browsing application. Opposite to most other co browsing applications Glue connects and interacts with particular web pages, which have enabled the Glue experience. Whereas there is no

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Tusavvy is further social search engine and again a social search engine with a different approach. The Tusavvy index is in part based on the social web and how people have linked websites and other data. The index ranks pages by popularity and other factors, where relevance and groups of interests are most important. By doing this the search engine aims to provide information important to niche

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OneRiot is a new search engine, that has just been launched on 11th November and that claims to have 2 million members already. OneRiot is a search engine, that indexes the web. But the search results are based on a proprietary popularity ranking called the Pulse. The ranking of the search results is based on up to date popularity giving the results an aspect of a the live web search engine like

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HubSpot is a webbased internet marketing suite. The service supplies some interesting social media marketing information at marketing ressources. There white papers and webinars beside others. HubSpot hosts live webinars and makes archived versions available. Especially at marketing tips and webinars there are a couple of interesting social media marketing papers and presentations. The following

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Invision is the next service in the range of the upcoming new web interfaces for tv and video. Invision.tv is describing themselve as a guide for internet tv and video. They got a lot to offer, full episodes and videos, and to find further stuff there is a video search engine. The content reaches from internet video to established tv channels. The site is easy to navigate and there is a broad

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Business Thursday: The mobile market is one of the most promising growth markets and now might be the right time to start a business to participate or to establish a mobile channel. There are some business opportunities that are most similar to the web and some that are unique. The most similar business opportunity to the web is to monetize mobile pages by advertising. Another opportunity is to

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Here are some interesting internet video and video business trends in addition to the post emedia trends, where it has been mentioned that internet video becomes narrative elements.At first there is a article confirming that internet video becomes favored to the disadvantage of tv viewing.Web Video Chips Away at TVThe conclusion is a need for new content and at least this will be in part user

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Taboola is a video discovery and recommendation solution. The system analyses video content and matches it with the user behavior. To publishers Taboola is offering the video discovery platform called ViDiscovery. It is a customizable video recommendation solution to engage viewers and to increase the retention at a website by a personalized video experience. The business opportunity consists of

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Adobe has launched a public beta platform for the development of rich media applications aka widgets. The platform is called Cocomo. Cocomo is a PaaS, which means that both the development tools and the application hosting is managed by Adobe. There are already a lot of cool features available like voip, collaboration and file sharing.

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Junta42 is a content marketing portal offering an article rating service for content marketing and content publishing articles. They now have launched a new rating service for content marketing blogs. The ranking service is scoring blogs and offers widgets for every blog just beside the rankings.There are a lot of useful tools and business opportunities at Junta42. Right at the homepage there is

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A new co browsing application has been launched. The service is called Plista. As the other covered co browsing applications the tool enables to share interesting sources and to leave comments at third party websites. And there are a couple of further things this application can do. Plista makes recommendations in several ways. There are suggestions and a menu to navigate as well as matching with

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PostRank is newsfeed filter that enables to find the most popular and the most related information. The application automates two important tasks, looking for popular feeds and personalization to find related news. For both tasks there is a buzz filter to find the most engaging content at the socialsphere. PostRank is doing this by analysing social media sources like posts about an issue and

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YouTube will host a live event on 22th November. There is a big announcement at YouTube Live. It will be a major global event with all kind of artists, big stars and independents, comedians and scientists. The event celebrates all participants of the site and will be streamed from San Francisco. Find further information at the YouTube Live site.

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Vector Art is using vector graphics for art. It is a kind of computer graphics and as usual one may do many things using a computer program. But generally I would describe vector art as a way to make illustrations and of course electronic images. There is a new online gallery and artist community dedicated to vector art managed and founded by two artists, Jared Nickerson and Brad Mahaffey. By

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The approach of Spot.us to journalism is a hybrid of citizen journalism and conventional reporting. Spot.us is calling it 'community funded reporting'. The way this is done happens by several steps. The initial step is to suggest a story. Then people become matched with journalists, if someone is interested in the subject and pitches it. Now people may fund the story by donating money. The rights

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Ajax has changed the way websites are created and navigated. Motive Interactive is bringing this great experience to media planning. The innovative interface is called Advent 2.0. It is available to advertisers as well as to publishers. Both parties now can control the performance using a most comfortable interface. There are a couple of presentations available at the homepage. The Motive

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TrueThinker enhances social networking with artificial intelligence. It is a knowledge management and networking tool for information gathering, storing and sharing. The webbased service offers a personalizable interface that is based on ajax. Artificial intelligence is used to assort the information and for search. Members are able to create public and private groups. The service is fee based

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With Radus another service has launched offering a new kind of interface to experience and surf the web. It is a social network aggregator at the same time offering access to various social media networks including facilities to post from within the web application. Radus describes itself as a media hub and content discovery tool. This is a main feature of the homepage with up to date news and a

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