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Augmented Reality Glasses by Google

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:05:25 +0000

Cnet News reports about HUD, which stands for head-up displays and describes glasses equipped with hightech. After some month of rumours about the engagement of Google in this field now a prototype has been seen. The glasses are equipped with the Android OS known by smartphones and the functions do include maps and local services. [...]

Universal Messenger integrates Unified Messaging and Social Media

FOLDEN.INFO — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:34:53 +0000

Once again here comes a service needing creativity to describe it like it happened in the header by using universal messenger. It is Unified Inbox, a service combining unified messaging, which combines internet messaging and formats known by telecommunications aka email, fax and sms, and the access to various social networks as well as social [...]

Video Awards and Social Networking

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:33:30 +0000

Beat100 is a site where everyone may upload a video and may win prizes. It is all about user generated video and social networking. People may participate in current awards by uploading their videos and let others vote and favor. The site has two categories, music videos and lifestyle at all, which summarizes everything interesting [...]

Free P2P Search Engine and Search Engine Software

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:47:36 +0000

YaCy is a new search engine and search engine software. The software is based and working on the p2p principle, which means each user is a point in the network and by this one may use the search engine and contribute to it either on a private or even a company level. The idea is [...]

Live Streams of Music Concerts

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:08:43 +0000

The online music scene has a new topic, live streaming of music concerts. After some early birds focussing on broadcasting big events like livedome, meanwhile by the way also broadcasting sport events, and Baeble Music lately some new services have been launched. These do embrace trends of today, do include social networking and show artists [...]

The Video Social Network Kondoot

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:53 +0000

This is a great service to be the topic of the first post on a blog about online media in the new year. Kondoot is a social network totally based on video and furthermore with a great variety of video. It has a similar look like Facebook or Google+, but the whole communication is based [...]

Microsoft launches Social Network

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:40:25 +0000

It already has been more than rumors as the name so.cl has been mentioned, that Microsoft will launch a social network and now it happened. Regarding the big players this step came late. But on one hand Microsoft as a software company is different and on the other hand the company tries to compete with [...]

Nice and easy News Research Tool

FOLDEN.INFO — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:05:48 +0000

chaptur is a nice and easy to use news research tool. It is a clean interface with a form to submit a topic. Just after submitting a topic the relevant news will appear below the interface. Depending on the modus one chooses the news will stream slow or quickly or pause. Another nifty feature is [...]

Nanoblogging opposed to Microblogs with Media Sharing

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:52:26 +0000

Nanoblogging is the opposite to the lately introduced microblogging services webdoc and imgur with their mix media and photo sharing facilities. Nanoblogging is what the just started Hycku is offering. Whereas the messages may have 255 signs the length of a message is determinated to just seven words. This might be fun or just pragmatic [...]

Photo Sharing and Microblogging

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:30:56 +0000

It is just great what the minimalistic approach of microblogging makes possible. So just after the lately introduced microblogging service webdoc with its mix media format facilitating to make posts in a microsite style now follows a well designed microblogging services to share photos. This is imgur and it does attract attention by its photo [...]

Microblogging with Mix Media Sharing

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:08:34 +0000

Mix media sharing are the words webdoc uses itself to describe its new microblogging service. And I am not sure if microblogging is the right term to describe it as it is rather the opposite to Twitter and other minimalistic sharing services. But the style of the site is the same to typical microblogging and [...]

Virtual 3D Club and DJ World

FOLDEN.INFO — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:04:27 +0000

DJparty.fm is taking the idea of social music with synchronous listening like it is already known from console.fm, outloud.fm and turntable.fm to a next level. Opposed to the already known services, which do have a minimalistic interface suitable for social networking and sharing, DJparty.fm comes up with a whole virtual club world. Dj’s may be [...]

Content Discovery by Artificial Intelligence

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:17:05 +0000

With trap.it a new content discovery and research tool has been launched. The service uses artificial intelligence and works in real time. Using and setting up the service is most simple. After logging in by using Facebook or Twitter account data a brief tour starts introducing the service in three steps. Popular topics already are [...]

Using Android Apps on a Computer

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:08 +0000

Are you an Android user or have you always been curious how Android apps look and what one may do with them? Then BlueStacks has the right software for you. The BlueStacks software is an application running Android apps on a computer. Currently it works on Windows 7 and tablet computers and other systems may [...]

Video Recorder for Online Video

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:10:24 +0000

PlayLater is an innovative application to record online video streams, a digital video recorder software to record online video. The application is created by PlayOn already known for its software to make internet video accessible on various devices like tv sets or game consoles. So to PlayOn it is an enhancement to its own application, [...]

Documentory about the Networked World

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:17:59 +0000

Ericsson Multimedia has published a documentory film about the networked world, which is giving an astonishing outlook. This statement tells that until 2020 we will experience a greater change than it happened within the last 50 years. The astonishing thing is that within the last 50 years we experienced the development of the internet making [...]

New Photo Camera Design for Light Field Photography

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:13:11 +0000

This summer Lytro has announced a new photo technology, the light field technology, a technology revolutionary as the appearance and design of the now introduced camera itself. The light field technology enables to make a photo of a whole volume and by this focussing and zooming an object happens after making the photo. This has [...]

