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Archive for July, 2007

WAX in the Wild: Jing

A little while ago I talked about WAX – a new kind of application that combined the best parts of desktop and web applications. Well, via MacBreak Weekly I discovered a great little WAX app called Jing, made by TechSmith.
In a nutshell, Jing lets you take screenshots and desktop video and then easily and automatically share it on ScreenCast. The whole thing is currently designated a pilot project, meaning that its totally free.
There are really a number of options open to them for a business model, if they decide to go forward with Jing as a product. They could charge for the software. Images and video posted to ScreenCast could be associated with an advertising payload, making it a Google-type media initiative.

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Time Magazine Names DonorsChoose.org one of the 50 Best Websites 2007

Time Magazine has named one of our clients – DonorsChoose.org one of the 50 best websites of 2007. Number 4, in fact. Thanks Time!

DonorsChoose.org, for those who don’t know, is a website where people can find and fund proposals by teachers. Its been mentioned in the extensively in the press. We’ve been involved with them since 2002, when we built their New York regional website.

DonorsChoose is currently gearing up for their national expansion – so this couldn’t come at a better time! Once again congratulations to DonorsChoose!

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