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Magazine + Cloud Computing = MagCloud

If you ever had the dream of being the editor of your own magazine but lacked the experience, network and the monetary investments to get it off the ground don't give up yet. MagCloud hopes that with its services you can be the next publishing mogul.

While currently in beta, MagCloud claims that the process is easy enough.

  • Create your magazine according to their specifications and upload it to their servers.
  • Order a proof to verify that the magazine is how you want it.
  • Set your price and publish it.

The concept is similar to that of CafePress which allows you to set the price for your own custom printed t-shirt with no investment on your part. While we haven't seen an actual physical copy of MagCloud's work, the ability to print your own magazine is tempting.

Filed under: Business, Fun, Internet, Yahoo!, Social Software

Yahoo covers fashion week with ELLE

Yahoo covers fashion week with ELLEYahoo has teamed up with fashion giant ELLE to bring mobile coverage of fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris.

The special fashion coverage runs through Yahoo! oneSearch on mobile devices, which we have covered in the past, providing up to the minute fashion news, trend reports, behind the scenes blogs, and city guides. But perhaps the best must have feature for fashion lovers is the photo coverage.

ELLE will be running exclusive runway reports starting today. The reports will feature editors reviews of the top designers, models and trends of the day, fashion blogs will be profiled and share their insight, with photo diaries documenting the whole event available to view. And of course, no fashion show is complete without special events, Yahoo! oneSearch users will have access to complete coverage of the must attend parties of fashion week.

To get started, visit http://m.yahoo.com in your mobile browser and simply search for fashion. Or alternatively, visit http://fw.elle.com, or text "fashion" to 92466 (YAHOO).

Filed under: Business, Design, Fun, Internet, Photo, Video, Blogging, Web services

Create your own online magazine with idio

idio online magazine

How would it feel to be a media titan in the new media world? Owning a world class magazine with all the right content; Is that where the future of publishing is headed?

Try out your luck with Idiomag, an online magazine layed out to your specifications and content. Idiomag provides users with a free magazine that is totally personalized with your interests and constantly updated with text, audio and video.

The bad news, Ideomag currently only focuses on music, but they will be opening up to the technology, gaming, film and business world in the near future.

The good news, this is the future of online publishing. With paper being the old school route in receiving information, it is quite possible that we see more online magazines sprouting up covering more and more unique and niche topics.

What do DLS readers think? Would you prefer to pick up a magazine at the local newsstand, or create a customized magazine online that pulls in all relevant content to your interests?

Filed under: Business, Social Software

Condé Nast buys Reddit

conde nast, wired buys redditEveryone is aquiring everyone on this spooky Halloween. Google bought JotSpot, now Condé Nast, the owners of Wired magazine, have bought Reddit. Similiar to Digg, Reddit is a website that lists what the popular news is online, by users voting, and submitting articles. Michael Arrington scooped the news of the deal, and that Reddit employees will be packing up and moving from Boston to the Wired headquarters in San Francisco and merging into Wired Digital. Should be interesting to see how a traditional publishing company will beef up Reddit and aim to make it a Digg killer. If thats in the plan. No news has been released as to other terms of the deal.

Filed under: Blogging

How to run a magazine on WordPress

Run a magazine on WordPressIt's no secret that with a little elbow-grease and know-how, popular open source blogging tool WordPress is a pretty versatile platform for web publishing. To that end, writer Leon Kilat has written a nice guide called How to use WordPress to run a mazine, news website. He describes the process of building Cebu Living, an attractive webzine powered by WordPress. Like I said, a little elbow grease is required, so this isn't for you if your knees shake at the sight of a little PHP code, but if you want to know how to turn your blog into something more than a blog, Kilat's tutorial is a good starting point.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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