Cloud Apps of the Week: What You’ll Want for the New Year As we close out 2011, here’s some information on a few last-minute applications that are sure to improve how you experience twenty twelve. Animoto Every season of winter holidays provides an avalanche of fodder that only an attractive video can capture best. But what to do if you haven’t won an Oscar for best editing? Turn to Animoto, an app that seamlessly creates vivid slideshows for the technologically challenged. Via the cloud, Animoto stores its customers’ videos for them to access from any device. Comparisons between this app
And the Cumulus Goes to…”: How the Cloud is Shaping the Oscars It’s that time of year again: Oscar season. “Tower Heist” and “Green Goblin” are shipping out of cineplexes, making way for far more prestigious film titles. I’ve always avidly followed the race to the Academy Awards, film buff that I am. Cloud lovers who could care less about cinema should check out flagship blogs on it all, such as Awards Daily or Thompson on Hollywood. But more importantly, they should consider the ways in which the cloud is influencing the pursuit of the little gold man. For one
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Webdoc Throws The Gauntlet To Facebook with Cloud Open Spaces for Social Expression Stock market analysts in the main world financial centers already voice concerns over the overvalued Facebook and Twitter and started asking questions whether these cloud-based services will trigger the next bubble in the IT industry. In the meantime, start-ups like webdoc.com are eager to grab market share in a lucrative market of social platforms aimed at consumers that increasingly share, create and store content in the Cloud. The Swiss-based Webdoc is a relatively young company, founded in 2009 by a group of serial entrepreneurs and geeks, and
Memonic Attacks Specific Markets with Its Cloud-based Personal Notebook Zurich-based start-up Nektoon Inc. was founded in 2009 to launch a new cloud-based service called Memonic and since then managed to become a popular online service in Europe. The company competes with services like Evernote, providing customers with a personal online notebook to store text, pictures, videos or sound they found in Internet. Memonic allows users to capture essential content of any web page, store it in their personal cloud-based notebook and access their accounts anytime through different devices. Actually, Memonic is a sort of Storage as a Service with extended
CloudTweaks is pleased to announce that we’ve been invited to attend The “HP Software Cloud Computing Tech Day” on September 9th and 10th, 2010. This event will take place at the HP campus in Cupertino, California and has been organized by the folks at Ivyworldwide.com. We are one of a select few cloud related sites offered this opportunity so we are very appreciative of this fact. We plan on keeping our readers updated via the CloudTweaks website as well as through Twitter during these 2 days. Some of the areas that will be covered will be listed here in the
