Sharing your portfolio or a gallery can be done a number of ways, from building an HTML or Flash version to hosting a presentation gallery online at Google Docs. ViewBook makes it easy to create professional looking web presentations.
ViewBook's presentation toolprovides a photo album and slideshow at a custom domain. Users can create galleries and portfolios with images, titles, descriptions and custom background colors. Works can be then embedded on a website and viewed at full screen. ViewBook offers a public page with a listing of the presentations you have available, with a bio or profile. As for uploading imagery to use, there are a few different options, from a batch upload tool to a drag and drop feature with a minimal toolset for editing.
If you have a portfolio or presentation that is constantly changing, or want an easy way to make and share one and you aren't too comfortable fiddling with HTML or Flash files, this could be the tool to check out. The embedding feature makes it easy to embed display your works on the comfort of your personal website in a clean and professional manner. The free beta account does have some limitations: 250 images and five portfolios. Check out a sample of what you can do.
What better way to break up a day than to sit back and check out some cartoons for a laugh. Soon we'll have MyToons.com, a video and image sharing site for cartoons that is currently in private beta. Users will be able to upload and share their own artwork, rank other people's work and start a discussion on each piece. Video players can also be embedded in blogs or web sites. For cartoon lovers, its great to see the styles from all across the globe, and now the MyToons community is set to bring all content together through a streaming Flash player. Through MyToons, users can create their own home page portfolio with custom templates to show off their work, and connect with the community. Thats all we know for now, so stay tuned in to see if this is a hit with cartoon lovers.
Scooch is a web-based slideshow app built using web standards. The online slideshow allows you to develop your very own slideshow of images. When the slideshow is published on your website, users can comment on photos in your set, and leave feedback.
In order to run and develop slide shows with Scooch, users have to download the application files. The application is built using PHP, thus will have to run on a web server that has PHP support. Setup is fairy easy and straightforward. Scooch has a very thorough User Manual, with instructions on the structural markup which will allow you customize your slide show layout.
Have fun, and drop a note with your Scooch URL if you try it out!
We are starting up a new little feature at the Download Squad called Googleholic. Googleholic will be broadcast twice a week profiling a few smaller but interesting Google facts, tips, and news items.
Earlier this week Yahoo! announced changes that would roll out soon to upgrade aspects of the Yahoo! Finance property. One of these changes, and probably the most significant for daily users, is the completely overhauled Stock Charts.
When Google rolled out Google Finance property, most of the hubbub around their offering was the dynamic charts. These hadn't been seen before anywhere and had a lot of "kewl" factor in them. Even without the kewl charts, Yahoo! continued to be the most comprehensive and most visited financial resource on the web. And now, Y! is rolling out their version of dynamic stock charts with lots of "kewl" factor. Read on for an overview of the new features and my thoughts.
Scooch
