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A N I M O T O asks you for some photos, a song, and it will auto-magically create a really cool video photo show that  even analyzes the song's characteristics in order to create the specific effects. It's been around for a while, but it just recently moved out of the beta stage.  30-second clips can be created for free supporting around 12 photos, but longer videos can be purchased lasting for the duration of a given song (<10MB). You can upload your own photos, and even music, or you can choose from a selection they provide.

I'm a huge fan of Google Earth, and holographic technology. 
Google Earth Blog Post Link.

Offering a familiar (Photoshop) style editor Splashup may just lead the pack in online photo editing.  That is, if you're at all familiar with Adobe Photoshop.  Keep in mind that Splashup is no where near as comprehensive as Photoshop but you can tweak your photo's in any which way imaginable.  Enjoy.

By Chris A. Heidelberg III, Ph.D.

As Apple CEO Steve Jobs presented the new iPhone yesterday in San Francisco, I had a "eureka moment" where the impact of the iPhone has really impacted two of my favorite things higher education and entertainment. For the purposes of being contrarian I will deliberately start with the field of entertainment.

Despite the fact that there is a real fight between Apple and NBC, the iPhone and the iPod Touch have enabled television viewers to view NBC, MSNBC, and USA Networks programming for free. NBC willingly gave up $15 million dollars in iTunes revenues from Apple because they wanted variable pricing from Apple which insisted on the old $1.99 download model (Apple, 2008; NBC, 2008). Ironically, Apple has begun offering variable pricing to the movie industry now, so maybe the two companies should mend fences for the sake of consumers. For NBC, this is really a lose-lose proposition because NBC and Fox just started the HULU network online to distribute their television and cable shows online (Apple, 2008; Hulu, 2008; Fox, 2008; NBC, 2008; Newscorp, 2008).

NBC should be following the example of Newscorp owned Fox which has been shrewd in selling downloads on iTunes, streaming content on Newscorp owned MySpace, and streaming on Hulu. Fox is not going to give up double digit millions of dollars when it has the most popular social network based on users, a popular Fox site and the HULU site.

The iPhone changed the debate in favor of Apple because even iPodTouch owners can view NBC content for free rather than downloading. NBC may have created more iPhone and iPodTouch owners who can view NBC content and save money during tough economic times. The fact that many young viewers of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann are becoming very politically active and are tech savvy has benefited the Obama Campaign which has relied heavily on podcasts, blogs, YouTube and the Internet to campaign and to raise record campaign donations from ordinary Americans. The fact that the new iPhone will operate on AT&T's 3G network which will make the device a fully functional convergence device with less problems than its predecessor which operated on the notoriously slow EDGE network.

The iPhone and competing devices will make it possible for new entertainment content that can air on iTunes,

Amazon, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and the Zune Marketplace. Smaller content creators now have outlets for their program offerings, and major networks can also air programming on the third screen first and wait for programs to get popular before airing them on USA, MSNBC or NBC. The iPhone and the iPod have been critical to transforming the political process and the entertainment business from a revenue generating and a pure entertainment perspective.

However, the iPhone and the iPodTouch has already impacted the biggest entertainment business of them all: higher education. If higher education can extend the best parts of its NCAA model to the academic side, it will create a business that will rival the major networks, publishers, and music content providers. Furthermore, this organization would also be a major online player too, since most of the people from the tech world have higher edudational roots.

The iPhone has already impacted the IT departments of many universities such as Duke, Colgate, and Stanford where the voracious appetites of iPhone users have placed new pressures on their networks. Now that the iPhone is $199 and $299 and the iPodTouch works via WiFi, every university will have to brace themselves for the iPhone and iPodTouch onslaught that will be hitting universities this summer and this fall. Research indicates that iPhone users are large users of online data. Do not be surprised when many college IT departments adopt the iPhone platform and the iPhone itself now that the iPhone SDK has opened up the phone to developers who will quickly improve this device through software. This will amount to an upgraded phone every month for those who want to buy.

