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Scrapblog
Here's a new Web app that will knock you flat: Scrapblog. In development since last year, the site finally went public on Monday, April 2. It's a service for creating online multimedia packages, in particular, collections of photos and videos. As you might gather from the name, its designers want to deliver a level of flexibility that's similar to what you get when you're building a real-world scrapbook. With Scrapblog, it's easy to place photos anywhere on a page, rotate them, crop them, and so on. The same for videos--but so far, you can get video in only via YouTube URLs. You can also set presentations to music (Scrapblog's canned selections only so far), and set transitions between pages. You can then embed your presentation in a blog or a social network page.
Vuvox
Vuvox is a drop-dead gorgeous online application that makes sharp multimedia presentations. Users import their photos and videos, and then can place them in interactive templates (like street scenes, photo walls, and so on). The presentations can then be embedded in MySpace (of course) or other sites. It's designed for kids, who are used to the high production values of MTV and the like. It really does look like it can take snapshots and lousy videos and tart them up to a high degree of slickness. VuVox has sparked our interest as we research web file sharing and presentation systems.
Security and Safety Online
Safe Web-surfing tools such as McAfee SiteAdvisor and Netcraft Toolbar scan thousands of Web sites daily,
pronouncing some safe, some suspicious, and some dangerous. Phishers (fraudsters, online criminals,
apply your own appropriate term), tired of having their creations on a blacklist, are now circling back behind these tools and,
when possible, compromising sites with a familiar hacking technique that has
been known for several years to inject dangerous Java-Script on these sites previously marked as safe.
The short term result is that you unknowingly visit a compromised site and come away with a back door Trojan horse
installed on your desktop. The long-term result is that these vandals undermine our mutual trust of the Web.
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