Projects and sites that create large repositories of creative digital media content
I've decided to summarize a few of my recent findings around digital media sites. I will compile more or less up to date list of the links sometimes soon. I will publish these categorized links under http://www.digitalmediaplace.com:8080/links.jsp . Some commercial sites can be found there already in no specific order. I was asked recently to put a new link in for a mid size stock photography site. This URL seems to be getting popular.
Just like in case with software, commercial creative content creation efforts get a serious competition from the people who just like to create “cool” video, images, art etc. and share it with others. Someone had pointed out that most of the creative art ideas are being generated “at home” and not at the office. While there are many good sites with content “for sale”, the big attempts to aggregate content in any form of “free” are starting getting on the radar recently. The last entry in this area is http://www.youtube.com/ . Watch out, they’ll get scooped by Google or Yahoo any day now ;-). I guess the http://www.flickr.com/ is an “old news” by now, but the site is wildly popular, although there have been great sites like that before with much less hype. http://www.pbase.com/ comes to mind and it was probably one of the best & first which started as a hobby projects.
The most significant effort in the “free” category is probably the Wikipedia family: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects . I would personally nick-name this project the “The Encyclopedia Galactica”. The collaborative effort to create central knowledge base to which anybody can contribute and collaborate at the same time - is nothing short of revolutionary. Wikipedia goes far beyond Encyclopedia: Wikimedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks are very significant in its own rights. The projects are ultimately changing the way we generate and process information. It a lot more decentralized with instant feed-back. Wikinews and Wikimedia projects are the most exciting recent projects.
Here is embeded video from youtube.com:
Embedded images from Flickr.com:
Just like in case with software, commercial creative content creation efforts get a serious competition from the people who just like to create “cool” video, images, art etc. and share it with others. Someone had pointed out that most of the creative art ideas are being generated “at home” and not at the office. While there are many good sites with content “for sale”, the big attempts to aggregate content in any form of “free” are starting getting on the radar recently. The last entry in this area is http://www.youtube.com/ . Watch out, they’ll get scooped by Google or Yahoo any day now ;-). I guess the http://www.flickr.com/ is an “old news” by now, but the site is wildly popular, although there have been great sites like that before with much less hype. http://www.pbase.com/ comes to mind and it was probably one of the best & first which started as a hobby projects.
The most significant effort in the “free” category is probably the Wikipedia family: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects . I would personally nick-name this project the “The Encyclopedia Galactica”. The collaborative effort to create central knowledge base to which anybody can contribute and collaborate at the same time - is nothing short of revolutionary. Wikipedia goes far beyond Encyclopedia: Wikimedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks are very significant in its own rights. The projects are ultimately changing the way we generate and process information. It a lot more decentralized with instant feed-back. Wikinews and Wikimedia projects are the most exciting recent projects.
Here is embeded video from youtube.com:
Embedded images from Flickr.com:
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