Photobucket + Online Adobe Video Editing Tool

The sharing is in the mixing

In the past YouTube has been accused of being a “fake sharing” site as it doesn’t provide the tools to remix video.

A “true sharing” site doesn’t try to exercise ultimate control over the content it serves. It permits, in other words, content to move as users choose. - Lawrence Lessig

In February 2007 Adobe launched online editing tools with Photobucket - Tim O’Reilly blogss about it:

I love that in addition to “slide shows,” “order prints”, and “share album,” photobucket now will add “Remix video.” Remixability is a huge part of Web 2.0, and the ability to modify video as well as just to consume it is a huge part of bringing video into the mainstream of Web 2.0.

The functionality is pretty basic. Both Photobucket and Adobe are reaching out to the millions of users for whom even Premiere Elements or iMovie are too much. And they may well be right (though I hope to see more of the amazing features of Flash video, like layers and more complex soundtracks, added in future.) In our conversation, Alex Welch, the CEO of Photobucket, talked about the hunger that their users have for online editing tools.

…There will be no advertising introduced into the created video stream. He pointed out that users are far more engaged when creating and managing content than when just viewing it (as anyone who reads Kathy Sierra knows!) “Advertisers are looking for more than just standard IAB units,” he says. Here there will obviously be a huge opportunity for advertisers to offer branded video libraries as components for remixing. The host site sets the policies about how the video is branded and monetized.

Hats off to Geoff Baum and Lalit Balchandani, the creators of the product.

This is a huge step forward in the democratization of media on the web.

What Photobucket has to say about the Adobe mashup:

Once editing is complete, the resulting video mashup can be embedded into any web page, blog, or social network profile by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML code. The mashup can also be shared with family and friends using Photobucket’s built-in sharing tools. Photobucket recently launched features to enable quick and easy posting to blog services and social networks such as Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal, MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook directly from within a Photobucket album.

About Photobucket
Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. Photobucket is the web’s most popular creative hub, linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger, Xanga and others. Photobucket’s more than 35 million users upload more than 7 million personal photos, graphics and videos to Photobucket every day, and the site is growing at a rate of 85,000 new users a day. Photobucket currently serves over 70% of all content links to social networking web sites and serves over 3 billion images and video requests every day. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at www.photobucket.com

Myspace and Photobucket:

MySpace launches Photobucket integration into the MySpace Comments Editor – December 20, 2007

MySpace today launched a really useful Photobucket integration into their ever-popular Comments Editor on MySpace.com.

Here’s how it works:

* Login to your MySpace profile and go post a comment on a friends profile.
* In the comments editor, click on “Add Image from Photobucket”, and you can log directly into your Photobucket album — all without leaving MySpace.
* Browse your Photobucket album to find the image you want to post; click on the one you like and click the “Add image to comment” button.
* All without leaving MySpace!

Facebook and Photobucket:

Facebook® Enables Users to Share Video, Photos, News, Blogs and More From Anywhere on the Web – October 31, 2006

Photobucket is an online personal media hub for photos, videos and graphics. Photobucket’s 27 million users can now share their Photobucket images and videos on Facebook with just one click of the link to share on Facebook.

YouTube &…

What other platforms are there for showing digital stories on the web?
The beginnings of a list – descriptions taken from the websites “about” section.

blip.tv: The world is changing as it becomes easier for people to produce great content. We focus on shows — the kind of stuff you might find on television but don’t.
“The CEO of Blip.TV said that she thought it was important to preserve independence for producers of content because that was a characteristic that attracted people to the content in the first place.” – Rader O’Reilly

vimeo: Use Vimeo to exchange videos with only the people you want to. We have a bunch of different privacy options so you can choose exactly who can see your videos, and others can do the same. When you join Vimeo, this page becomes your homepage and will fill up with your videos (and the videos you love). Vimeo has been around since the last days of 2004.We currently have over 7 billion users who have uploaded over 950 trillion videos.

Break.com: Break is the premier online entertainment destination for guys with over 18,000,000 unique viewers and 500,000,000 page impressions per month (Nielsen Site Audit). Men 15-35 come to Break to enjoy the best content online, helping show over 12,000,000 videos and 5,000,000 pictures daily. Break is more than a website – we are a cutting edge community for guys and the content they like, content made by our viewers for our viewers. We know what guys want to see because we want to see it, too.

