EndPlay, Inc, announced the release of its live streaming solution for mobile, built on the EndPlay Web Content Management (WCM) Platform. The Scripps Television Station Group is the first EndPlay customer to deploy EndPlay’s mobile live streaming solution to be streamed directly to all smartphone and tablet devices.
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Multimedia integration with Moodle now made quick and easy with Packt's latest book
Packt is delighted to announce Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook, which aims at helping users learn how to add photographs, videos, animations, and much more to make their Moodle course even more interactive without the need to read through long tutorials. Written by Silvina P. Hillar, the book provides a plethora of recipes showing how to manage, link, and embed different multimedia resources into a Moodle course.
Press Association delivers live syndicated coverage of the Royal Wedding with Scribble Technologies
Extended strategic partnership enhances real-time element to digital coverage
Virtusa Launches Media Convergence Solution Accelerator
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.– Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU), a global IT services company that offers a broad spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, today introduced its new enterprise content management (ECM) offering, the Media Convergence Solution Accelerator. Modeled after Virtusa’s success implementing interactive Web platforms for the world’s leading media brands, the new service combines best practices consulting with proven technology components to ensure a consistent, branded user
Fuzzle CMS brings Flash-sites to the masses
Fuzzle CMS (http://fuzzle-cms.com) is a promising Flash CMS developed by a group of Russian programmers. The system is claimed to be an extra easy way for creating Flash websites thanks to visual content management. Note, Fuzzle’s website is also made with this CMS.
Advantages of Flash and HTML in one system
A content management system (CMS) is a set of tools that lets you create and maintain your website's content without knowing anything about programming. Fuzzle is a CMS for creating and managing Flash web sites that differs from regular HTML sites mainly by their presentational abilities: Flash technology allows incorporating complex animations and reach multimedia content. However, Flash sites are considered to have such disadvantages as longer time of development (therefore more cost), harder updating, bad search engines ranking. Fuzzle is breaking these stereotypes!
WYSIWYG site maintenance and other Fuzzle features
At the moment a stable version 3.6 of Fuzzle CMS is issued. It has the following main features:
- multilinguality;
- simple management (convenient visual editing is based on blocks placement );
- design integration from a draft within 5 minutes (Flash knowledge is not required);
- SEO support (HTML version auto generation, DeepLinking support);
- continuously replenished Widget Store availability;
- availability of a simple open API for external developers.
Mailbag: MediaCore
Last week, CMS Report received an email regarding a new CMS that focuses on managing multimedia content. The application is written in Python so naturally we're going to talk to let our readers know about this new platform.
I'm not sure if you guys have covered this yet, but as a regular reader of cmsreport.com I thought I would let you know.
Earlier this month my company launched a new Open Source python based CMS focused on video and podcasting.
http://getmediacore.com/
MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform. MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.
Let me know if you guys need any further information on the project. Right now we are just trying to get the word out about it.
Cheers,
Stuart
New Joomla! multimedia book
Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, a new book that will help developers build media-rich Joomla! websites by learning to embed and display multimedia content.
Book review of Moodle 1.9 Multimedia
I've used Moodle for about four years, and in that time I've found it to be an exceptionally useful, high-functioning and user-friendly learning management system (LMS). In my view, the one deficiency in its suite of resources is that it is less than intuitive 
in the way it enables administrators, teachers, and learners to create, integrate, manage, and deliver images, audio, video, animations and other media types.
Enter Packt Publishing's Moodle 1.9 Multimedia by João Pedro Soares Fernandes.
I opened my copy of the text with a high expectation that it would be an informative and practical reference text. Why? Packt Publishing have been providing Moodle reference books for some time now, and their texts are usually either very good or excellent.
Now read on...
Enhance your E-Learning Course Experience with New Moodle Book from Packt
Moodle has evolved from an academic project to the world's most popular virtual learning environment. It is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develop additional functionality.
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia is a new book from Packt that helps Moodle users integrate multimedia elements effectively. With this book, written by Joao Pedro Soares Fernandes, readers will create instructional materials and utilize Moodle resources and cutting-edge tools to interact with their audience.
