New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 64

Photo credit: Dave Le

1. Video sharing community offers a revenue sharing program through Google AdSense
2. Personal file transfer program that works by directly connecting you to your recipients
3. Web-based spreadsheet editor that enables instantaneous online collaboration with anyone
4. Online drawing tool that provides an environment for diagramming, creating flow charts and free hand drawing
5. Multi-protocol instant messaging client allows you to access all major IM clients
6. Online community provides access to thousands of songs and allows you to record your own version of songs
7. Web-based spell-checking application that lets you spell correct from any operative system
8. Highlight text (like on real paper) on any page on the Internet and share it with everybody
9. Web service that allows you to share photos and videos and embed them on any website
10. Create your own photoblog and upload pictures via email and mobile phones
11. Save text notes on the Web, classify them according to tags and share them with others
12. Wiki platform that allows easy website building and editing directly from a web browser
13. Virtual hard drive that offers 500MB online storage space

Here is another edition of the Sharewood Picnic, the weekly collection of some of the most interesting new media tools and resources hand-picked by Robin Good and me (Livia Iacolare) during our daily online explorations.

1. Flixya
   
   
   
   Flixya is a video sharing community where users can share videos from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, and other video sharing sites. Flixya offers a revenue sharing program (requires Google AdSense account) and a rewards program where users can win prizes. You will make 50% of the Google Adsense revenue generated by the videos you submit. In addition, Flixya has a charity feature, which gives back to the community. Free to use.
   
   http://www.flixya.com





2. Civil Netizen
   
   Civil Netizen is a personal file transfer program that works by directly connecting you to your recipients. First your files and folders will be compressed into a parcel archive (.parc). Then, instead of e-mailing the actual files, you give a pickup slip to your recipients, which is about 8 lines of text. Using information in the pickup slip, Civil Netizen will begin downloading files directly from your computer. Once download is complete, your recipients can choose to unpack the parcel to their desktop or another folder. Free to use.
   http://civilnetizen.com





3. Numbler
   
   Numbler is a web-based spreadsheet editor that enables instantaneous online collaboration with anyone on your project team. With Numbler multiple users can work with a spreadsheet, view changes in real time, and discuss changes. Numler provides full size sheets and 256 x 65536 cells. Free to use.
   http://numbler.com





4. ajaxSketch
   
   ajaxSketch is a web-based drawing tool that provides an environment for diagramming, creating flow charts, free hand drawing and more. You can perform functions such as resize, rotate, change background or pen colors, and alter opacity directly within your Firefox browser. Once finished with your images, you can easily save your work right to your hard drive. ajaxSketch is free to use and requires Mozilla Firefox.
   http://ajaxsketch.com





5. Kopete
   
   Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client supporting Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, .NET Messenger Service, SMS, and Yahoo! Messenger. Although it can run in numerous environments, it was designed for and integrates with the KDE desktop environment. Free download.
   http://kopete.kde.org





6. SingShot
   
   SingShot is an online community which provides access to thousands of songs and allows you to record your own version of songs. SingShot also provides you with your own recording studio where you can organize your recordings, add favorite members and recordings, and communicate with other SingShot members. Features like recording songs are accessible by signing-up for a trial membership which will give you access to thousands of songs right away. After the free trial period, you can always choose from one of the subscription plans to enjoy recording unlimited songs. Free sign up.
   http://www.singshot.com





7. Orangoo
   
   Orangoo is a web-based application that lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access. Orangoo provides spell check in 27 languages and it partially uses the Google spell checker and Aspell. The source code is free, so users can place it in their own Web applications. Free to use.
   http://orangoo.com/spell





8. Wizlite
   
   Wizlite is a web-based service allows you to highlight text (like on real paper) on any page on the Internet and share it with everybody. If you have to research on a topic on the Internet collaboratively you can create a group on Wizlite and you are instantly enabled to share pages with their selections. Wizlite uses a Firefox extension or a bookmarklet (wizlite) to show and store the selections. You can view public selections anonymously (Firefox extension or bookmarklet: wizanon). Free to use.
   http://wizlite.com





9. DropShots
   
   DropShots is a web service that allows you to share photos and videos. DropShots supports MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV, and 3GP from all major digital cameras. DropShots uses the Flash plug-in to stream the video and allows you to embed your content in a website. This service provides support both for Windows and Mac users and is designed to be kid safe. Free to use.
   http://dropshots.com





10. Fotopages
    
    Fotopages is a website that allows you to create your own photoblog. You are enabled to create entries via email, from a mobile phone equipped with a camera or any email program. Each Fotopage has its own subdomain: http://username.fotopages.com and viewers can post comments to your entries. Free to use.
    http://www.fotopages.com





11. iKnolio
    
    iKnolio is a service that helps you save text notes on the Web. You can classify your notes according to tags, make them public or private, search them and add filters. You may publish/make your notes for other users and also you can read all the information written for others by your friends.Everything is stored in the same place where you have the access from all over the world via Internet. Free to use.
    http://iknolio.com





12. Ziwiki
    
    Ziwiki is a Wiki platform that allows easy website building and editing directly from a web browser. Ziwiki allows not only text editing, but also more complex functionalities to be built, for instance, calendars or Google Maps can be included as modules. Ziwiki is completely free to use.
    http://www.ziwiki.com





13. 4shared
    
    4shared is a virtual hard drive that offers 500MB online storage space. Once they are stored, you can access your files from anywhere at any time and share them with people from all over the world. Simply upload your files, make them shared, and email the sharing link to people you would like to share your files with. 4shared is completely free to use.
    http://www.4shared.com