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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Technology

I'm overwhelmed by technology on a daily basis. As a young entrepreneur who offers "Web 2.0" services, I'm continually called upon to impress older people by my knowledge of things they've never heard of, but can act like they know all about. After discussing various Nokia phone concepts and things like Google Dodgeball ("Oh, you didn't know google does social networking? Then I bet you don't know about google money either..." and Microsoft Silverlight ("it's gonna kill flash, really, Microsoft says so!" "insert witty Vista reference from Oren here") I invariably have to bring forth my knowledge of mashup software and online video creation. The only problem is all sorts of things that in my mind have no right existing just keep popping up.

Last night, late night, my bandmate Carnegie and I were working on yet another music video, this time trying to use Omnisio to splice loops together from youtube. Frustrated by our inability to add music to what we created, we searched through fliptrack and competitors with no luck. An hour later I come back in the studio and Carnegie has discovered Flektor, a startup recently bought by Fox Interactive, who own MySpace. Still in beta, this allows free editing of any online video clips you can import the url of, and the addition of music, effects, pictures, your own content and complete control of fades, animations, zooms and variety of other professional video editing services, all from within your browser. When we started looking at mashup websites using Flektor I was just blown away. Bottom line, I can't keep track of all these and be proficient in them, it's like needing a google to manage your google... But anyway, I digress, and I made a suitably analog logo for a lounge in New York (still in development, not confirmed, but I like this concept enough to show) to complement my growing digital frustrations.