Preserve and share your memories with BlueString

Content Sharing, CMS, Photo, Video April 24th, 2008

BlueString is a free online service that allows you to preserve and share your memories in a whole new way. You can store, create and share your photos, videos and music - all from one place. At BlueString, you can combine these different media to create multimedia shows to share with friends and family.

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Few things you might want to know before you get started with BlueString
Is there a storage limit per account?
Five gigabytes (GB) is the storage limit for a free account. In the future, you will be able to upgrade your account to higher storage levels.

What file formats can I upload and use?
You can upload the most common video, image, and audio file formats to BlueString. The list below should help you.

  • Video: MPG, MPEG4, AVI, FLV, WMV, MOV, 3GP, 3GP2
  • Audio: MP3
  • Image: JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG

What are the supported Web browsers?
If you’ve got any of the following Web browsers, you’ve got BlueString!

  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7.0, 6.0 or 5.5
  • Mozilla® FireFox®
  • Safari®

What are the PC system requirements?

  • Operating System: Windows® XP or VistaTM or 2003
  • RAM: 50 MB
  • Hard Disk Space: 10 MB

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Free simple content hosting solution from Oosah

Content Sharing, CMS, Photo, Video April 22nd, 2008

Oosah is a simple, easy-to-use, but feature rich “Web 2.0″ content hosting site. Oosah give you one spot on the Web where you can manage all of your digital media content - photos, videos, and music/audio files.

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Oosah has a number of features you won’t find on other Web-based content hosting sites. These include:

  1. A fully Web-based file management system that lets you create file folders, and file folder hierarchies, just like you can do on your desktop system.
  2. A desktop-like look and feel for the Oosah service, including use of standard drag-and-drop, and keyboard commands for performing Oosah operations.
  3. The ability to upload content to Oosah in almost any digital format. Oosah accepts virtually all digital photo formats, including raw, uncompressed formats from individual camera vendors, as well as standard compressed file formats (e.g., JPG/JPEG). Oosah also accepts .avi, .mpg, .wmv video formats.
  4. The ability to upload content directly from your capture device (e.g., digital camera or cell phone) to Oosah, without having to transfer it to a PC or Mac first. (Of course, you can transfer it onto a PC or Mac, and then to Oosah if you want to.)
  5. More sharing options than almost any other site, including email, RSS, linking/embedding, SMS, podcasting, and even downloading and burning to CD/DVD, and local high resolution printing of photos.

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Cool multimedia scrapbooks from Scrapblog

Content Sharing, CMS, Demo Video, Photo April 20th, 2008

Scrapblog lets everyday people mix their photos, videos, audio, text and other creative elements to create multimedia scrapbooks called scrapblogs.

Scrapbloggers can aggregate content from their computer or their favorite social media sites including YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, Yahoo! Photos, and Webshots. Scrapblogs can be shared with just a few friends or the entire world; currently Scrapblog supports direct publishing to Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and other popular social networking platforms.

Here’s what you can do with Scrapblog

  1. Grab your photos and videos from all of your favorite sites or upload them from your computer.
  2. Create your multimedia scrapblog by mixing things up with a bunch of creative elements.
  3. Share your creations with family and friends or post them directly to your favorite sites.

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Easiest way to organize and share your memories with EachDay

Content Sharing, CMS, Photo, Video April 19th, 2008

EachDay preserve and share all your memories, not just photos, in a way that is more meaningful than typical album, blog, or social sites.

Eachday was designed around this simple concept: collecting your memories in the context of passing time is infinitely more meaningful than lumping your memories into albums. And it’s not just photos. It’s about all of your memories - photos, videos, audio and text, preserved in the true format of life: The passing day.

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Here are some cool features

  1. Eachday does things that other services don’t, like looking at the date your photos were taken and automatically putting them on the days they belong.
  2. Visualize everything with Eachday’s unique Memory Stream.
  3. Organize beyond days with automated tag-based Collections, and much more.

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PicApp - add the best stock photos to your blog – for free!

Photo April 11th, 2008

PicApp is a free online service for adding high-quality stock photos to blogs and websites – without the copyright and legal headaches. Registration is free, and picapp.com members have legal access to the best and most current stock photo collections on the web. Inserting picapp.com images on your site is as easy as 1-2-3.

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Features

  1. Jack up your blog a notch with the best and most current images available - at no cost!
  2. Save time – stop wasting time looking for the perfect image in generic image search engines.
  3. Manage and store your favorite images with picapp’s easy-to-use lightboxes.

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