Web Wednesdays – March 30, 2011
Posted on Mar 30, 2011 by Anne Lopez in IT, News, Web Wednesdays
Web Wednesdays – Wednesdays we will feature websites that we’ve come across while in our process of searching for inspiration, the latest trends, or learning about anything and everything we can get our hands on that interests us.
Are you looking to be the next big director? Well look no further. Xtranormal is where you can go to create your own mini-movie with funny avatars and voices. All you have to do is create a script and you’re good to go.
Xtranormal.com is a web-site powered by Xtranormal’s text-to-movie™ platform—a web-based application used to create short 3D animated movies from simple text-based movie-scripts.
The characters in the movie speak the dialogue in the script, and react to performance triggers—icons that are dropped directly into the script, just like smileys in IM/chat.
Movies can be shared through e-mail, blogs and online video sharing and social networking sites such as YouTube™, MySpace™ and Facebook™.
The best part is, it is free to sign up. Like they say, “If you can type, you can make movies.”
Facebook Live – A Live Video Channel For Facebook
Posted on Aug 14, 2010 by Dennis Driscoll in IT, News, Social Media
Facebook officially launches a live video channel called Facebook Live. The platform has already been used by many user, but now Facebook is planning to utilize it primarely as a window into Facebook progress, news, upcoming features and changes.
Facebook Live, just like the other video platforms, offers commenting, a live feed and video embedding. My questions is, will Facebook Live try to compete with online video services like YouTube and Vimeo?
White House and Social Media
Posted on May 17, 2010 by Peter Ellis in Advertising, Social Media
I was doing research on current social media usage trends. Many will say that every business should use social networking (after all its a free tool). The questions is, can any business adopt social networking practices that will return on their investment? In my humble opinion, the answer is simple – it depends on the business. It’s different for everyone.
I was browsing around the internet to find out what type of business utilize social media and networking for their business benefit. News stations – yes, of course, they bring the news, social media is just another medium to deliver it. How about your local mechanic? Tweet, tweet, “Your car is ready!”, tweet, tweet, clank, clank, “You need a new muffler.” I am not sure that this will work. What if the owner of the car is not following them on Twitter, OOPS!
This is when I stumbled on an article from the White House’s official blog about Haiti’s relief. Click, click, scroll, scroll and I come to find out that this administration is the first one in history to utilize so many social media networks:
- Blog
- Flickr
- MySpace
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- iTunes
This is a huge list. More networks that I belong to. More networks that some social networking gurus belong to. I guess this administration is doing something right (no politics intended)!
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