Piclens!

Just discovered Piclens. Wow! What a cool addon to Mozilla.

What is it? Piclens is an application which allows you to view pictures, which you find at google, flickr, facebook etc., on a 3d wall. It’s almost an Apple frontrow experience in combination with a searchengine. I did a simple test and searched for “christopher Marks” in Flickr. I got my pictures on the wall. I can zoom in on them. Make them Full screen. Easily scroll through them. It’s the most beautiful picture viewer I’ve seen. It makes me think of the tiltviewer, from airtightinteractive. However this has another function, and it is great. Download it immediately! Because I know you will fall in love with it. Just like I did.

This is very easy to download, and it gives you an great experience to watch photo’s. go to www.piclens.com

searchme!

Found this new website for which I signed up. It is a visual search engine. So you can search for pictures?! No, If you type your query it shows scrennshots from the homepages of the relevant websites. In a way which looks very familiar with Apple users . I’ll play with the engine this week and I’ll keep you updated. Sign up yourself or just have a look at the demo. Could this be the next Google?

searchme

Mobus

Watching Mobuzz in the bus on my way to school. With the free wifi connection I can surf with high-speed to all my favorite blogs.

Olivia of Mobuzz got me thinking

Olivia ( the English Mobuzz TV presenter) got me thinking when she clicked with her fingers in today’s show. I found this guy on the web. And well… I had to post it.

UGC @ the Daily buzz – Mobuzz 2.0

Mobuzz keeps surprising me lately. Today Mobuzz has launched an addition to their website. Newsroom 2.0. It is still in Beta and it isn’t really clear how you get at the Newsroom, but when you get there it is pretty cool. I got there via my profile page, which unfortunately hasn’t improved.

What can you do at the Newsroom then?

Your able to create your own content for the newsroom. Let other mobuzzers know what you think is worth watching. You can submit photo’s, video’s or URL’s. This way I could make little documentaries, upload them to Mobuzz and use Mobuzz as my Broadcasting channel. I could also use Mobuzz as an youtube channel, or maybe as an public mini blog.

There also is an vote option. It’s could Buzz instead of Digg. I’m not sure what happens if you have the most “buzzes”. Maybe you can become the Mobuzzer of the Month. I’m sure that will become clear later this week.

I had to make a post, and promoted my blog. =) ( what else ?*) When I uploaded my story I finally saw more of the Mobuzz Bee. Finally! I think they should do more with the logo.The polishing they did on the daily buzz is also an improvement. Much more Mobuzz.
Well enough Alliteration with the Mobuzz M. ( I just like to do that).

I’ll play further with the site, I recommend you do the same!

http://www.mobuzz.tv
http://www.mobuzz.tv/newsroom/eng/

* The arrow on the newsroom picture points to my post. My blog. Just thought you should know.

Wish I had a Nokia :-(

Wow wish I had a Nokia. I just found out I could use this really cool website and provide a live stream to the web with my Mobile phone. However it only works with Nokia’s at the moment. September will be the month for a new phone. Maybe I will go to Nokia. However the next gen Iphone series should be very cool. Well plenty of time to discuss with my wallet.

If you have a Nokia you should have a look at this site. And let me know what you think about it. How does it work? Is it fun? That kind of stuff. If you don’t have a Nokia. Just have a look anyway.

http://qik.com/

Kodak Moment?

After seeing this video, you just know Kodak will return!

Been there done that @ the Mobile World Congress.

Wow time flies, almost a week ago I packed my bags for the journey back to the Netherlands. Now back in my student life, with my Mobuzz morning ritual and my journeys with the wifi bus, I look back at Barcelona with a big smile on my face.

The first day at the MWC I noticed that I was probably one of the youngest persons at the congress. I figured that students ( like myself) must find this congress really interesting, but the Spanish media students weren’t there. A bit odd, cause these students, will be part of the media world in a few years.

