If you're looking for an easy-to-use responsive gallery that looks great out of the box, this free plugin may be just the ticket for you.
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Robin Good: Readlists is a simple web app which allows you to easily create curated lists of web resources, articles and links and bundle them to a downloadable eBook.
"A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone." To create a "Readlist" you simply click on the Create a Readlist button and add one url at a time. The system gently grabs metadata info like title and author and elegatly lays it out in an ebook formatted reading index ready to be published. The service is free to use. Try it out now: http://readlists.com
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"Our hands-on preview of the Olympus 75mm F1.8 for Micro Four Thirds. The 75mm is Olympus' premium grade portrait lens for the joint Olympus/Panasonic mirrorless system. We've had a pre-production example in the office for a couple of days and have prepared a hands-on preview, to which we'll add a samples gallery when the promised production example arrives."
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This morning, Kylie Minogue‘s new video was just unlocked by her fans, who had been asked to generate 25,000 #KylieTimeBomb tweets in order to access her new song, “Timebomb”. They did so in less than an hour. At the campaign’s peak, it reached 10 tweets per second, making the Antipodean singer Twitter’s number one trending topic in just six minutes. Once the tweet target had been reached, the below video was revealed, and the song made available on iTunes and Spotify. No sooner was it all over, Lawrence – an independent developer via his own shop, wemakeawesomesh.it and participant in midem hack day 2012 – told us all about the making of this next-gen single launch campaign.
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Robin Good: If you are looking for a free and simple alternative to SlideShare you may want to give a look to this new free presentation sharing service which allows you to upload PowerPoint and PDF files without much hussle. Presentations can be viewed in full screen, shared on social media, tagged and categorized, and made available for download if so desired. The service looks clean, simple to use, and promising. (I needed one). Note: Just to warm-up their engine and see how it reacted, I have uploaded both a 74MB .PPT and a 2Mb one. The first one reached its end but then nothing showed up while the smaller file gave me no problems at all. Here is the uploaded presentation: http://slideonline.com/presentation/116-design-delle-informazioni-test-slides (it's a test file)
Examples of other uploaded presentations: http://slideonline.com/presentation/latest ;
Free to use.
N.B.: There is hardly any information on the site, "About", and "Learn More" links are not working, so be prudent before uploading your whole library here.
Update: As I have just learned from a timely email (who wrote me as am writing this very Scoop - without knowing it) from Julian working on the development team, the only reason is that the service is just brand new... so, just give them time... and lots of feedback. Try it out now: http://slideonline.com/ ;
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Excerpted from article: "Qwiki, the start-up known for creating automated multimedia presentations, is launching a new media format that allows publishers, bloggers, web personalities and others to create 60-second video stories that are embedded with other videos, images, maps and links. It’s like an interactive video slideshow that lets users click on other content throughout a narrated story, so they can choose how deep they want to experience the content. The service goes into private testing today with some early users and is expected to open to the public in a couple of weeks. Users can put together a Qwiki by arranging images, videos and maps and other content into six frames. Each frame can be further edited with a caption and embedded with more images, Tweets, maps and links taken from sources such as YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps and other sources including their personal content. When the media content is laid down, a user records a 60-second narration for the story with the option of appearing in a small window throughout the Qwiki. The creator decides when to advance each frame. Imbruce, Founder and CEO, said: "there are many more features to be added that could make Qwiki even more attractive to its creators and users. Right now, creators can only tell a 60-second story. But with the ability to add more content, it could really be the starting point for a bigger story. I think over time, Qwiki might be better served by allowing people the option to make videos a little longer. New online tools, such as Pinterest, are already showing us that self-expression and curation are now very popular. I think it’s logical that a simple tool for mixing video, images and online content could also attract an audience..." Read full article:
http://gigaom.com/2012/05/23/qwiki-launches-interactive-story-telling-platform-with-abc-news/ Check out it: http://www.qwiki.com
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As the thermometer consistently tops 70 degrees here in New England, it's safe to say summer is coming in. For music lovers, that means music festivals.
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Robin Good: Keemix is a web publishing service which allows anyone to create their own web magazine by easily capturing and editing content already available on the web. You can create multiple channels/topics covering different topics/interests, share items on social networks and have a personalized Keemix web site with your custom look. From the official site: "Keemix allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues. Mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively.
