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a DIGITAL ARSENAL of finely sliced hand curated shares.

My Initial Thoughts On JUX.COM: A New "Immersive Full-Frame" (Blogging) Experience

[ JUST A HEADS UP: This is not really a full feature review! ]

 

Read this post on my JUX site CLICK HERE

 

 

Working as a (video) creative in the media industry, we tend to think, speak, share and even argue through our own unique language 

of pictures, sound, and of course, story.

 

Playing with all those elements everyday can prove both magical and crazy at times depending on the client, budget, deadline or the amount of Red Bull still left in the fridge. ;)

 

It's a world where quality of expression, presentation and interpretation is in full reign! 

 

And a place where elements and ideas are meticulously crafted into "engaging" and "immersive" user experiences. Or we at least hope they are. ;)

 

From my own personal experience, translating much of this process to the web has left me both frustrated and disappointed.

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FCPX: A curated journey & my thoughts on Shareist!

[ HEADS UP: THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF FCPX ]

@zbutcher: As mentioned in my last post I think Shareist is a rock'n new curation tool and website. It's fast, simple and elegantly displays your shares/posts for viewers to visually enjoy. Coincidentally, at the time I began playing around with Shareist, Apple had announced the new version of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX).

At first, I was doing what I always do as a professional (PRO) editor faced with new toys, I was "taking the temperature": bookmarking and saving reactions, information, videos, etc. for my own personal research. However, that plan didn't last very long as something bigger had begun to unfold. Users started to download & explore the software immediately only to quickly discover that many features (Tape I/O, multi-cam, OMF/XML support, etc.) required for PRO application (and currently implemented in FCP7) were now non-existent in FCPX.

Even though some were excited, the release was mostly met with vehement opposition and disappointment by the existing PRO market, especially by those of us working in the broadcast television and film industries. Immediately, reactions, information and videos were hitting the net and social media networks at a feverish pace. It was then that I really dove deep into Shareist and decided to place myself in the epicenter of the curation storm and potential Apple marketing "debacle." An hour later, my curated "mission control center" for FCPX was up and running.

"Final Cut Pro X" [ curated by @zbutcher ] 

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Shareist.com rocks as a curation tool with a little bit of blogging/website thrown in. Scoop.it also fun!

@zbutcher: Somehow I stumbled on Shareist and I have to say it's very impressive. Honestly, I'm much better at curating than I will ever be at blogging. But that's okay since they are two different things to a large extent. Blogging is great platform to express one's self by writing insightful articles and sharing their point of view. Curation is... well a whole separate beast. I'm not going to write about what it is or isn't, there are many excellent reads covering that concept already. Anyway, it turns out that I love to curate, it's just a part of my nature. So it's nice to see some powerful new web tools (Shareist, Scoop.it and the like) that allow me to do my thang.

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@COOLIRIS rock's LiveShare "real-time" photo/video sharing app & Immersive 3D advertisements via @Scobleizer!

@zbutcher: I've always been a big fan of the COOLIRIS wall viewer but after these fun interviews with Scobleizer I was even more impressed with the great tech/design of the new products this team is creating. LiveShare is an exciting new "real-time" group photo/video sharing app while their "decks & immersive 3D" ads are some of the best examples I've seen of elegant ways to engage & pique consumer interest on mobile devices.
A must see/read for creative agencies & web publishers looking to produce unique & engaging online & web experiences. 
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Comcast's CEO Roberts Downloads 23 Episodes of 30 Rock in 1.39 Minutes at 1Gbps

@zbutcher: Wow, so jealous... wicked fast! Can't happen soon enough IMHO. Not sure of the cost but the concept alone is enough to want make hard core web surfers (like myself) start save up immediately! 

At the Cable Show in Chicago today, Comcast's CEO Brian Roberts showcased the company's ability to deliver 1 gigabit per second throughput by downloading a full season of 23 episodes of 30 Rock in just 1 minute, 39 seconds. Putting the 1 Gbps throughput in context, Roberts noted that back in 1996, delivering 1-2 megabits per second was state of the art, and that as recently as 2007, 100 megabits per second was the limit. 