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia provides complete information about the integration of multimedia elements such as audio clips, links to pages off-site, YouTube videos, and animations to an e- learning course. Users will learn how to create and edit images, drawings, and screenshots, which can be blended into their e-learning courses. Basic procedures to create and convert various learning video formats or download and publish videos from online video-sharing services will be explained.
With this book, users will create multimedia elements such as interactive floor planners, online maps, and timelines using Web 2.0 tools. Multimedia elements can be integrated in quizzes and lessons to make e-learning courses more interactive. They will also learn how to use software such as HotPotatoes and JClic to assess interactive exercises that are created and blended in the Moodle course. Real-time applications such as the Online Phone service and Desktop Sharing will help students interact on a common Moodle platform.
Finding free multimedia for your site
I was just thinking the other day how nice it would be to find a list of places for free stock images that could be used to spice up things at my sites. Then comes along this article at Mashable, 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog. I love it when things work out this way.
Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers’ eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.
Please feel free to add your own list of legitimate sources of free multimedia in the comments form below.
Five IT books on my 2009 reading list
I seem to collect a number of books each year. A few of the books I receive from publishers with intent to review or as appreciation for my involvement with events related to content management systems. Other books just peak my interest so I can't help but buy them for my personal library. The following are five books I plan to read in 2009 and are available in CMS Report's Amazon Store.
Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Windborn
Users loading Drupal for the first time usually have two surprises. The first surprise is that Drupal's core lacks a rich text editor (no WYSIWYG). Although you can use a RTE via a contributed module...it is still a surprise to most new users. The second surprise is that the core also doesn't provide much support for images and other forms of multimedia. This book will help the reader navigate through many of the contributed media modules available at Drupal.org and pick the right one for the right project. I'm only half way through the book and finding myself trying out modules I likely would never have used without this book.
Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé
I haven't bought a new Python book since 2001 and felt it was time to try another. I'm more of a dabbler than a programmer, but it is always good to have reference books like these nearby.
Create Media-Rich Websites with New Drupal Book
Packt is pleased to announce a new book that helps developers to create, customize and blend images, videos, and audio into their Drupal website. Written by Content Management expert Aaron Winborn, Drupal Multimedia teaches users to integrate multimedia and contribute modules for a Drupal website.
Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.
This book will help developers to contribute modules for adding media, store and display images in any configuration, scale and crop images with ImageCache, and add effects to their images on a Drupal website. They will also learn to create thumbnail overlays with jQuery and custom audio fields.
Along with focusing on customizing images, this book will help readers learn to add and manipulate videos using the File Field module, use Views, embed Media Field, and other tools to make embedded videos easier. This book will also help tackle media problems from the content editors, administrators, and developers point of view.
This book will provide information for administrators and professional website developers who are required to integrate multimedia into their Drupal website. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information please visit http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book
Six factors that will decide the fate of Silverlight
ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of
Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it
enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.
Linux.com: Why Flash 9 for Linux is taking so long
"Adobe skipped a version of Flash for Linux and released stable versions of the Flash 9 player for Windows and Mac OS X long before the beta of Flash 9 to Linux users. Paul Betlem, senior director of engineering for Adobe, explained why the process is taking so long."
Gallery Community and new Theme Showcase
"In January of this year we set up a separate forum category for 3rd party modules and themes, in July we added a Gallery 2 Demo Sites showcase, and the list on the user contributions page on the Codex (our official documentation site) has been steadly growing since it went live over a year ago. Gallery just wouldn't be what it is without the hard work of users just like you. Thanks! Related to your hard work, we have some fun things up our sleeves for you to look forward to in the next couple of months: your plugins and themes downloadable from inside of Gallery 2.2, a theme competition, and maybe a surprise or two :).
The most recent contribution we would like to highlight is Joe7's Gallery Theme Demo. It's a very neat site that let's you apply various Gallery 2 Themes, Image Frames, and Color Packs to one Gallery install to see how they might look on your site before downloading them. Thanks Joe7!"
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