Keemix is tightly integrated with all major social networks and broadcasts your content through feeds or newsletters, helping you reaching like-minded individuals."
A bookmarklet makes it easy to grab any site, article, video, image or text you may run into on the web.
===> Gust MEES: By invitation only. (I got mine today) <===
More info and samples: http://keemix.com/ ; (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for discovering this)
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Giuseppe Mauriello: Learnist is a new site (still in beta) that aims to be like Pinterest but for sharing learning resources. On Learnist you can create pinboards of materials organized around a topic. You can pin images, videos, and text to your boards by using the Leanist bookmarklet, by manually entering the URL of a resource, or by uploading materials to your boards. From article by Mashable: "Grockit's latest product re-configures online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries and ebooks into ordered lesson plans. Unlike Pinterest, however, creators suggest a path in which to consume each content component. Users can check off each component as they go or “re-add” it to one of their own learnings. Grockit founder Farbood Nivi argues that expert curation helps avoid the misinformation, hacked-together how-to articles and other useless content one must weed through in a typical Google search. It also provides a clear learning path and eventually, he hopes, will include some form of assessment..." Read full article: http://j.mp/MGkVD2 Request an invite and try it here: http://learni.st
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This is an in-depth review of the Fujifilm X-Pro1.
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In the never-ending quest to keep our ear buds satisfied, Spotifyhas emerged as a leader in bringing the social graph to the music listening experience. And with the introduction of Spotify Apps in November, developers were given the option to create new and exciting ways to make that experience even better.The result? A host of great apps that will enhance how you discover music. Here are six we like.
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The Universe of Antoine d'Agata
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Robin Good: Readlists is a simple web app which allows you to easily create curated lists of web resources, articles and links and bundle them to a downloadable eBook.
"A Readlist is a group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone."
To create a "Readlist" you simply click on the Create a Readlist button and add one url at a time. The system gently grabs metadata info like title and author and elegatly lays it out in an ebook formatted reading index ready to be published.
The service is free to use.
Try it out now: http://readlists.com/
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researchers from fields as diverse as biology, psychiatry, engineering, horticulture, neuroscience, and medicine have realized what most of us know intuitively: nature is good for our health and wellbeing.
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www.gplusknight.com Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools Hangout On Air Webinar showing you how to measure social media sales and conversions hosted by Chris Lang part 1 ...
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In addition to being a great and iconoclastic photographer, Cecil Beaton was an inveterate diarist. He was also, for forty years, the premier royal photographer, having cemented his friendship with Elizabeth, The Queen Mother at his very first sitting, which was supposed to last 20 minutes but lasted 3 hours.
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Robin Good: Here's a great visualization of how different can be the traits of content re-use. In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other "thin" publishers as Google would call them.
I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content.
The table is part of an excellent presentation entitled "Link Building by Imitation" and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens.
Truthful. 9/10
http://slideonline.com/presentation/94-link-building-by-imitation
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While the percentage of adults worldwide who are thriving has largely rebounded since the global economic crisis, the percentage who are suffering has increased, documenting a lasting effect on "net wellbeing" worldwide.
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Increasing numbers of major brands are now active on Google+, the social network, with consumer engagement rates also rising. Simply Measured, the social media analytics firm, reported that 64 of the world's 100 most valuable brands, as identified by Interbrand, currently have an official presence on the Google-owned platform.
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‘If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.‘
James Nachtwey, founder member of VII Photo Agency.
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Heiko Idensen reports in his curated newsradar "Online Curating & Social Learning Tools and Applications": "Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.
The website is still in beta but looks really very promising for both teachers and students.
Here is a set of the main features that Learnist offers to its users : - It is free
- Itis easy to use
- It has a user friendly interface
- It lets users create pinboards around a certain topic
- Users can create different boards and invite others to collaborate on them
- It lets you pin images,videos, and text to your boards with a single click from Learnist bookmarklet
- Users can also upload resources to their boards using URLs
Free to use.
Try it out: http://learni.st
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As someone who wastes time looking for misplaced keys and mobile phone, I wonder what it would be like to have the opposite problem
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VentureBeatFab steps up social, dumps Google+ for PinterestGigaOM16, 2012, 5:04am PT No Comments Fab is taking social to the next level, but Google+ isn't coming along for the ride.
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