Content Delivery And Distribution - Articles Archive
from January 11, 2007 to December 15, 2006

Socialtext Unplugged is leading the way in adding a whole new level of flexibility to the world of web-based applications, by pioneering ways in which you will be able to work seamlessly with your favourite web apps even when you are not Internet-connected. Only a few ... read more

Have you been trying to find some cool internet video only to waste a lot of time to find little or nothing? You are not alone. Nonetheless the huge amount of video content now accessible online, finding the quality part of this infinite long tail of videos ... read more

Internet video and online collaboration were massive growth sectors in 2006, and as 2007 forges ahead the two are finally coming together. With the emergence of the first real-time video synching and sharing solutions, the Internet video experience is definitely bound to become a critical work ... read more

Music video creation service lets you personalize your own video clips through a web-based recording and post-production studio Video tagging service allows you to bookmark specific scenes inside online videos on YouTube and Metacafe Video clips clearinghouse lets you watch some of the very best user-generated video clips ... read more

Online collaboration moved from strength to strength in 2006 with a host of free and paid services that allowed for rapid web-based sharing of ideas, documents and even desktops. Until now, though, web-based collaboration has tended towards emulating the function of office applications, at the expense ... read more

Online video, Internet television, IPTV and grassroots independent video publishing will indeed be some of the fastest moving new media sectors. All of them will see further changes, unpredicted disruptions and innovation, and lots of new fascinating video publishing tools and content opportunities during 2007. This ... read more

Video sharing community allows you to create your own video channel Video playlist creator lets you build up and share your own video playlist Video encoder enables you to encode your own videos within your browser Project management tool lets you manage tasks and collaborate online with your team Web ... read more

2006 proved itself to be the year of online video, and as the medium has evolved more and more free online resources have become readily available for those willing to look for them. As universities get wise to the Open Courseware concept, and independent video producers ... read more

For corporate newsmasters OPML reading lists are an excellent way of gathering and custom-distributing thematic collections of RSS Feeds within the organization. By being able to effectively aggregate, organize, label, and provide selected access to thematic RSS feeds collections, corporate digital information librarians are now given ... read more

Corporate Web sites may not push out awesome viewership statistics compared to many media sites, but the data coming out of recent research is pointing to direct communications with online audiences providing multiples more impact on their bottom lines than media-based advertising. Online media companies are likely ... read more

Online video is a great way to add rich content to your blog or website, whether you are keeping a personal journal or running a for-profit operation. The Google Ajax Search API is a great way of being able to customize the way you display your ... read more

Phone calls forwarder lets you receive calls from the Web by forwarding them to your real phone number Phone calling widget enables your site visitors to call you through their web browser Status displayer for VoIP and IM lets you show your online presence status on different networks Whiteboarding ... read more

What is an ARG? What if reality were different? What if you suddenly discovered not just different customs but different rules, different rewards, wholly different aspirations - a reality in which everyday occurences were not exactly what you thought, in which certain activities suddenly took on ... read more

At a recent gathering of CIOs, I was introduced, not as an information architect, interaction designer, or librarian, but as a futurist. I figure this affords me the latitude to make a prediction. Next year, after the bubble bursts, we will enter the era of Information ... read more

As always, much of what you have seen in 2006 is only an anticipation of yet more innovative, effective and useful new media technologies to appear in the coming months. In this yearly "technology predictions" article I take a look at key new media technology areas ... read more

XML-based datafeeds are becoming popular tools for delivering content to online audiences from Web sites. But such RSS feeds are far from popular with publishers intent on boosting page view statistics and fearing leakage through content that's delivered to users who will never come in to ... read more

Personalized home page meets online virtual desktop: YourMinis - allows you to customize your own personal start page through RSS and OPML imports, full widget integration and open sharing of your newly aggregated content. The personalized home page has proved itself to be a great way ... read more

VoIP tools allow you to make cheap international calls from your computer Web presentation service lets you upload presentations and edit them within your browser Mobile instant messaging service lets you access all major IM networks from your mobile phone Web word processor allows you to edit documents online ... read more

"During the last few years, new forms of content generation and organisation on the World Wide Web have emerged. Services such as blogs, wikis and podcasting give users the opportunity to become authors and to express themselves. For the first time, even users lacking the knowledge ... read more