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Exclaimable! Online social media content creation
by Jason Clarke Nov 8th 2006 at 8:00AM
Exclaimable! is a brand new social media service that empowers users to create online media in the moment, then easily share it by embedding it on their own site, or sharing the URL, much like YouTube. Exclaimable uses Flash to allow users to create video, audio, drawings or simple text posts, all in an extremely intuitive and easy-to-use way. For example, all you need to create video on the site is a webcam and microphone – all of the configuration is done by the site.
There are no file uploads to Exclaimable; the point of the site is to have users create their content right on the site. This pared-down approach makes Exclaimable both approachable and addictive. It's fun to set about the task of creating a new piece of online media, be it a picture or video, and drop the pressure of having to make it "perfect". Exclaimable lets you make something that's "good enough" right now. The embedding feature enables any of the content types to be added to a user's web page, be it a blog, myspace account, or static html page. This could enable some users that might otherwise be intimidated by video editing tools to be able to create a video blog, simply by using Exclaimable's video capture and hosting functionality, and embedding the videos in their own blog.
There's also a content browser where you can view everyone's submissions filtered by medium and category, and rate them.
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robotrock said 11:26AM on 11-08-2006
AOL's UnCut video has allowed video creation from webcams and camcorders for a few months now.
Just an FYI
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Nina Marie said 12:23PM on 11-09-2006
While Exclaimable is a novel idea, I think the big news in podcasting is that people can now host live radio shows over the internet using nothing more than a telephone. There's a new service (not sure if it's officially launched yet) called BlogTalkRadio that enables users to host live shows over with call-ins from anywhere in the world. It's completely free and all you need is a telephone. That's what I call empowering instant gratification.
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