i cant seem to login to spinxpress and request new passwd isnt sending me anything. i cant see where to register a new username either.
On 12 Mar 2007 16:48:06 -0700, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > > I guess its a subject that comes up quite often here, and yet I never > > ending up recording much progress on that front. I know a stock answer > > has become 'use spinxpress' and clearly it must work and be good > > because it comes recommended by some people who will ahve used it for > > such purposes. As I havent used it myself I remain pretty ignorant > > about exactly what it offers beyond peer2peer filesharing, anybody got > > a few moments to elaborate on how it fits into the process, and what > > sort of collaborative processes fit well with this tool? > > > > I am so glad you asked. Thanks Steve :) > > Folks like Ryan Hodson, Jay Dedman and Michael Verdi have shared much > of what they have learned working on collaborative projects like > AliveInBaghdad, Sawjana and Freevlog. They have documented much of > their experiences and best practices on various wikis and vlogs. We > have asked them to help us build great tools for use in distributed > media production. We have also been working with vloggers like Adam > and Erik of WreckAndSalvage, Jan of the FauxPress, Josh Paul, JD Lasica > and many others to better understand issues related to collaborative > vlogging in particular. > > This may be old hat for many, but generally speaking, people have an > idea and start communicating face2face, on IM, voice/video or via > email. Often a team sets up an email list or group like this. Maybe a > wiki too. Usually, for us, there's a vlog involved (and possibly an > entire website to admin). Maybe there are other related sites and > services (e.g., to do lists, feeds, video hosting, audio or video > conferences, etc.). Needless to say, there are lots of great tools, > services and resources a group can tie into these days. Clips and > knowledge gets shared, people edit or augment, share back and review. > Iterate. Eventually, a finished result is published (often in several > formats and to several hosting and aggregator sites). In many cases, > different team members contribute complementary skills and carry out > different steps in the workflow. Standard practices evolve and are > documented and passed on. > > The problem is: Multiply that times several interesting project groups > over time. It quickly becomes a lot to keep track of. We can help > with that. Instead of hunting through tons of emails, feeds or > bookmarks, we are using open-source tools to turn p2p file and metadata > sharing into a sort of "glue" for pulling together distributed > production teams and their resources. As Jan might say: "it's not > rocket science, but then again, it's not exactly brushing your teeth > either". We try to make it drag & drop and point & click simple. > > At this time, we support three basic collaborative activities: get, > share and publish. > > "Get" helps locate Creative Commons licensed media from places like the > Ourmedia/Internet Archive and from within SpinXpress itself. We are > also working with several other sites to include access to more media. > We spend a fair amount of time talking to people about making their > feeds and APIs' more search friendly. > > "Share" refers to sharing media, bookmarks, metadata and ideas. The p2p > feature you mentioned is part of this, but so are the features that > allow commenting, discussion forums, white-board, links, etc. Peered > file sharing is performed by the clients, but group content can be > accessed from browsers without installing a client. > > The "Publish" part is about uploading media through sites like > Ourmedia, blip.tv and others and being able to keep track of what is > published where. This is primarily a feature of our desktop client, > but also reflected in profiles on our website (thus publishing through > SpinXpress increases the link love :) ) > > I'd like to point out that much of this is now visible on our new > kick-ass http://SpinXpress.com website that Verdi, Jay, Eric Zimmerman, > Chris Ritke and others poured their souls in to. We are so excited > about this. You can now browse, find and join cool collaborative > projects on the site. This is a major addition to SpinXpress. > > That's it in a nutshell. I hope it helps explain what we do and how we > fit. > > Thanks for the opportunity to plug something I'm so excited to be > working on. > > --- > Markus Sandy > http://SpinXpress.com/Markus_Sandy > http://Ourmedia.org/Markus_Sandy > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- Sull http://vlogdir.com (a project) http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog) http://interdigitate.com (otherly) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
