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Get Latest Updates and News on Wide Array of Topics Using LazyFeed
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 8th, 2009
Lazyfeed is a new service that lets you get live updates on every topic you care about.
How It Works?
You don’t have to subscribe to RSS feeds in LazyFeed. You can simply select topics manually or type tag or single-word search term, and LazyFeed will return videos, photos, and blog posts tagged with that term.
It indexes about 100,000 of the most popular blogs and organizes posts by topic. The hottest topics, as determined by related tags, pop up to the top.
Features of LazyFeed
Monitor
As you first start using Lazyfeed, you will have your own space called “Monitor”. You can even add as many topics as you like to your Monitor and watch live updates on those topics.
Tile
Each topic you add will look like a tile that updates itself automatically. When there’s new content on a topic, the tile will turn yellow and update itself.
Browser
Each tile when pressed, will open up a live update page for the topic. These pages will open in an internal browser, where all contents are sorted by time.
Worth 1000 - Image Manipulation and Contest Website for Digital Artists
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on August 28th, 2009
Worth 1000 is an online community of digital artists where they can use their skills to manipulate images for the respect of others. They can even earn cash prizes by participating in daily photo contests.
The contest themes can be anything, from film posters mash-ups to creating new animals, from modernizing classical paintings to inventing new sports.
Features of Worth1000
If you have a registered account, you can join the contests by adding your work. You can even rank other artists work.
You can submit entries either using their online photo-editing software, or you can upload images from their desktop if you’d rather use software like Photoshop or Gimp.
In addition to photos, they host contests for multimedia, and text writing that follows a similar format.
Learn New Skills with Worth1000 Forum
The Worth1000 website has a large community and hosts many forums. You can have general discussions on any topic or discussions on techniques for the various types of contests. As there are active Admins and a word-filter that monitors the forums, a high level of control exists.
Company Insight
Worth1000.com was designed by Aviary, a New York company that ‘is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing’.
Their founders included Avi Muchnick and Israel Derdik. Muchnick named it after the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
Polar Rose - Face Recognition Service For Flickr Photos
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on May 9th, 2009
Polar Rose is a facial recognition service for photos on Flickr. The site’s mission is to enhance the user experience of digital media by adding meaning to photos and video by recognizing people in them.
How it Works ?
The site uses Facebook connect and thus it takes less than a minuter to create a account on Polar Rose. After this the service imports the photos from Flickr.
Once the import is complete, select the Name button to start naming the faces that Polar Rose has identified. As you start to type, PolarRose auto-dig through your Facebook contacts or site contacts to help you name the selected face.
The technology behind Polar Rose creates a virtual 3D image of a person, factoring out lighting and other conditions that can affect recognition. That 3D image is then used to try to guess when a person appears in a photo.
ClosR - Simplest way to Share and Zoom your Images
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 15th, 2009
ClosR - Keeps Image Quality Unaltered for Any level of Zoom
ClosR is an online service which allows you to upload high resolution pictures and make them zoomable and browsable without requiring the user any large bandwidth.
ClosR Widgets
Once you are done with uploading and editing the image Closr.it generates a URL that you can send to friends as well as a widget that you can embed on your site.
You can also share it across various networks like blogging, bookmarking, and social networking sites. That way, they can either see a thumbnail, or zoom way in and drag to look at different parts of your image.
The widget also has some other useful functions like a full-screen button and a button that resets the photo to its starting size. It also eliminates the need to copy paste images which spoils the picture upon zooming in or other alterations.
The creators of this service are Daniele Galiffa and Gabriele Venier.
Check out one of Gajeebo widgets on Closr
PhotoPrintsandGifts - Online Photo Printing and Gifts Portal
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on February 12th, 2009
This online photo storage and print solutions portal contain almost all the features a site working in this domain model requires to have.
The contests can help lure photo enthusiasts and unlimited photo storage again can be used as an attraction.
The mobile upload and share option is something we would like to specifically mention, as in India, mobile is being used a lot to capture some precious moments.
