CogBlogged from ‘April, 2008’

There is a new private beta for Toufee, one of the online video editor site listed at slot 41 on my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (the order means nothing). I’ve not had time to do much with it, but San, the guy behind the software, is offering me to share invites to 10 others who want to play with a new version. So if you want a pass, let me know. Toufee’s first version allowed me to import images from flickr, YouTube, put them on a timeline, and publish as embeddable or linked flash video. According to the blurb I have, they have rebuilt the software using Adobe’s Flex3 (dont ask me if that matters) which I believe is what runs Adobe’s own online photo editing tools. This new version of Toufee will allow publishing directly to YouTube or export as SWF, it offers a pile [...]

In the future, many of you will claim they were there for today’s Confessions of a Mashup Un-Artist presentation by Brian Lamb. You will claim you were dancing on top of the school bus, poking your head in the tv sets, grooving to the wild audio remix he concocted. How often do you hear a comment from someone in the audience that says a presentation was “transformative”? And honestly, calling what Brian put on today a “presentation” (which suggests the linear yawnfests of clicking slides) is a misjustice- it was a Performance. Art. It was a Moment. Well, I think so. I am sure a lot of folks in the audience were saying to themselves… “what the hell was THAT?” or “that was interesting, but how do I use that in the classroom?” Its good a good sign when people have strong reactions to art, good or bad– cause it [...]

Streaming Second Life into Connect by cogdogblog posted 2 Apr ’08, 9.28pm MDT PST on flickr For the NMC Symposium on Mashups we are also mashing up the venues for this online conference. Here we have a presentation by Jonathan Richter on the SaLamander Project that is taking place at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life. But we are also streaming it, or casting it, into Adobe Connect using the application sharing features. Unlike Elluminate, which does something like 4 frames a second of screen, Connect goes faster on refresh- not quite smooth, but for a presentation where not moves, it is more than okay. The tricky part is getting audio. We owe our thanks to the clever folks at LearningTimes who figured out the technique- requires a PC with a sound card that does stereo mix, to capture all the outward sounds (video, audio from SL plus the [...]