Resources
From CollabWiki
This is by no means a comprehensive list. There are many more options; this is just a sampler.
- Blog aggregators/readers
- Blog search engines
- Blog or easy site creation
- Blogger - easy-to-create blog (instructions are clearly given on home page)
- Gogofrog - easy 3D website creation/social networking space
- Weebly - easy-to-create sites or blogs
- wetpaint - easy-to-create site that is a combination wiki/blog (instructions are clearly given on home page)
- WordPress - easy-to-create blog (instructions are clearly given on home page); lots of WordPress templates to choose from
- Blogging 'lite'
- Posterous
- Tumblr
- Note: Both tumblr and posterous are 'lite' blogging services (easy to share rich media, mobile-blogging friendly, etc). For those not familiar with these formats, you can have a look here: http://mashable.com/2009/06/29/posterous-vs-tumblr/ and http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_tumblr_posterous_other_light_blogging_services.php
- Bookmarking - social bookmarking/favorites aggregators
- File storage and sharing (esp large files)
- drop.io - an online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops'
- Badongo - free file storage and sharing, unlimited disk space, up to 1 GB per file (after a period of inactivity, files may be deleted?)
- MediaFire - free file storage and sharing, unlimited disk space, up to 100 MB per file (after a period of inactivity, files may be deleted?)
- Nakido - free file storage and sharing, unlimited disk space, up to 99 GB per file, files kept forever/no deletion
- Image editing
- Gimp - (GNU Image Manipulation Program) free, open source software for image composition, editing and authoring (for Mac, Windows, Unix)
- Aviary's Phoenix - browser-based image composition, editing, authoring and mashup community. Aviary has a whole suite of online apps: Phoenix-image editor, Peacock-visual laboratory with plenty of effects and fun generators, Toucan-color swatches, Raven-vector editor. The user interfaces are very intuitive and especially well-suited for mashup-making and sharing.
- Image storage
- Online collaboration tools
- Google Docs, Google calendar
- drop.io - an online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops'
- Zoho
- Online collaboration tools (realtime)
- drop.io - an online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through user-created and controlled sharing points called 'drops'
- Thinkature - realtime, online team whiteboarding capabilities, with chat, drawing, presenting, etc features. "Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new."
- Twiddla - same as Thinkature but less set-up needed - just click "Try it now in the sandbox" and you're ready to go. Free.
- Online realtime mashup/performance apps
- KeyWorx -- KeyWorx is a multi-user cross-media synthesizer: a distributed application that allows multiple users to generate, synthesize and process images, sounds and text within a shared realtime environment. As an instrument it allows communities of performers to dynamically control and modify all aspects of digitized media in a collaborative performance.
- UpStage -- UpStage is a web-based venue and tool for artists to compile different digital media for textual and audiovisual communication into a realtime, live performance for online audiences.
- PowerPoint/Presentation creating and sharing
- Empressr - create, manage and share rich media presentations online
- Jing Project - capture from your desktop, record, and share online; check out the Video Tour
- Prezi - innovative presentation creation. Prezi lets you create presentations spatially rather than linearly. Check out Barry Joseph's Prezi presentation and blog post
- SlideShare - upload and share PowerPoint, PDF, etc files; nice interface, biggest point: large community and lots of presentations available to view and download
- VoiceThread - Transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting
- Social networks
- Meetup - facilitates real-world meetups via local, interest-focused social networks
- myspace
- Ning - ability to create your own social network
- RezEd - "the hub for learning and virtual worlds...providing practitioners using virtual worlds with access to the highest quality resources and research in the field to establish a strong network of those using virtual worlds for learning" Note: great example of a social network built on Ning
- Social networks for user recommendations/reviews
- Sound editing
- Audacity - free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
- Aviary's Myna - browser-based sound editing, automation, effects and mashup community. Intuitive user interface, plus access to Quantum tracks database. Especially well-suited for mashup-making and sharing.
- Hobnox - browser-based sound editing/production, sound-sharing and library. Their audio tool is seriously sophisticated so would only recommend using it if you're already experienced with audio production.
- Splice - browser-based sound editing/production, sound-sharing and remix community. Sports an advanced Flash sequencer, complete with real-time synths and DSP sound effects. Note: The Splice site has been down but looks like it's being worked on. For a comparable tool, try Aviary.
- Sound resources
- Free Music Directory
- ccMixter - community music site featuring remixes licenced under Creative Commons; listen, sample, mashup
- you may also want to check out the Editors' Picks and Hot Tracks page: http://ccmixter.org/view/media/picks
- freeplaymusic
- jamendo
- Ljudo - sound effects
- opsound
- The Freesound Project - also check out Geotagged sounds on FreeSound: http://www.freesound.org/geotagsView.php
- Open Sound New Orleans project
- Royalty Free Music
- User-powered news
- (Live) Video broadcasting
- Livestream - live broadcasting capability that is browser-based, allows live mixing, multiple sources, archiving, branding, live chat and in-demand broadcasting
- Ustream.tv - live broadcasting capability that is browser-based, live mixing, multiple sources
- QuickTime Broadcaster - live broadcasting software (Mac OS only). Note: certain sources require a QuickTime stream (i.e., streaming video into Second Life requires a QuickTime stream). In these cases, you'll need to use QuickTime Broadcaster which is a free app, however, you must find a server to run the stream on (in cases where you're working with a university, you can usually ask the university to use their QT streaming server)
- Video converters (convert video to different formats)
- QuickTime Pro - *recommended, mac and windows compatible, $29.95, allows for conversion/export to many different kinds of formats, including easy export for web, mp4, H264, iPhone, etc as well as multi-channel audio, capturing of video/audio, quick editing
- Movavi - free online video converter, up to 5 files limited to 10 min each and 100 Mb total size, click File then upload videos or enter URL of video
- ffmpegx - free converter for mac, install is slightly more complex, make sure you read the install instructions on the Download page, i.e., "If you are installing ffmpegX for the first time, then you must also install the mencoder and mplayer binaries and the mpeg2enc binary..."
- Prism - free video converter ("Plus" version is for purchase, for most basic conversion needs, the free version should be suitable), mac and windows compatible
- Video resources
- Internet Archive - several collections of videos, some with free licenses
- Free Video Directory
- NYPL
- Ourmedia - Video, audio, texts, images aggregated from multiple sites. Try their Get Media search tool and specify the CC-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license to find media that you can use and remix (provided you attribute credit properly and don't use it in a commercial way
- Uncensored Interview cc-licensed clips - Video Interviews. Specifically look for clips with the CC-BY License.
- Total Recut - resources & social network for fans & creators of video recuts, remixes and mashups
- Video sharing/editing
- blip.tv - video-sharing that supports every video format; _much_ better resolution than youtube
- Cuts - video-sharing plus enables browser-based video editing, mashups, capturing streamed video from other video sites
- Hobnox - video-sharing plus browser-based video editing/production and library
- Jaycut - video-sharing plus browser-based video editing and mashups
- LiVES - free, open source software for editing video. Linux, BSD, IRIX, and Mac platforms.
- Seesmic - video-sharing plus enables threaded video conversations
- Stroome - collaborative online video-editing community, browser-based editing and video sharing
- Viddler - video-sharing plus enables placing of comments & tags at various points within a video
- youtube - video-sharing
- Virtual worlds
- Wikis (create your own)
