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StarWars.com wants you to channel George Lucas

We can't wait to see what all you creative types come up with once StarWars.com relaunches their website on Friday with its new video mash-up feature. The site's new online video-editing tool provided by Eyespot will let fans make their own Star Wars movies by choosing from over 250 scenes from all six films. Since you can even add your own video shots to the collection, there's no telling what kinds of ideas users will come up with. The site even has several music tracks to choose from to make your new film complete. When you're done, save it to the site and share with your friends and fellow Star Wars aficionados.

Movie mash-ups and video uploads aren't the only cool things the new site will have to offer. How does five years worth of Star Wars Fan Movie Festival shorts grab you? Or how about hundreds of user-generated videos culled from all over the Internet, along with batches of mini-documentaries that explore the making of the whole saga?

There are over 10,000 pages of goodies already available, and more content and features will reportedly be offered in the coming months. If that isn't enough to keep even the most devoted Star Wars fans busy for a while, we don't know what is.

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Web services

The Unofficial Pandora/eMusic Mashup

Pandora eMusic MashupI'm not sure how I missed this when it came out, as I'm a big fan of both eMusic and Pandora. It seems that Jon Strunk, a product manager at eMusic, has created a terrific Pandora/eMusic mashup.

All the details can be found on Jon's blog, but the service works as you'd expect. While Pandora plays tracks, eMusic offers them up for download (if they're available). Because I have both Pandora and eMusic accounts, when I first visited the mashup I was auto-magically signed in to both services and my default station started playing. Genius.


Filed under: Developer, Internet, Web services, VoIP

AIM Phoneline APIs and developer contest

AIM Phoneline developer's challengeAOL is planning to release APIs for developers to mash-up the new (since May) AIM Phoneline application. AOL is also holding a developer contest to see who will develop the best application using AIM Phoneline. Phoneline was launched in May is supposed to compete with the likes of Skype, Gizmo, Vonage, and anyone else who dares. Contest entries will be accepted from Sept. 11 through Nov. 30th, the winner to receive $3500 and be announced in January. Second prize gets $1000. No matter if you win the contest or not, the APIs will be available sometime in the next few months for all developers to build, mash-up and integrate into applications. Rinnnnnng! Sorry, I have to take this call...

[Via Computer World]

Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters

Megaman vs. Ghosts 'n Goblins - Today's Time Waster

Megaman vs. Ghosts 'n
GoblinsI've seen a few classic video game mash-ups before, like the brilliant Pong vs. Asteroids (okay I just made that up), but found many of them lacking. Mega Man vs. Ghosts 'n Goblins, however, is a masterpiece. It's a Flash game that seamlessly blends the original Mega Man and Ghosts 'n Goblins, a game I could never beat, into something that looks like it came right out of the basement of a bored NES programmer in 1987. It's just a few levels, but extremely fun and a surprising challenge.

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