http://flowplayer.org

It will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content such as news, weather and share prices to TV screens.

Read the full article at BBC News

Every month Smashing Magazine take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. You’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles Smashing Magazine have found over the last 30 days.

Make sure you check:
- Vintage Logotypes
- jQuery Tutorials for Designers
- CSS Message Box collection
- Most used CSS tricks
- Feed Analysis v1.1
- Acid3 Test Released

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/27/best-of-march-2008/

The technology behind Siafu - Magneclay, is an oil based synthetic agent that possesses limitless morphing capabilities. Its loose molecular structure but can be infinitely rearranged when acted upon by electrical and magnetic charges. As long as the charges acting upon it remain stable, the magneclay will hold its structural rigidity, allowing it to be touched and groped without deformation.

This is one of the most impressive features:
Siafu utilizes 2-D to 3-D image conversion technology to process screen images. It then generates a 3-Dimensional digital wire frame which is then process through electrical currents into the magneclay. The end result is a highly accurate 3-Dimensional representation of the image.

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What is the difference between these two new online tools, what is their offer, what can you do with it?

I have tested the two tools and they are both very cool… It looks like another wave of technology is coming on the internet!

Mogulus

What is it?
With Mogulus, you can blend your webcam, video clips from YouTube, and your own original content into your own unique TV program - and you call all the shots. When you’re not broadcasting live, turn on the auto-pilot and let it drive your playlist.

Set up
First you need an account, after 2 weeks I got a mail from Mogulus with the good news. Once you are logged in, creating a channel is very easy.

Let’s play

My first impression was wow!! I have my own tv channel. Adding youtube video’s, pictures, ticker text, live streaming, … It’s fun, but you have got to have time. The loading of a movie into your storyboard takes a lot of time. They have to import and convert earch video. When you are not making a tv show, you can set up the autopilot, streaming your video’s or pictures.

Kyte.tv

What is it?
With kyte, you create your own live TV shows and broadcast them on your own interactive channel, on your website, blog, social network or mobile phone.

Set up
You don’t have to apply for a beta account, just fill in your details and you have an account. I couldn’t be easier. Once you have created your channel, you can start. The big difference with Mogulus is the live streaming. With Kyte you make record your video, make your slideshow or your poll and broadcast it.

Let’s play

I created a poll and a video with my webcam. You can add a lot of stuff to broadcast:
- slideshow
- picture
- webcam records
- video player
- music player
- poll
- title
- link
- textbox

Pro’s and cons

Kyte

+

- recording from your webcam
- easy poll tool
- different broadcast items
- chat screen

-

- no live streaming

Mogulus

+

- live streaming
- live integration youtube movie
- multiple user webcam
- feels like a real tv channel

-

- time to import and convert movies

Conclusion

I love Mogulus, Kyte is a good tool for making different broadcast items. But with Mogulus, you really have your own tv channel!

- Kyte.tv
- My Kyte.tv channel
- Mogulus
- My Mogulus channel

Tabbed browsing plugin for firefox, the effect is like switching account on your mac, or alt+enter on parallels.

You can download the plugin here. It’s fun for a while, but i have disabled the plugin because when you are working you don’t need all the animations.

Video at read more

source Techeblog.com

This web 2.0 service makes your own preloader, change the colors, animation and hit generate. You can download your *.gif file.

http://www.ajaxload.info/

With mosaickr you can create beautiful mosaics from your flickr pictures. And if you want, you can print them on a big poster!

http://start.mosaickr.com/

A great tool to generate a background image for your website. After customizing your colors and stripes you can download the image for implementation!

http://www.stripegenerator.com/index.php?page=index

The title should say enough…

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

It’s a great application if you don’t want to use bootcamp. You run windows in OS X and if you are tired of your windows, simply delete the folder.

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

Little video after read more

Google announced the Google Desktop for Mac on their Official Google Mac blog (lot’s of google in one sentence).

The application takes many of the features from the Windows product, such as indexing Gmail and web history, Google.com integration, finding content in past file revisions and deleted files, and fast application launching.

http://desktop.google.com/mac

LabPixies Radio, Listen to your favorite radio stations right on your homepage! Select your country or enter your station’s URL manually and tune in. simple and fun.

You can use the code to put on your blog, google personalized homepage, live.com, …

http://labpixies.com/gadget_page.php?ID=23

They have other gadgets like Video Poker, BlackJack, iTunes Feeds, LabPixies TV, Flickr Slides, …

Netvibes.com is a custom made web 2.0 home page solution

This service is free and gives the user the ability :
- personalized page with the content they like
- data feeds and services from web 2.0
- access your page anytime and from any computer

It is also possible to :
- browse, modify, and import your RSS feeds
- import, download and listen podcasts
- check your mail on one or many gmail account

http://www.netvibes.com/

Little example

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-03-07-n12.html

source: Jesse