Live Online Shows with Voting

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:30:20 +0000

YouNow.com launched a service with a new live streaming concept, with is something like a mix of personal broadcasting and online casting. Like a typical personal broadcasting service YouNow enables to establish an own channel to go live on the internet. What is different are the features at the homepage, which are not ranked by [...]

QR Codes for Social Media Profiles

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:05:25 +0000

QRLme is more than just a qr code generator to enable someone to scan the code to get particular information about one site. It is an aggregator service for social media profiles, which is providing a profile page to list links of various social media profiles. By this the service is offering an easy way [...]

Music Bookmarking and Playlists

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:33:40 +0000

To create music playlists out of music bookmarks is what musicplayr does. It is an aggregator and bookmarking service for music websites, which automaticly creates music playlists out of the bookmarks. The bookmarking in combination with the automated creation of music playlists is facilitated for Soundcloud and YouTube and probably most interestingly for common music [...]

Micro Video and Video Status Updates

FOLDEN.INFO — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:34:21 +0000

About two years ago within the article Status Updates with Videos this blog reported about robo.to, a service enabling video to be used for avatars and to put a short message within the video. Now Keek comes up with a similar micro video service with similar functions. The service enables to share short videos both [...]

Photo and Video Aggregator

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:45:00 +0000

Pixable is a photo and video aggregator service gathering photos and videos from various social networks. The service has basic functions like top videos and videos of the day and most interestingly it is able to gather the photos and videos of friends published on different social networks. Using common subscribe or following functions the [...]

Online Voice Recording and Sharing

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:24:09 +0000

QWiPS is as easy to use as comfortable. It is an online voice recorder enabling to most easily record a message by using a microphone connected to a computer. Furthermore the online recorder is designed for the social web by providing a link to share recorded messages or to add the audio recording to other [...]

Online Live Music Video Portal

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:12:34 +0000

Stageit is a further live video streaming service, but different to the lately introduced personal broadcasting and video chat service Yowie. The service broadcasts live music performances, which might be concerts or more private sessions out of studios or even out of the home of musicians. This is up to the musicians and for sure [...]

Live Streaming and Personal Broadcasting with Video Chat

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:11:48 +0000

Yowie is a new kind of personal broadcasting service enabling everyone to launch a broadcasting channel on the internet and to go live with an own show. What makes Yowie special is its combination of personal broadcasting with video chat. Opposed to other live streaming aka personal broadcasting services like the popular ustream.tv, which mostly [...]

Google+ is out of Beta and available to all now

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:02:43 +0000

Just in the case you missed it, Google+ now is out of beta and available to all. After about 12 weeks in beta, which is a rather short time span but seems to be long by the popularity of the service, everyone may register to the Google social network. Joining the network simply happens by [...]

Augmented Reality Browser

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:23:33 +0000

Aurasma is the name of a new augmented reality browser available for the installation on smartphones. Whereas the service is mentioned for the first time at this place, it seems already be popular according to the media coverage and its 2 million members mentioned at the homepage. The functions are similar to the ar browser [...]

Worldwide Social Network for Art

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:51:22 +0000

myArtmap has launched its worldwide network for art. Opposed to most other already existing art sites, which often have a character of virtual exhibitions, online galleries or museums and do concentrate on business and selling, myArtmap.de is bringing the social networking aspect to the art world by inviting both people interested in art and professionals, [...]

Social Networking by Themes

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:52:49 +0000

Most social networks do focus on persons and their communication, but with a trend toward more theme related communications already. Twitter even includes the opportunity to follow particular themes by monitoring hashtags and Facebook just now integrates new functions enabling to follow updates without being a friend with someone. And a couple of lately launched [...]

Video Playlists by Twitter App

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:30:45 +0000

The music video sharing service reelr.tv is based on Twitter and offers an ingenious easy to use and most effectful tool to create music video playlists and an own music video broadcasting channel. Using the service happens by a Twitter account name and after joining just a message including the artist, a title and the [...]

Synchronous Video Watching and Chat for Facebook Friends

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:58:12 +0000

To Facebook friends Chill offers a new service to watch videos synchronous and to chat while watching. By this the service has the character of the here already more often described video show rooms, where participants may either join publicly available chat rooms or create an own chat room to watch just with friends while [...]

Sounds for eBooks

FOLDEN.INFO — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:37:53 +0000

eBooks, electronic books available on various devices, are already a lot and first of all these books may be multimedial. Multimedia is indeed the right term, because beside the format book itself any kind of media may become integrated, images and even updated images, music and video. Rather there are new genres coming up like [...]

Augmented Reality Browser with Scan Function

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:24:58 +0000

The augmented reality company metaio has released version 3.0 of its junaio browser. The junaio browser may be installed on smartphones and enables to receive information of surrounding objects of the real world by a mobile phone cam. The up to date version of the browser enables to get information of any real world objects, [...]

