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Filed under: Design, Fun, Photo, web 2.0

It's all bubble talk

Speech bubbles are great way to add commentary to pictures. To do this just fire up a graphic program like Photoshop, import your photo, make a new layer, select a shape, draw a shape, create another layer, select the text tool, type what you want, move it around and then save it. In the mean time, that fantastic comment that you wanted to share has gone passé. Of course you could have avoided all this nonsense by using Kyolo.

Kyolo has just one purpose in life, to place speech bubbles on your pictures. There are no layers or strokes here, just upload your photo, choose from 3 different speech bubbles and type away. It couldn't be any simpler.

But for those wanting just a little more control over their bubbles you can certainly rotate the bubbles and increase or decrease the font sizing.

Once you are happy with your artistic creation you can choose to save the photo locally or email it off to your friends to spread a little sunshine to their otherwise dreary day.

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Utilities, Video, Web services

Speak to website visitors in a bubble with Bubble Guru

speak to websiete visitors with bubbleguruHow would you like to have your face bounce up and down your website talking to visitors in a flash overlaid bubble?

Ok, so it's not cool, and it seems kind of annoying when checking out the demo, but it does have its uses. Bubble Guru helps users deliver clear messages through a video displayed on websites, with no massive website reworking. It works by recording a message from within a browser using a webcam, or attached video device in a Flash recorder. After recording you can test it out to see what it will look like on your website, and move forward by placing a string of HTML text on pages where you want the video displayed.

The service is free until May 1st if you would like to check it out and test its capabilities for your integrations. After that date, I guess you have to pay. No word on prices yet.

[via webware]

Filed under: Internet, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Web services, Social Software, Unix

Ask DLS: Kiko Calendar up for grabs on eBay - did the bubble pop?

Ask DLS: Kiko Calendar up for grabs on eBay - did the bubble pop?On our own CEO Jason Calacanis posted on his blog yesterday (hey, he's a businessman. He knows about business, man) that Kiko Calendar - one of the many web 2.0 services that sprung like so many weeds - is up for sale on eBay. Jason's post is, in fact, titled bluntly: "AJAX is not a business model."

Now forgive me for pimping our CEO's blog a little too much, but the guy might have a point: could this be sounding a roll call for the virtual horde of similar web 2.0 services out there that seem to be offering some (admittedly) stellar services without much more of a plan? The now-famous business model from the South Park episode with the under wear gnomes:
  • Develop cool web 2.0 service
  • ...
  • profit (or in this case: "hope to get bought by Yahoo! or Google")
doesn't count either. So what say you, DLS readers? Is the web 2.0 bubble ready to blow, or do you think there's still room in this post's screenshot for yet another calendar, photo-sharing or [insert favorite service here] logo?

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