New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 10

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to by other new media scouts and bloggers, or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe to.

Photo credit: Carin Araujo

Try for yourself, download, install and amaze yourself with some of these great new resources and tools. Here is my new basket of weekly selected new media gems:

1. Video clip hosting, distribution and auto-streaming service


2. News social bookmarking community


3. Video upload and BitTorrent distribution service


4. Agency selling brokering amateur shots and video clips to mainstream media outlets


5. Service enabling musicians to get supporter-based financing for their music


6. Gallery of best Apple-related Quicktime movie clips


7. Social networking meets location tagging


8. Translation exchange community service


9. RSS aggregation and tagging technology


10. Google-guided tour to the Moon landing sites


11. RSS Automated Submission Service

Enjoy!

1. Juss Press
   
   
   JussPress is a unique online video (and photo) hosting and distribution service. JussPress converts uploaded videos to Flash and automatically generates a snippet of code that can be embedded in your blog or site page to display your video in a fully streaming format. This means that your video clip starts to play almost instantaneously avoiding viewers the need to first download and then view the clip. JussPress also organizes your videos by year, month, week, day and more. JussPress makes also use of a handy mini-tool that once installed sits on your desktop. By simply dragging files to that icon they are immediately uploaded to the JussPress servers. JussPress supports .mpg, .avi, .mov, and .wmv video file types, all digital cameras popular photo formats, as well as full compatibility with Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix computers. The free version of JussPress is limited to 1,000 photos and 10 videos (maximum length for each video is 2 minutes). If you want to bump your video hosting capacity and get rid of the ads that appear in the basic version, just donate $5/month to JussPress and have no more limits on number of video clips uploaded.
   http://jusspress.com/
   





2. CommonTimes
   
   CommonTimes is a news social bookmarking service that publishes news from the Web and the blogosphere according to user preferences. CommonTimes.org is a grassroots community site that helps individuals share the stories they feel are most important. CommonTimes users can in fact easily bookmark any site they visit by adding their selected links to a dedicated online submission form in which they can specify also the content category and assign any number of tags. CommonTimes and all its associated sites generate multiple public RSS feeds, both for the most popular content as well as for your own customizable channel. Finally users can create instant communities that allow groups of like-minded people to follow their preferred news.
   http://www.commontimes.org/





3. CommonFlix
   
   In the family of the CommonTimes sites there are also CommonTunes, to upload and share audio and music clips, CommonBits which allows BitTorrent sharing and distribution of standard files, and YotoPhoto, previously reviewed here. CommonFlix is a new free service and community directory allowing anyone to upload video clips in all of the major video formats. The video clips are distributed automatically through a BitTorrent P2P approach. CommonFlix relies on member support to provide new features, hosting, bandwidth, and disk space for the community. Non registered and non-paying users can upload a maximum of 5MB. Additional disk space for hosting video files on Commonflix allows the use of the extra disk space on all CommonMedia network sites. The membership options range from Basic at $19.99 per year with 100 MB disk space to Publisher at $159.99 per year for 1 GB of disk space.
   http://www.commonflix.org/





4. Scoopt
   
   Scoopt is a media agency that has been created specifically to help individuals, amateur photographers and street reporters sell photographs and videoclips of newsworthy events to the press. Scoopt bridges the gap between amateur photographer and news agencies picture desks. Scoopt key mission is to sell your newsworthy photos to newspapers, magazines or other news organisations at the highest possible price. Each time they make a sale, Scoopt splits 50-50 the compensation received for the sale of your image(s).
   http://www.scoopt.com/





5. Quid Music
   
   QuidMusic is a unique site enabling musicians to sell their music direct to their fans. All you have to do is put a pledge button on your website. Then you decide how much you'd like to receive for your next single. By using Pledge indpendent musicians and artists can literally pledge their fans and supporters to contribute financially to the realization of a new album or song in their own personal capacity.
   http://www.quidmusic.com/





6. Some Cool Quicktime Movies
   
   This the best collection of Quicktime movies about Apple products and the Mac. It goes from the historical of the first launch of the Mac to the most recent advertising campaigns used for the launch of the Tiger Mac OS or for the slick-looking PowerBook G4.
   http://esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/movies.html





7. Street Hive
   
   StreetHive is a new, free service that combines social networking,
   and geographic location tagging. StreetHive is like having a big map that you and your friends can tag with notes, photos, reviews, and your own locations. Find your friend's location and meet up, create and swap location-tagged photos and messages, discover and broadcast your new favorite places, send free text messages to a friend or a group of friends for free.
   http://www.crunkie.com/





8. Cucumis
   
   Cucumis is a community of translators who share their linguistic knowledge and help each other online. Cucumis is in fact a web-site community of free-lance translators where you can submit texts to be translated. To use the service, you must be a registered member, and you can gain points when you translate a text. You also need points to submit a text to be translated. Cucumis will be useful to you only when you speak at least one foreign language. Cucumis is completely free as this community service is based on the exchange of services for mutual advantage. All translations are rated by administrators and experts. A member is promoted "Expert" for a given language when he or she has completed many translations which were rated with an average of over 7/10. Cucumis roughly translates as "Watermelon" from Latin, a spherical fruit like the earth, full of vitality and happiness.
   http://www.cucumis.org/
   





9. Rojo
   
   Rojo means "RSS with mojo" and it is a service dedicated to providing the best RSS feed reader around so that busy people can manage and read content as efficiently as possible. With Rojo you can tag your world, your content, your feeds, and even your friends. Based on analytics and community-based features Rojo integrates also RojoBuzz, which tracks which webpages are most linked-to by the feeds you read. With Rojo's community features you can share stories, feeds, tags, contacts, and profile information with your friends and colleagues, making it easy to find, discover, and share interesting content.
   http://rojo.jot.com/WikiHome





10. Google Moon
    
    In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, here is a clever mashup: NASA imagery added to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial sister the moon. Happy lunar surfing.
    http://moon.google.com/
    
11. RSS Blog Submit
    
    John Teh in Malaysia has put together an RSS submission service that allows you to place your selected RSS feed in as many as over 100 RSS search engine and directories. Based on the RSSTop55, the most comprehensive list of RSS search engines and directories available online, RSS Blog Submit costs $47 for a one time submission to 44 Blog Directories, 52 RSS Feed Directories, 18 General Directories, and to 13 Blog Directories That Require a Reciprocal Link.
    http://www.rssblogsubmit.com/