Yesterday, Facebook launched Facebook Stories where you can share your Facebook story. Your story can be an individual one or an experience with several people, but nevertheless it’s (assumed) a good story that you can choose to share on stories.facebook.com. (Keep in mind that Facebook reserves the right to use your story in any way they choose, short of exploiting you via your submitted content. Just FYI.) But yeah, it’s great! lol
I shared mine today and hope that you will too. Click the stories link (above) to add your story. You can read what I wrote or click the image below the quote.
I am an enlisted Future Soldier preparing to leave for Army Basic Combat Training in August 2010. Shortly after enlisting I felt a bit disconnected on my new journey into the military. But after creating a Facebook page I have been able to connect, share ideas and get feedback from people in the same shoes, so to speak and has made my experience so much more unique. Thanks! http://facebook.com/godavidstrong
Here is Mark Zuckerberg speaking on the new release.
Recently the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum’s exhibition is holding not only a physical exhibit, but now through mobile devices via it’s new iPhone app for “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers”. Now frankly, I’m not all that interested in the exhibit itself, however I am impressed with the Smithsonian’s move into mobile technology and information age with this awesome step forward. In other words I believe more and more are catching on to the amazing future in mobile technology. Further, this initiative is not stopping short at the iPhone, but also plans to bring this same application to the Android market as they plan to share future exhibits through mobile applications. Download the iPhone app here.
Exhibit info:
Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962) is one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. He took the European art scene by storm in a prolific but brief career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962. The Hirshhorn is the opening venue for this landmark retrospective, co-organized with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibition features examples from all of Klein’s major series, including his Anthropometries, Cosmogonies, Fire Paintings, planetary reliefs and blue monochromes, as well as selections of his lesser-known gold monochromes, pink monochromes, sponge reliefs and immaterial works and examples of “Air Architecture.” The installation also presents arrays of ephemera that demonstrate the full extent of Klein’s creativity, including sketches, photographs, letters, writings and several films–both performances and documentaries.
Android has it’s fist mobile meeting app from the creators (Fuze Box) of the Fuze Messenger and Fuze Movie. It’s very basic. Simply login upload what content you want or need and you can meet with people practically anywhere.
Here are the key features for this app:
View desktop sharing – Android attendees gain an unprecedented ability to view meeting participants’ desktops, files and presentations on-the-go and in real-time, while synced with the meeting presenter. The viewing quality and precise synchronization set the standard for visual collaboration among smartphones.
Actively participate in media collaboration – Attendees are able to watch and listen to high-quality video and audio – start, stop and pause with the same level of functionality as meeting hosts have.
Contribute content with presenter functionality – Once the meeting host designates an Android attendee as a presenter, users can share video or image files by uploading directly from their device.
You have got to see this! Adobe’s Photoshop team has come up with an advance version of the healer tool that is, for all intents and purposes, “smart” and aware of the contents of the image. So when you want to correct or fill an area within an image, the tool automagically fixes it. Just whip out your magic wand tool, choose your area, say zippity zap, and in a snap your image is fixed! It cuts out what would usually take a ton of time to achieve conventionally.
Some of you may have heard of Miro, but just in case Miro is a a free open-source video player that was created by a non-profit organization that is apparently staunchly for the decentralization of internet video sharing and viewing. …I think I got that right. At any rate, I’m making it a point to bring this to light here because of the strong cultural push behind it. And the culture I speak of is this movement of people that really see the internet as a medium that should be an open and free environment that promotes the sharing of content. I think I really like this idea.
Additionally, Miro 3 has some new key features that you might find interesting.
It plays any video file.
Provides the most HD video
Easily grabs bittorrents
And…allows you to download YouTube video in HD, which I find to be totally rad!
That’s the long and short of it. Oh wait and it’s free!!! Download it here.
The long and short of the app is that it is a minimalist text edit tool that eliminates all windows, menus, etc with an ambient background and music (all of which can be changed or turned off if you so choose). I, for one, am the chief among all those that get distracted by the internet, my fun Mac apps, twitter, the book of faces, and other stuff I want but can’t afford. I’ve downloaded the application and it suites my needs.
Important FYI
The Beta v.2 is out and it allows auto-save (every 3 minutes) and word count. God knows how important these two things are for people. One more thing, it allows you to save your text document in Ommwriter format or a text file. ‘Nough said, right? You love it already! K great, go download it here.
Background Info
Ommwriter came to my attention when it popped up in my twitter stream courtesy of Brent Spore of iboughtamac.com and I find it to be absolutely amazing. It’s a free Mac-ONLY program (sorry PC owners, but keep hope alive) that was developed by Herraiz Soto & Co, a digital creative agency, based in Barcelona, Spain.