Jumpcut: The easiest way to upload, edit, and share your video and photos. Free.
If creating a video and publishing it to the web seems like a challenge, we think you’ll find that Jumpcut makes it easy and fun. If you’ve been wondering what to do with the video you shoot with your snazzy new camera (or your phone), Jumpcut is the perfect place for you to be creative. If video isn’t your thing just yet and you just want to make cool slideshows with your pictures, Jumpcut is still the best place.
Finally, a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose. There’s nothing else like it.
Remixing is another feature unique to Jumpcut. Basically, Remixing is creating your own version of someone else’s movie, usually incorporating elements from the original, and adding more content or maybe just some of your own style and spicy goodness.
Whether you’re familiar with other video editing tools or not, you’ll find Jumpcut’s online editor very easy to use and full of all the features you need.

Viddyou: is simultaneously private diary and public confessional. Snapshots of life captured in streaming, digital frames of video that tell the stories of who we are, how we think, and how we live while tickling the voyeurs inside all of us. Share the silly moments, the proud moments, and the heartfelt stories by capturing them in your own free video blog.
Viddyou is the best way to share your personal videos with friends on Facebook. We make it really easy to add video from your webcam, digital camera, computer hard drive or you can even send it directly from your phone and the video will automatically be added to your Facebook.

Metacafe

Revver

iFilm

Soapbox

Heavy: Heavy.com is one of the web’s leading consumer video companies and the leader for 18-34 year old males, which is a key demographic for marketers and advertisers. Heavy combines its own unique original programming with those of its users to create an environment where you can control and even participate in your own personal video experience.

Machinima

“Alex Chan simply wanted to make a political statement, countering what he deemed inaccurate coverage of the riots in French suburbs. Instead, the industrial designer created an emblem for a hot new form of entertainment. Working on his laptop with software from a $70 video game — a technique called machinima — Chan made a rudimentary but powerful 12-minute animated film about racism, The French Democracy, that is winning applause worldwide. “What I love is how neatly it blends the culture of games with the aesthetics of film,” says Clive Thompson, a journalist in New York who has written about machinima and runs a well-known blog on technology and culture.”

via BusinessWeek

Data Visualisation

How can relationship data be mapped: what is the best method for describing the “family tree” of Digital Storytelling in Wales?

1. Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player.

Reconstructing Artifacts

“The invisible enemy should not exist by Michael Rakowitz unfolds as an intricate narrative about artifacts stolen from the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, in the aftermath of the US invasion of April 2003; the current status of their whereabouts; and the series of events surrounding the invasion, the plundering and related protagonists. The centerpiece of the project is an ongoing series of sculptures that represent an attempt to reconstruct the looted archeological artifacts.

Reconstructions of the artifacts are made from the packaging of Middle Eastern foodstuffs and local Arabic newspapers, moments of cultural visibility found in cities across the US. This exhibition extends a commitment to recuperate the 7,000+ objects whose whereabouts remain unknown.”

see 2007 Istanbul Biennial

Living in the dark

The Thought Project

The Thought Project by Simon Hogsberg

Over a period of 3 months I stopped 150 strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking about the second before I stopped them. Using a mic and a dictaphone I recorded what they told me, then took a picture of them.

Exhibiting in Second Life

D&AD exhibition in Second Life

“D&AD is an educational charity that represents the global creative, design and advertising communities. Since 1962, D&AD has set industry standards, educated and inspired the next generation and, more recently, has demonstrated the impact of creativity and innovation on enhancing business performance.”

Citizen Media and Sustainability

The website/blog Worldchanging.com offers a range of environmental insights into different areas: stuff, shelter, cities, community, business, politics and planet.

“Worldchanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it’s here. We only need to put the pieces together.”

Citizen Media is included in their 21 Principles for the 21st Century posted at the end of 2007.

“Citizen Media: Who the storyteller is has a lot to do with the kind of story you’re likely to hear. That’s why citizen media is important: we need to learn to think in new ways about a wide array of interconnected and emerging problems, and to do that well, we need a wide array of perspectives on those problems, and channels for the introduction of possible solutions. In the public debate, no less than in ecosystem science, diversity promotes resilience.”

Urban Echo

“Urban Echo is an ongoing series of interactive sound and video installations. The project has appeared in many forms (see below) ranging from intimate outdoor video sculpture to large interactive public façades. Urban Echo aims to collect and creatively represent the thoughts and imaginings of city-dwellers.

In each installation, participants send their thoughts and questions via SMS and voicemail. The responses are the then projected and added to a dynamic spatialized audio composition.

Urban Echo was originally conceived as a collaboration between Christopher Baker, Laura Baker and J. Anthony Allen”