Increasing speed has been a core value proposition of cable's broadband ISP efforts for years. It has taken on even greater importance recently as consumption of high-quality video has soared. An emerging theme in the pay-TV industry is delivering not just on-demand streams, but full lineups of live TV over IP as well. All of this will drive ever-higher consumer needs for bandwidth. 

[ Read More via videonuze.com ]

 

DAVID WESSON'S READ: The future of TV is social & the revolution is coming!

@zbutcher: Fantastic breakdown of the social media landscape and it's integration with media & TV. Includes: lot's of informative stats, videos and a social TV app listing. Between Wesson and WIRED's "How TV's 'Vast Wasteland' Became a Vast Garden" one gets a very good sense of how "disruptive" the internet is for the television and media industries. Hold-on tight, cause there's going to be a lot of "media turbulence" during the upcoming years.


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A few great excerpts from David's post include:

“TV is a crazy, weed-filled, wonderful, out-of-control garden.” It is time to rethink TV. It is time to imagine what it could be and redefine it for the participatory culture of tomorrow.

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Comcast to show off new Xfinity TV guide with Facebook tie-ins, Intel CPU Thursday (video) -- Engadget

@zbutcher: After this great read about the "Social Media TV Revolution" from David Wesson's DIGITAL CULTURE, it's makes sense that Comcast and other CE manufacturers are all rushing to integrate social media into their TV/Multi-media devices. I personally feel it's better suited on a second screen but hey, I'm also not in my twenties... (unfortunately). 

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Thanks to one of our readers getting an early install, we've already dug deep into Comcast's next generation Xfinity TV DVR, but on Thursday Brian Roberts will show it off in full (along with "new broadband speeds") at the 2011 NCTA Cable Show . According to the press release the new guide that blends internet content with TV broadcasts will include customizations and sharing tied to Facebook along with hardware built by Pace around an Intel CPU -- if anyone needs a suggestion for a service to add after Skype, we're thinking OnLive could be a good fit. The detail we're waiting to hear is when it will be upgrading the pitiful boxes currently available in our neck of the woods, but until then we have another tipster to thank for pointing out a cache of demo videos posted on the portal for initial testers in Georgia. The 17-minute compilation of walkthrough videos is embedded above, just try not to drool too hard over the HD formatted UI. [ Read More via engadget.com ]

Roku lands in Walmart without Netgear help — Online Video News

@zbutcher: This is huge news for Roku. This move will now allow them to further their reach with consumers in an actual "brick & mortar" retail space. Very smart move... well done.
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Updated. Roku has confirmed that it’s struck a retail partnership to sell its broadband set-top boxes in Walmart stores. But the deal comes without the help of Netgear , whom Roku had partnered with last year to extend its reach into major retail outlets. [ Read More via gigaom.com  ]


 

 

 

Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship.

@zbutcher: On Harvard's University's Nieman Journalism Lab site there is an excellent read on curation from Maria Popova editor of Brain Pickings. She discusses Twitter's use "as discovery" and "curation as authorship." If you like the excerpt below, you're really going to enjoy the full read.

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Last week, Megan Garber wrote an excellent piece on whether Twitter is speech or text. Yet despite a number of insightful and timely points, I’d argue there is a fundamental flaw with the very dichotomy of the question. While Twitter can certainly be both, it’s inherently neither. And trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox.

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How Twitter + iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Apps

@zbutcher: Great read about the benefits of Twitter's new "built-in" integration with Apple's upcoming iOS5.

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via readwriteweb.com

A deep integration of Twitter and iOS 5 was among the many things announced by Apple today but it's not just that you'll be able to post to Twitter from inside official Apple apps like photos and maps. Any 3rd party iOS developer will be able to leverage a number of Twitter Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to make their apps better and more social. After email, SMS and iOS messaging, Twitter will now become a key social layer over the top of many of the apps on iOS devices. [ more ]