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Category Archives: Web tools

CuePrompter.com: Teleprompting with Web and laptop

With more and more sites getting video crazy, CuePrompter makes it easier for your budding, struggling-with-a-stand-up Web stars to talk to the camera (via eHub). You’ll need a Web connection.
For an offline version, check out Prompt, which is available for Mac and PC.
Video news lessons and resources used for this post:

Bill Myers Online
CNNfyi.com
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TwitterMail.com: Post to Twitter with e-mail; newsroomnext is heading to Hong Kong

TwitterMail turns e-mail into your Twitter command center.
But when will it allow me to e-mail posts to all of the micro-blogging services by working with HelloTxt.com?
I’m extremely/incredibly/moreandmoreadverbs happy to say I landed a Web producer job with the International Herald Tribune. I can’t wait to get to work…in Hong Kong!

Build a journalism-inspired Web application with AppJet

If any of you have some coding chops, I challenge you to create a journalism-inspired Web app with AppJet. Let me know of your creation and I’ll link to it. Here’s a note-taking program in AppJet’s list.
Services like these incline me to think that it’s not just content that will be remixed on the Web, [...]

Edgeio.com shutting down; don’t build business plans on the backs of butterflies

Edgeio, which enabled purchases for individual pieces of content at the point of interaction with the content, and which I wrote about, is shutting down.
It’s worth pointing out, though it’s perhaps obvious, that relying upon the myriad, flitting, unproven and delicate (does that capture a butterfly?) micro-monetization services is not wise. This sentence should have [...]

iDesktop.tv makes YouTube better and gives easy access to b-roll from the masses

Problem: You have a usable interview but the talking head threatens you with boredom.
Solution: Find your b-roll on YouTube using iDesktop.tv, which adds an amazing interface on top of YouTube’s content. Look in the lower left-hand corner. See that down arrow? Click on it. Then choose what format you want your b-roll in. Import to [...]

Take 2: Upload video to multiple sites and track stats for it

Vidmetrix, like TubeMogul, enables multi-site uploading for your video via one interface (via makeuseof.com).

Hey, California, next time there are wildfires, make instant news across all of your micro blog sites like tumblr. with one site, HelloTxt.com

If a disaster strikes in your city, why not go beyond Twittering like KPBS and add 8 other micro blogging services to your network of news-nugget displays? Because it takes too long to update that many sites?
Nein, non y no! Not with HelloTxt.com.
Here are the supported micro blog services:

tumblr.
twitter
jaiku
Pownce
Meemi (Italian)
frazr (French, German)
beemood
yappd
gozub (Spanish)

Once again, thanks [...]

To automate audio or not to automate audio: Listen to this robot reading Shakespeare, play with vozMe.com and suffer the slings and arrows (a 5-act drama)

Creating embeddable, audio versions of stories with Web-based software
A drama in 5 acts
1. Read Emily Chang’s mention of vozMe.
2. Play with vozMe and plug in some Shakespeare.
3. Use Emily Chang to track down a free way to host an MP3 on an external site and play it with an embeddable player.
4. Use BoomMP3 to [...]

Lifestrea.ms: Keeping track of your 1 million and counting online identities

So you’ve given up trying to maintain your own Web site, gone nuts and become a network publication. Now if only you had 1 million producers to manage all those sites or…or…Lifestrea.ms?
I don’t know if the service will perform as promised. Read/WriteWeb has some concerns, but there’s nothing like finding out for yourself, especially when [...]

CleverHippo.org: Search engine for widgets and embeddable social networking mini-applications

Clever Hippo tracks the work of software madmen churning out mini apps and widgets for your blog’s right column or your shameless profile on Facebook, MySpace, NounOrVerbHereSpaceOrBookOrFoldOrTalk…
Here are some finds after playing with a few search terms:

Search for “news“: Stay on top of the Armageddon with the Endtime News widget. Sweet! Now I can catch [...]