Create Your Own Private YouTube With Fliggo
Feb 26, 2009 Mashable
Fliggo is a new social media site, funded by Y Combinator, that offers anyone the possibility to create a video sharing site or a video blog.
The process is simple: create an account with Fliggo, choose a name (in the form of name.fliggo.com) and a description for your site, and choose whether you want a video sharing site, a video blog or a very minimal site just for posting videos for others to see.
After creating your site and inviting other people to join it, you can easily change the appearance of your site by choosing a theme and a color scheme to go with it.
For a couple of examples of how Fliggo sites look, see videomathtutor.fliggo.com, dota-allstars.fliggo.com and our own mashable.fliggo.com.
The entire process of creating your site, as well as uploading and sharing videos, is dead simple. However, one has to wonder why would anyone want to create their own video sharing site, if, for example, YouTube has all you need? Well, perhaps YouTube’s look is getting a bit stale and you want a nicer look for your online video needs; another example is a company that might want to distribute videos amongst their employees without sharing them with the world.
As far as revenue and future plans go, Fliggo plans to release a public API soon, and they’ll introduce premium, paid features for demanding users.
Check out a video tutorial of Fliggo over on the official site.
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Evernote and Shoeboxed Make Receipts Universally Accessible
Feb 26, 2009 Mashable
How do you manage receipts and business cards? The super human among us file, categorize, and store their receipts and business cards for financial tracking, tax purposes, and networking needs. Most of us, though, are not super human, which means we’re probably missing out on tax deductions and building valuable relationships.
Thankfully, today two of our favorite productivity services are starting to work together to make it even easier for you to maintain an accurate, searchable, and easily accessible online database of paper essentials. Evernote, the Google Notebook redeemer and Web, mobile, and desktop note management system, is partnering with Shoeboxed, the scan-it-for-me online home of receipts and business cards, to create an effortless way to move your paper receipts to a more proper place online.
Shoeboxed users will now be able to export their entire collection of scanned receipts and business cards to Evernote, where they can be tagged, sorted, archived, and accessed from the Web, your mobile phone, or the desktop app. Given Evernote’s incredibly smart text and image recognition technology, users can now search the printed text and handwritten notes of their newly exported Shoeboxed content.
The partnership gives users a no hassle way to create, manage, and organize a comprehensive digital database from their important financial and networking paper counterparts. Together, Evernote and Shoeboxed should make typically information-dependent tasks like contact management, budgeting, and tax preparation, a more streamlined process.
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The Republic Project Puts Musicians in Control of Their Content
Feb 26, 2009 Mashable
The music business is a tricky industry with a well-established chain of command and an abundance of restrictions that make it difficult for even established artists to share their music directly with fans.
The Republic Project, officially launching next week with a few recognizable names in the business, is a new company that’s hoping to remix the standard mode of operation in the music industry by giving artists a more direct way to sell their music and engage with fans.
Even though artists can already leverage existing social sites like Kyte to produce their own branded online and mobile presence, the Republic Project appears to go one step further by targeting artists who want the independence to market, sell, and retain the rights to their records.
Essentially with the Republic Project, artists will have their own platform where they can sell their albums directly to fans, create and monetize their own video content, blog, and participate in artist and fan chat sessions. Debut artists include Tim Myers, Dexter Freebish, Steriogram, and Still Time.
Think of the Republic Project as putting artists in the driver’s seat with their own custom social home complete with branded interactive features so they engage directly with fans, and fans can grab and embed widgets to promote them across the Web. Since the Republic Project’s charter advertiser is Pure Digital Technologies – makers of the Flip HD camera – each artist will also get their own Flip cam to make it easy for them to share behind-the-scenes moments in the studio, on the road, or in concert.
Even though we’ve yet to see proof of concept, we’re supportive of the idea and look forward to seeing more develop from the Republic Project.
So, what do you think of the Republic Project’s mission? Is this a big win for artists, a huge blow to the big labels, or an idea with little traction? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments.
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OmniWeb Browser is Now Free
Feb 26, 2009 Mashable
I’m not a Mac user, and I’ve never used OmniWeb, but I know it’s a Mac-only browser with a small but enthusiastic fanbase, and I know the value of free. That’s right, OmniWeb (together with 3 other apps from Omni Group, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, OmniObjectMeter) is completely free from now on.
The current version of this WebKit based browser – OmniWeb 5.9 – touts shortcuts, integrated ad blocking, several workspaces, autosaved browsing sessions, and a good integrated RSS reader as its most important features.
Unfortunately, there’s a downside to this announcement: the apps that are now free aren’t under active development anymore. “By making these applicationsâ€â€which are not currently under active developmentâ€â€available as free downloads, we hope that more people are able to enjoy using them without the barrier of cost.” Oh well, I guess it’s the least they could do.
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YouTube Adds Social Features to API
Feb 26, 2009 Mashable
You can already import activities from YouTube into your activity stream on social networks like Facebook and FriendFeed, but now the video sharing site is expanding its API to give all developers access to this data.
The expanded API includes YouTube activities like favoriting, uploading, and commenting on videos, which the company hopes will lead to an ecosystem of external applications that include “the obvious social network / feed aggregator integrations, to notification apps, to novel data views.†In a blog post, the company notes that privacy settings will be preserved on external apps, so, a video uploaded that is friends-only will not find its way to the public on third-party sites.
YouTube seems a bit late to the party on this one – I seem to find out about interesting videos via a lot of other mediums, ranging from friend’s sending me something, to Facebook or Friendfeed activity streams, to simply visiting YouTube. That said, real-time push notifications when folks you subscribe to upload or favorite a video is definitely of value to millions of people, and I’m sure we’ll quickly see several applications that leverage the API to addresses this need.
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