New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 15
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This week Robin Good's new media picks selection includes:
- RSS by email feed forwarding service
- RSS ad management and tracking service
- RSS reader focuses on news aggregation
- Blogs to MP3 audio converter
- Podcast RSS feed creator from text blog entries
- Turn any RSS feed into a podcast
- Online music clearinghouse for independent artists
- DRM-free legal music downloading service
- Direct share of media files
- Search engine focusing on video news feeds
- Flash-to-video conversion tool
Photo credit: Cemal Kurtuluş
New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty new media resources, online tools and new software tools I think are worth your attention.
Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.
Enjoy!
- R|mail
Using R|mail, you can subscribe to any RSS feed and it's emailed to you. Just copy and paste the feed link into the RSS field and enter your email address. That's it. If you need help finding good feeds, check the Top Feeds list for 100 feeds. Bloggers can add an R|mail icon to their blogs so users just have to click on it and enter their email address to receive your blog's feed by email. It saves a step as your feed is already entered. Here are the instructions on how to do this. It is possible to unsubscribe to a feed and the FAQ explains four ways to do this.
http://www.kbcafe.com/Rmail.aspx
- OrangeFeed
OrangeFeed for Publishers serves content relevant advertisements to your Website's RSS feeds, guaranteeing that your Website visitors have immediate access to the updated, valuable information they are searching for. And, while getting to know more about your audience through the vital statistics OrangeFeed provides, you can generate additional revenue from your blog and RSS feeds.
http://www.orangefeed.com/index.php...
- NewsInterceptor
News Interceptor allows you to keep up-to-date with all news on the Web and it supports all known syndication formats (RSS, Atom, and RDF). With its unique technology powered by RSScache.com services, it's easy to find feeds that suit your interests. NewsInterceptor uses RSScache to saves bandwidth and to provide a way to search for feeds by keywords or get a list of the latest feeds. NewsInterceptor supports multi-language web sites.
http://www.newsinterceptor.com/
- TalkR
Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text news and blogs rather than read them. Point to it an RSS feed and TalkR will convert it from text to speech. Talkr can also provide you with a podcast. This means that you can plug your MP3 player into your home computer once a day and Talkr gives you hours of audio content with no additional work on your part. Talkr keeps tabs of your RSS feeds and sends audio to your computer as those audio files become available. The service has several subscription options, both free and paid.
http://www.talkr.com/
http://www.talkr.com/faq/what_is_talkr.html
- Podcast RSS
Using WebPasties' Podcast RSS services, you can easily add a podcast RSS feed to your existing content. The web site has a demo that shows how to publish your podcast at iTunes and then how to copy the small code snippet and paste it in your web page. You can also create a subscribe button for your podcast. With this service you can also monitor who is subscribing to your podcast with the built-in subscription tracker.
http://www.webpasties.com/podcast_rss.html
- Audiolicious
Audiolicious is a Windows program that lets you turn any RSS feed into a podcast. It uses text-to-speech to convert the feed's web pages into MP3 files. It works with RSS feeds created using del.icio.us -- just tag a web page using del.icio.us to add it to the Audiolicious job queue.
http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/...
- Mperia
Mperia allows artists to sell their work directly to their audience --Mperia sells musicians work on a song-by-song basis. Mperia takes a 30% cut of all of your sales. 15% of which goes to BitPass transaction fees, and the other 15% goes towards Mperia itself. If you sell 100 copies of a song you price at $1, you earn $700.
http://www.mperia.com/
- PlayLouder
PlayLouder is an MSP(music service provider) that provides unlimited legal music downloading as part of its broadband Internet access. The files contain no DRM (digital rights management). Even MP3s can be swapped among PlayLouder subscribers without restrictions. This is the first legal alternative to classical P2P file sharing networks often used to swap pirated tracks. Subscribers are charged £26 a month for a high speed broadband Internet connection with the added attraction of being able to share as much music as they want with other subscribers at no extra cost. Because there are no restrictions on the format in which the traded music is encoded, users are the free to transfer downloaded songs to any type of digital music player they may have (unlike what you can do with iTunes and your iPod) or even burn them directly to CD.
http://www.playlouder.com/
- PixPo
PiXPO is a P2P software application that allows you to connect directly with your friends, family and co-workers to share and view pictures, video, and audio online without the need to first upload image files to a server. PiXPO provides also privacy settings for all of your images allowing you to decide who gets to access what. To use it you just create a media album in PiXPO and add video, audio, and picture files to be shared with others. You then select the email addresses of the people you want to share your media with, add a personal message, and send invitations out. The people in your email list get a link to your album and, once thet have downloaded and installed PiXPO, they can start viewing your image albums.
http://www.pixpo.com/
- Searchforvideo
Serchforvideo.com is a free online video search engine where you can search, find and watch free online video clips videos covering news, sports, movies, music, business, health and more. Searchforvideo.com generates also RSS search feeds that allow you to be notified and to view immediately video clips as soon as those in your areas of interest become available.
http://www.searchforvideo.com/video/index.jsp
- Flash on TV
Convert Flash files to video, burn them to VCD, SVCD, or DVD and watch it on TV instead of your PC. The program comes with a menu designer, a preview to see how the project looks, the ability to capture a frame as a thumbnail image, and the ability to create an MPEG file. The trial version comes with banner ads and gives you 15 days to try it. The site is available in multiple languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Italian, German, and Dutch.
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/
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