Mocodile - Send any Document from Your PC to Any Mobile Worldwide
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on January 17th, 2009
An appliction to send docs, photos, audio and other content to mobile from your computer. Is it a joke? No it isnt. Mocodile with its patent pending technology makes it possible for you.
We seriously bet that this mobile application has great future in coming times. Just download the software on your personal computer and enjoy this facility.
Animoto - Create Music Videos Slideshows from User-Uploaded Music and Photos.
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 12th, 2009
Animoto helps you create a animated film using your photos, music and some cool features.
Animoto - Create Music Videos Slideshows from User-Uploaded Music and Photos.
It creates MTV style videos with the click of a button. Users simply choose a song and images. The app then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two videos are ever the same.
It generates videos using its own patent pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design drives the web app.
The Cinematic A.I. analyzes users photos and music like an actual director and editor. For instance, to analyze music the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals are all taken into consideration.
Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. Once completed, videos can be emailed, downloaded and embedded into other sites.
Animoto allows users to create short, 30 second slideshows for free but charges if you want to create longer videos. For personal use, Animoto costs $3 per video or $30 for a full year of use.
It also offers business accounts that run $249 a year and include value-added features such as DVD quality outputs and customized buttons. It also has a pretty awesome iPhone application.
The site recently won the SXSW web award in the “Film/TV” category.
visit website - http://animoto.com/
PhotoJoy - Do Magic with Your Pictures | Create Collages wallpapers , Animated widgets and 3D Screensavers
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on January 2nd, 2009
PhotoJoy is a free downloadable application that uses your photos to produce neat desktop widgets, 3D photo screensavers and wallpaper collages.
You can either use photos located on your computer, or ones uploaded to your Flickr account. PhotoJoy can also use your Flickr stream to keep your photos fresh.
Do Magic with Your Pictures | Create Collages wallpapers , Animated widgets and 3D Screensavers.
With Photojoy you can do lots of very cool stuff with your photos.
Uploading your photos to PhotoJoy is quick and simple. You can choose to upload photos saved on your computer or any photos from your Flickr account.
In addition, PhotoJoy also offers a Web streaming option that automatically updates your PhotoToys (their widget), screensavers and wallpaper collages with new photos from Flickr as soon as they become available.
PhotoJoy runs well on most Windows setups, but Mac is not supported right now.
visit website - http://www.photojoy.com/
Indyarocks - Entertainment Based Social Network in India
Posted by ilovegajeebo in startups on December 17th, 2008
IndyaRocks is a social network cum entertainment portal. The site really impresses in the very first looks and has a lot of interesting content for the visitors to get lured in.
The overall feel of the site is great as various sections categorizes the content beautifully. Though the site is almost 2 years old now but the content looks very fresh and ever changing.
Snapily - Create Your Own 3D and Animated Prints
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on December 16th, 2008
Snapily.com is the place online where consumers can add special effects to their personal photos, transforming ordinary pictures into electrifying and dynamic creations for almost the same price as standard photo products.
The startup however is quite different from other customizable stationary and business card services, meaning that its feature leave others far behind.
Snapily - Create Your Own 3D and Animated Prints
Using Snapily’s proprietary technology, consumers can easily add “special effects” such as 3D, Flip, Morph and printed video clips on a variety of photo products, including greeting cards, scrapbook pages, business cards and personal fun cards, invitations and thank you cards; and notebooks.
The feature of 3D effect separates the backdrop from the foreground, on the cards, creating a morph effect, while you can also mash up two separate photos to make a 3D effect, sort of like switching between two photos.
The printing technique that Snapily uses on the cards is known as lenticular printing, in simple words, makes a 3D effect on the cards. Though you have to make a bulk purchase to own these cards, as Snapily does not allow one-off purchases – but that feature is soon to come as well, where users can buy a single product of their choice on a price range that’s affordable.
Pricing itself is detailed in the corresponding part of the site, and different packages are available for you to choose the one that will suit you best. Snapily products start at $3.99. Lastly, the site also features a gift wizard that makes finding the right present for the right person an effortless task.
visit website - http://www.snapily.com/
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