Screencasting Recorder: Upload, Share, Publish, Embed - FreeScreencast.com Is Here - Robin Good's Latest News

Screencasting Recorder: Upload, Share, Publish, Embed - FreeScreencast.com Is Here - Robin Good's Latest News

This is too good to be true! FreeScreencast is a new free web-based service that allows you to record anything taking place on your screen in a simple way. Not only. FreeScreencast takes care of uploading your recorded clip and provides you immediately with an embed code to post the screencast on your site. This is the first easy, and inexpensive screencasting tool that truly empowers online publishers to create and publish high-quality screencasts on their blog sites with the minimum effort.

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The birth of microjournalism

CyberJournalist.net

Journalists are increasingly finding new ways to use Twitter, the microblogging application, and now it’s becoming more common on the campaign trail.

YouTube Metrics

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What do YouTube's view counts and other metrics tell us about the structure and dynamics of the information hypereconomy? Thinking out loud ...

Twitter

The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse - ReadWriteWeb

For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise ever since.

free music

The Free Music Philosophy (v1.4 - June 17, 1998; v1.0 - February 1, 1994)

flash forward ...

Feb. 1, 2008 11:13am

M____,

So, I finally got the Vegas Studio installed and am in the process of creating a short movie based on the DVD you created of my footage. Most of my iTunes songs are protected and cannot be used. Do you have a free online resource for music that can be used to included in Vegas?

-S____

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Feb. 1, 2008 11:59am

S_____,

That is something I've been meaning to research further, but just haven't had the time. This looks like a good place to start. Or maybe creativecommons.org/audio.

I would be very interested to know if you come across any clearinghouses of either copyright-free music that can be freely used, or music licensed under copyleft or similar schemes, which are designed specifically to encourage cultural production by allowing creative works to be reused much more readily than under traditional copyright protection. I am looking for a collective like the one Musopen wants to be (but isn't; I just like the Beethoven quote front and center on their website). I did a search just now on copyleft music and found some promising plums, Opsound & easymusic.com. Right idea, but you'd have to poke around and see if they are any good. I'm sure there are others.

[Update: I made my first video with Creative Commons licensed music. I got the song from ccMixter (and I like the tag-cloud as a way into their database).

Let me know if you find anything you like; and since you brought it up, I'll probably investigate further if I have the time because as I said, I've been meaning to do so anyway. Also, feel free to shoot over miscellaneous Vegas questions, I won't mind.

M____

The Daily Download: ooVoo jumps into video and IM chat space | Tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors

The Daily Download: ooVoo jumps into video and IM chat space | Tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors

ooVoo jumps into video and IM chat space

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ooVoo is a free, standalone desktop chat application that has both a text and video chat capabilities. Its official launch is next week, but the beta has been available since mid April. I took it for a spin this morning and came away impressed.

There are a ton of chat clients out there, so one of the things it has done to differentiate itself is multiperson video chat. ooVoo can handle as many as six people in one video conference, which is two more than what iChat is capable of. Users can drop in and out of conversations, and the video windows will scale with a similar effect to iChat's "swoop." Along with video, users can chat among themselves with their computer's microphone or a headset. There are volume controls for both speakers and the microphone right in the chat window, a handy addition.

Users can embed this 'call me' button on their blogs or social networking profiles.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

I found the video and audio to be fairly clear, even when topped off at six users. ooVoo's creators tell me that when running full six-user video, it will take up only half the bandwidth on a low-end DSL connection. Assuming you're not downloading or uploading large files in the background, your connection shouldn't drag to a halt.

In addition to live video and text chat, ooVoo doubles as a video e-mail service. Users can send each other video messages as long as a minute in length that are available right in the app or via e-mail. Users who get the e-mail are also provided a link that takes them to a live flash version of the video, so they can access it while away from their home machine.

For people interested in adding a quick way to be reached on their social networking profile or Web site, ooVoo gives users the option to embed a quick contact button that will automatically launch an ooVoo conversation if installed. I've posted an example image of this on the left side of this post.

ooVoo is not alone in the multiperson video chat space; competitor SightSpeed also offers a free video and text chat service. The main difference is that SightSpeed is aimed at businesses and limits video chat to four users at a time with a monthly subscription fee.

ooVoo is currently available only for Windows users, although the team is releasing a beta for Macs in about six weeks. Users on both platforms will be able to chat with one another using the same client.

You can download ooVoo over at CNET's Download.com. For more shots of the service, keep reading.

Six-person video chat in action. Users can also freeze their live video feed at any time.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

The contact list is similar to what you'd get with any chat client. Right-clicking any contact will pull up a contextual menu that lets you start several types of chats with them, as well as send video messages.