Published January 6th, 2009
Snap Group Ltd. has published a new web-based graphics editor - SUMO Paint. SUMO paint offers advanced tools for image editing. You do not need to make investments to use it, all You need is a computer and an internet connection. SUMO Paint is a free image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images online with powerful tools and layer support. It is the best and the most user friendly image editing and drawing application online. SUMO Paint is really fast to load and use from any operating system and browser that supports Flash.
You can find all the basic functions needed in drawing and image editing. In addition You an find many advanced tools for professional editing. With these tools You can create works of art with a couple of brush draws. You don’t have to be an artist to create impressive creations. You can create, edit and save images to your own computer or to your SUMO account. You simply put http://www.sumopaint.com/app or http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint/index.php?id=0 in your address bar and watch a fully functional program load right before your eyes. No need to install anything.
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Published December 8th, 2008
“Warranty Approved” is the latest commercial created by Curious Projects for Oil Changers. Currently aring in Ontario on CTV, A-Cannel, CKWS and other stations, “Warranty Approved” is animated using Flash, Anime Studio Pro and After Effects.
Check back soon for a “making of” for this commercial.
Click below to watch the commercial…
http://www.curiousprojects.com/tv/oilchangers_warranty.html
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Published December 8th, 2008
Network Transformation across Service Provider, Business and Home Networks to Enable New Forms of Communication, Entertainment, and Collaboration
SAN JOSE, December 8, 2008 - Cisco today introduced new technologies and solutions that will enable Internet Protocol (IP) networks to become the platform for a new generation of video and rich media applications and services. This new class of technologies is designed to enable advanced communications, collaboration and entertainment experiences through video- and rich media-optimized service provider, business, and home networks, known as “medianets.”
Data-based communications are being replaced by video and rich media, which is straining the architectural foundations of both public and private networks serving consumers and businesses. This network transformation toward rich media-optimized networks is the driver behind Cisco’s video strategy and represents Internet networking’s growing impact on the daily lives of consumers and professionals alike.
“The Internet and IP networks as we know them are changing,” said Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies group. “In the near future, 90 percent of consumer network traffic will be video and rich media, and new medianet technologies and devices will drive the evolution not only to new networks, but immersive new experiences made possible by combining video, rich media, voice and data on a single networked platform. As businesses look to reduce costs and increase productivity, medianet solutions will enable new methods of networked collaboration and virtualization, such as seamless language translations over Cisco TelePresence, which will eliminate communication barriers in the workplace.”
To read more about the Cisco medianets and what they means for online video click here …
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Published November 22nd, 2008
If Google delivers irrelevant search results, people can just erase them and not see them again.
That’s possible under a new system Google Inc. unveiled Thursday. Hoping to give its search engine a more personal touch, Google now lets users reshuffle results so their favourite websites get top billing and disliked destinations get discarded the next time they enter the same request.
It marks the first time the Internet’s most popular search engine has allowed its audience to alter the order of search results.
Although the revisions won’t affect Google’s closely guarded formulas for ranking websites, the company isn’t ruling out eventually tapping into collective wisdom of the crowds to tweak its Internet-searching algorithms.
For now, Google simply wants to make specific sets of results more useful to each individual that comes to its search engine, said vice-president, search products and user experience Marissa Mayer. Users will have to have a personal login to take advantage of the editing feature.
“It should make the search results more dynamic,” she said.
The decision to let people tinker with their results is a tacit acknowledgment that not even Google’s seemingly omniscient search engine can possibly divine which websites will appeal to specific users. It also underscores how frequently people use Google to search for the same thing, such as “San Francisco hotels,” over and over again.
Google’s search recipe relies so heavily on automated ingredients that a variety of startup rivals such as Mahalo, Hakia and ChaCha have tried to carve out a new niche by relying on humans to vet and point to results.
But none of those have made a dent in a market that is increasingly controlled by Google, which processes more than 60% of the search requests made around the world.
Here’s how the new system, called SearchWiki, works. If you’re logged into Google when doing a search, you’ll get results with a series of buttons below the links. Clicking on an arrow pointing upward moves a result higher on the results page. That link will come back in that new spot the next time you search on the same term. Clicking on an “X” will delete the link so it doesn’t appear the next time you make the same search.
view full article here…
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Published November 22nd, 2008
Curious Projects works with many top Canadian broadcasters, including ROGERS, CTV, A-CHANNEL and more, to ensure your tv commercials reach your target audience.
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Published November 21st, 2008
MailChimp makes email marketing powerful, easy and fun!.
Learn more at: www.mailchimp.com
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Published June 11th, 2008
Rogers TV Listings - 30 seconds - click here to view
Using motion graphics and 3d animation, Curious Projects produced the new branding commercial for Rogers TV Listings channel which is currently airing throughout Canada.
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Published June 2nd, 2008
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