Finally, the most important reason that higher education will change higher education is the delivery of content. Apple delivers more digital content than anyone in the world, and the company has created a future gold mine with its free podcasts which inevitably will be branded with ads from NCAA corporate sponsors on the academic side. The day will come when Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon will all benefit from residuals of ads placed strategically within podcasts. Apple's new iTunesU has been extremely successful in its first full year of operation.

The fact that major schools such as Duke, Stanford, MIT, and others are distributing their content through iTunes speaks volumes of the future of higher education through time shifting. The distance learning industry will also be forced to changed now that students can carry their class in their pocket and retrieve their classes anytime, anyplace and anywhere. The fact that high profile schools like Duke have already bought iPods for their students and now many universities are looking to the same for the iPhone at a cheaper price on a better network with GPS and software updates makes the iPhone an irresistible device for higher education. Now, if I can really convince my colleagues in higher education on the importance of utilizing these tools and making their presentations more interactive we could help stabilize education costs.

Did you hear that sucking sound? That is the sound of big media publishers screaming when colleges begin to create their own digital publishing outlets that will enable professors to teach and publish online simultaneously.
Administrators are going to have problems with the whole tenure process since they love hiring adjuncts on the cheap! The real question becomes this: what will they do when the first academic rockstar professors are born! Even if they win the intellectual property war, which is not a given, many professors will simply jump ship and sign better deals with universities because of the new crop of intellectual property attorneys. Stay tuned because I hear a storm coming!

Now that's edutainment!

Wednesday evening was the very first meeting of the Social Media Club, LA Chapter. Held at the Rubicon Project in Santa Monica, dozens of technologists, social media enthusiasts, technophiles, and PR attendees gathered over pizza and drinks to hash out the issue of what exactly defines social media. We had a live intro from Chris Heuer who also did a Q & A afterward. The agenda of the meeting group was to come with goals unique to LA and to address a way establishing standards with the other chapters.

I recently set up a Google alert for the term social media so I can keep better tabs on the subject as it appears in current media on the web. Here's an interesting link from MediaPost out of today's batch of links:

If you're a fan of ShoZu, in addition to keeping up with the ShoZu blog, you can now follow ShoZu on Twitter (when Twitter is working!).  I'm sending out regular updates for ShoZu at: www.twitter.com/shozu.  Be one of the first to find out when new destinations are added, how famous people are using ShoZu, what new features are available, and more.

I'm looking forward to Online Market World 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on October 1-3.  Aside from speaking at the show, I'm looking forward to seeing the Keynotes - Kathy Ireland, Tony Hsieh (the CEO of Zappos.com), and Marsha Collier (Author of the eBay for Dummies series) are all speaking. It should be an interesting event.

Entre un fomat totalement fermé et l'ouverture ?! Vous choisissez quoi ? Autrement dit, entre la "nouvelle version" avec son Pack Office 2007 et OpenOffice.org, vous avez fait votre choix ?

Microsoft avec son "tout nouveau" Pack Office 2007 a fait le choix de changer radicalement de format. Reléguant ainsi les bons vieux .doc et autres .xls à la poubelle. Belle initiative ! A souligner qu'il n'est pas possible à l'heure actuelle de lire un fichier enregistré avec Word 2007 au format docx avec son bon vieux Word 2003. A la poubelle les Word 2003 et plus anciens, à la poubelle les Excel 2003 et autres ancêtres, désormais si vous voulez être IN, il vous faut le tout beau avec ses rubans bleus, le tout prêt, le tout fermé Office 2007.

Quelle aubaine pour les vendeurs ! Imagniez un peu :

Le vendeur à une petite dame venue pour trouver une solution à son problème crucial.

- Mais, non, ma petite dame, vous voyez maintenant il faut vivre avec son temps, il faut suivre la nouveauté, il vous faut absolument Word, tenez j'ai là une petite suite Office 2007, qui va répondre à tous vos soucis.