Independent Film Portal

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:12:16 +0000

onlinefilm.org is a portal and platform for independent films. The service is offering online streams and downloads, which in part are free or available against a small fee. The films provided are uploaded directly by filmmakers, who will find further information to upload their films here. The films available are of various genres as well [...]

First Social Media Aggregators integrate Google+

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:43:12 +0000

Google+ has been described as the fastest growing social network ever and despite of still being far behind of Facebook regarding the reach its millions of users of course are a remarkable large user base already. This leads to the creation of first social media aggregators serving Google+ users to easily manage the use in [...]

Internet Radio with Podcasts

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:05:30 +0000

The internet radio site RadioMee is offering a broad choice of international radio channels and podcasts. The about 10000 radio channels and 6000 podcasts are accessible by categories, regions and countries. The member community is equipped with further tools like chat and the opportunity to add own favorite channels or podcasts. Professional broadcasters by the [...]

Facebook launches new Messenger

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:52:34 +0000

Facebook has launched a new messenger for smartphones. According to a new website the messenger enables to receive messages immediately, to chat with friends and to locate others. To introduce the new app Facebook has announced a live streaming event on Tuesday 10 pm happening on its on internet tv channel Facebook Live. To get [...]

Connect and Locate Friends by Messaging

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:04:46 +0000

Calling it a messenger with localization function might be the easiest way to describe Conchain. The service is offering a chat facility to connect with friends and others with the latter giving the service a touch of a social network. So one may use the service to chat with friends and to find new. The [...]

News Sharing Service Digg launches Realtime News

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:35:20 +0000

Digg, one of the first social media sites specialized on sharing of technology news, has introduced a new function called Digg Newswire. Opposed to the already existing Top News function working near realtime the newswire is bringing up information in realtime. Additionally there are various functions to personalize the service. This may happen by topics [...]

Music Social Networking with synchronous Listening

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:30:17 +0000

Listening to music synchronous seems to become a main feature to music social networks. Lately two webbased music players with chat functions have been introduced here for private music sharing and listening and now some music sharing services do offer the same. At first there is console.fm, which is rather an internet radio and music [...]

Universal File Sharing Service for Web and Mobile

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:01:37 +0000

The current internet era may be called the next level era as many services do improve already existing technologies or integrate social networking features. So does Minus, a universal file sharing service with universal meaning to be universal in various ways. The functions of Minus do enable file sharing on both the web as well [...]

Getting Apps on the Computer Screen

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:56:02 +0000

Lately Pokki has launched to bring the experience of apps to the computer screen. To get the experience a software is provided and a directory of apps. By the installation of the software the particular apps make online services available on the screen directly without the need to run a browser. Beside the easy access [...]

Free DJ Mixes and Party Playlists

FOLDEN.INFO — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:55:29 +0000

A lot of free electronic music of various genres from acid jazz to techno is available at mix.dj. The site is a dj community and provides uploaded dj mixes as streams and a a web player to be integrated at other sites. The music is assorted within a directory, by charts and beside the free [...]

Online Music Player to listen to Music together

FOLDEN.INFO — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:34:02 +0000

Online video show rooms to watch videos together already often have been a topic here, like the introduction of YouTube Social. Possibly because of the lack of technological standards such applications foremost now become available to listen music together. But opposed to video show rooms, these apps are not able to fetch online resouces and [...]

The RockMelt Social Browser

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:08:18 +0000

RockMelt is a new browser optimized for social networking and available now to the public for download after its beta phase. The great advantages beside modern technology and speed are lying in the social media integration. This enables to view status updates of friends and favorites directly within the browser, to respond to posts and [...]

Live Internet TV on Video Gaming

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:05:56 +0000

Fans of video games will have fun with the internet tv services Twitch TV and own3D.tv, which do broadcast the best video gaming events live on the internet for free. Both services aim to show the best video game competitions, which also are described by esports. own3D has already been founded in 2009 and offers [...]

Administration of Digital Signs and Badges

FOLDEN.INFO — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:26:13 +0000

Internet users increasingly present themselves within online profiles and personal as well as official information, which is accompanied by personal and official signs like avatars, logos and even official signs. Basno now offers a service to administrate such signs and even to create new ones. Like an aggregator Basno enables people to represent themselves with [...]

New Photo Technology

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:18:29 +0000

A new photo technology is announced by Lytro. The technology concerns light fields and it means that by making a photo using a Lytro camera a whole volume or spectrum becomes photographed. The consequence is that one is able to take a photo by a snap and to make changes to the photo like zooming [...]

Make your own Flash Game

FOLDEN.INFO — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:34:58 +0000

Stencyl lets everyone create their own flash game without the need of programming skills. Opposed to some other services Stencyl is a software, which is free available for download. The software eases the creation of a game by drap and drop facilities. But despite of being a software the application is equipped with collaboration facilities [...]

How the Google Chrome Browser will speed up Search

FOLDEN.INFO — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:16:20 +0000

Google introduced a new feature to display the pages underlying the search results immediately. The function is called Instant Pages and will be made feasible by a function build in the Google Chrome browser. Technically the browser will prerender the underlying pages to make them available immediately. Currently the function is still in development, but [...]