So what did a Young Media Investigator find at the Mobile World Congress? What did he find interesting, and what did he think was absolutely ****. Well let’s start with the coolest hall. I think hall 7 was the best. The creative media companies, Ice cream and great cool demo’s made this happen. Vizrt, yahoo and clip in touch are the winners in this hall.

Vizrt had these real cool real time 3d graphics. The football demo that Francois Laborie showed me was really cool. In this demo you could get information about different players from a team. But the design of this program was so User friendly, and was very clear that I needed to tell you all about Vizrt.

Yahoo? well besides they had very nice Ice cream with chocolate topping, yahoo also had the one-search application, which I found very interesting. This app allows you to get information just as fast as you’ll get on your your desktop. The relevant links which yahoo provides are really relevant. Not just a random ad. OneSearch provides multiple ways to get the information you want, you could actually send a text to an number, to get an answer on your phone almost instantly. Within 3 clicks you could get to the same information. They also launched the GO3.0 Beta. Which actually is a very handy starting point on your mobile phone. I couldn’t get an demo on this app, but it looked very interesting and it would be worth to have a look at there site.

Then I get to the point where I’m going to talk about probably the most cool demo I got at MWC. Clip in Touch, why was this so cool? Simply because this product is real easy to use and I could see myself use this. Clip in Touch is exactly what the name says. Clip in touch makes it possible to transform your desktop or mobile phone in your own production studio. Within a minute you can mix text, transitions, graphics, user generated content, music and video. So you could send an video clip to your friends. The results are very nice, and you don’t have to be tecky at all. Clip in touch is a product everyone could use to surprise a friend in a very original way. Please have a look at there site for it may be become the way to “text” your friends. You could see clip in touch as MMS 2.0.

These companies had the most impact at me. But which other stands were worth visiting? In hall 2 you had a very cool stand Spinvox. Which allowed you to transform Voice in text. I couldn’t get a demo from the product itself. But the pitch that was given was a nice scenario. If it works as the lady said, it will be an very handy tool. Think of Mobile blogging, or a journalist who has interviews very often.

Also Momac, a Dutch company who was in hall 7 impressed me with there demo. Momoc has made this tool where they can very easily make Mobile Websites. It was a very smart program they made, in which you can build the website in blox. If you know some HTML it shouldn’t be problem to make an Mobile website. If your interested in a mobile website, Momac is the place to be!

So what was absolutely ****? Well I expected MUCH more from stands like Orange. What did Orange try to do at the MBC 2008? They had a few meeting rooms, and some showcases with their “great” livebox. Well the stand gave free drinks, so that was the only reason to drop by some times. I don’t want to make this a very negative article, cause I had a really good time at the MWC. But these companies who did this should reconsider their stands for next year.

World Mobile Congress

I have never seen anything like this. The atmosphere, the stands, the location. It all seems to fit. I’m at the Mobile World Congress, and I’m having loads of fun.

So what do I do here then? Well, I try to get an overview of the congress. What technologies are new? Innovative and what companies are the rising stars. I have seen some nice stuff from Adobe (flash lite) and Vizrt has some real nice graphics. Besides graphics and cool stuff I have been to the stand of Spinvox where every voice is converted into text. Should be very handy when interviewing with skype, or writing on your blog without having access to a computer.

I’m in the press room at the moment, and some people really are willing to kill somebody for access to a computer. Check fulltime chris for updates. Cause a full GSMA report through the eyes of an young media investigator will be available at the end of next week.

Hasta luego!

check these sites for more info:

http://www.spinvox.com/

http://www.vizrt.com/

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

Mobuzz Live!

I had a nice surprise when I went to my morning ritual; Mobuzz. The daily buzz show went live and had a discussion with a chat function. This way Mobuzz viewers could interact with the Mobuzz team. For a first show it was great. And I really hope it would become a weekly live show. Next time Mobuzz could better brief us what the Mobuzz team is going to discuss. Ask us questions on forehand. This way we could even more participate with the discussion. Doesn’t need to be long, the Monday minute should be enough. But that way we could ask/discuss about the subjects in the live show. You can find the Mobuzz video’s at: www.mobuzz.tv.