Répondrait un vendeur (portant un petit gilet marron et vert flanqué de quattre lettres...) à une petite dame qui viendrait le consulter pour comprendre pourquoi elle ne peut plus lire les lettres que lui envoye son petit fils qui est étudiant. Car dans l'histoire, il est important de savoir que le petit fils est étudiant. En effet, en tant qu'étudiant il bénéficie de la réduction et peut donc s'acheter son tout récent Pack Office spécial étudiant pour moins de 140 €. Même mieux, peut-être fait-il parti de ces établissements choisis par ySoft pour proposer un téléchargement gratuit (en contre-partie d'une inscription avec nom, adresse, email...).

 

Si je devais noter le Pack Office 2007... Je mettrais : 2/20

[J'ai déposé cet avis sur le site de la FNAC, nous allons voir s'ils sont bons joueurs...

Pourquoi Deux ?
Tout simplement parce que le Pack Office auquel Microsft nous avait habitué à été entièrement relooké. Autrement dit, attendez-vous à devoir repasser quelques heures sur la bête avant de retrouver vos habituels réflexes. D'ailleurs tous vos réflexes ont changés.
Mais comme si cela ne suffisait pas, même le format pour enregistrer vos fichiers est tout à fait nouveau. Même mieux, vous ne pourrez les lire que sur les versions 2007.
En résumé, si vous écrivez pour vous, ne lisez que pour vous c'est l'outil pour vous. Mais si vous avez tendance à envoyer vos fichiers à d'autres pour qu'ils les lisent, attendez-vous à ce qu'il y ait retour à l'envoyeur et impossibilité de lecture.
La solution ?
Les Logiciels Libres et OpenOffice.org

Télécharger
OpenOffice.org
version: 2.4.1

Essayez, cela ne vous coûtera rien et vous verrez vous serez très vite séduit.

 

Microsoft fait la promo d'Office 2007 auprès des enseignants

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Voici quelques morceaux choisis d'échanges d'Internautes, Suite à cet article parru dans ZDnet

OOXML : Microsoft ne possédait pas de service interne dédié aux standards

#3 - par collinmic - le 23/06/2008

jamais utilisé odf quelqu'un peu me donner ses avantages rapidement par rapport a ce qui se faisait avant

merci

#3.3 - par Michel Poulain - le 24/06/2008

L'avantage du ODF ? Gratuité du logiciel (OpenOffice). Pas d'incompatibilité avec les versions précédentes lors du passage d'un seul poste à la version supérieure. Support du format sur TOUTES les plateformes Mac, PC, Linux sans perte de la mise en page. Bref, qu'il y ait 1 ou 10 postes, un mélange de PC et de Mac, tout fonctionne parfaitement sans rien coûter.

Et en plus, dans 20 ans, on pourra TOUJOURS lire le format, car il est ISO et n'appartient pas à une seule boîte.

#5 - par collinmic - le 23/06/2008

merci, mais je capte pas l'utilité on utilise ca a la place de .doc ou .pdf? ou c'est encore autre chose?

#5.2 - par pépé75 - le 24/06/2008

Pour faire simple, vous pouvez créer des document ODF et les diffuser à des gens qui pourront les lire, quel que soit le système utilisé par chacun (Windows, Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS, FreeBSD, IRIX, Mac OS X), et rien qu'en utilisant des logiciels libres et gratuits. Si quelqu'un reçoit un document ODF, il peut télécharger et installer le logiciel pour le lire et le modifier, sans avoir à bourse délier.

En comparaison, les formats MS Office nécessitent pratiquement l'achat (ou le rachat de versions récentes) des logiciels Microsoft, qui sont très chers, qui ne sont pas disponibles sur toutes les plateformes, et dont les différentes versions et les rares alternatives gratuites présentent le plus souvent de gros problèmes de compatibilité.

Quant aux documents au format PDF, s'ils ne posent pas de problème pour être lus et qu'on arrive maintenant assez facilement à les créer, il faut bien souvent encore faire appel à des solutions payantes pour les éditer afin de pouvoir les modifier à coup sûr.