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Friday, May 16, 2008

Using web tools to collaborate between creatives.

Wisdom from the masses

Picassa Web Albums

This is a free web album hosting solution from Google. This really only fits the most basic needs of the original request: create a “group scrapbook.” With a free Google account, you can upload images to a central album that can be viewed by anyone you invite to see your album. This is cheap and easy. That’s about it. You get about a gig of free storage. There’s really no way to collaborate here. It’s just a method for a group of people to see the same images and videos.

Check it out here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/home

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Hi Steve,

I am a collaboration blogger for a company called Octopz and a mediamaker with a film and video background, so I think I can chime in here with an additional, albeit biased, suggestion.

You and other film and video pros might want to have a look at our web-based collaboration software service at Octopz.com.

In a nutshell, Octopz allows a filmmaker or videographer to collaborate with clients and colleagues throughout the whole cycle of a project, from brainstorming, storyboarding, scripting and visualization right through to final cut and client approval.

It is a fully integrated web collaboration service that is specifically designed for creative pros, including filmmakers and videographers. In fact, our support for rich media, video and 3D is one of the key areas that distinguish us from other similar offerings which are geared more to print or web designers.

We are also the only fully released service (not alpha or beta) in this category of visual collaboration software to fully support integrated text, voice an video chat.

All anyone needs to use Octopz, on a PC, Mac or Linux, is a popular web-browser (Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and the Adobe Flash plug-in.

Octopz is not a free service, but it compares very well with other services that have similar capabilities, like Adobe Connect Professional.

A 15-day trial account is available on our website and I would be happy to meet you and any other PVC writers and readers in an Octopz room to go through its capabilities, and more importantly, to get any feedback you or others might have on our service.

For more on Octopz, including acclaim, awards and posts on creative collaboration you can visit the blog I edit at thepond.octopzlive.com

Best,

geo

Posted by geoperdis  on  05/21  at  08:37 AM

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