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With all that’s possible with TV & film these days, how is it that we are still in the “next slide please” stone age of image presentation?

This question prompted the guys at Animoto Productions, a bunch of TV/film producers and techies, to lock themselves in a room and nerd-out. Their mission? To make the type of stuff they did while producing shows at MTV, Comedy Central & ABC available to everyone. Their first release, Animoto, does just that.

Animoto users simply choose which images they’d like to display and a song. Animoto then produces a fully customized & unique video to them. Produced in a widescreen format, the result is a video that has the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

Welcome to the end of slideshows.

Best of all, no two videos are ever the same. Ever. Even videos generated with an identical set of images and music selection will each have an entirely distinct set of motion design. Sharing them is easy too, as they can be emailed, downloaded, and embedded on websites including social network sites like Facebook and MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »

I didn’t really know what to call this post so I’ll just tell it like it is and you can work out for yourself what it should be…

Before you think ‘oh no, another one of those “give me $1000 and I will make you $1,000,000″ scams – this is not an offer it is an opportunity.

I’m looking for an ‘Apprentice’ Read the rest of this entry »

WorDoG is inspired by the great strategy board game “Risk”. Conquer the world. WorDoG is not just a simple copy, but extends the players possibilities to enjoy a more versatile gameplay. It’s even possible to join alliances with other players and fight for three-dimensional worlds.

clipped from www.wordog.net 1.1 Principles Conquer the world by conquering each country on the map. A country has a morale which affects battle outcomes, it has armies and one owner. Besides that, every country generates income to let you buy more armies in one of your countries. The income depends on the number of neighbours a coutry has (and of course on game speed and if there is a factor set that multiplies all income. 1.2 Basic actions Invest (buy armies), move or attack is more or less all you do when youre playing WorDoG. Please notice that after moving to or attacking a country the target country only offers limited options for a certain time (e.g. no immediate attack after movement). 1.3 Politics Games can run with or without politics. If the creator disabled politcs, the gameplay just consists of buying, moving and attacking. Diplomacy lets the players sign in¬dividual peace treaties for a certain time.

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