Thing #39: Animoto

Had a lot of fun with this one. Very hard to limit self to only 15 or less photos.

I obtained photos from http://www.flickr.com/

A $3 fee for full length videos is a good money spinner - much easier to find more photos than fewer and with such a modest fee most would be happy to pay. And probably again and again!

They've made it very easy to put together. Tried the remix function and got a much better result than what I had first up. As have 15 photos, not all seem to show in the video.

http://animoto.com/play/ruSUEHkO4hQqB8XlIYOA6A

Aimed at the novice - just shove in a heap of photos, choose some music and voila - heaps of fancy effects are done for you. So easy.

Thing #35: Microblogging

Twitter.

Hmmm.

What can I say?

Setting up an account was easy.

Declined to have Twitter have access to all my contacts (scary stuff).

Searched (on a major nostalgic whim) and found some people posing as "Buffy" and "Xander" and "Angel" from the "old" tv show. They must have fun thinking up posts to add re vampire slaying lives. Apparantly a Xander is now following me - talk about quick on the uptake.





No "Spike" though - oh, the shame of it all.....