Bomomo is a wonderful Flash-based art application that runs in your Firefox or Safari browser. Instead of giving you some easy MS Paint-like tools like a paintbrush, bucket, and eraser, everything in Bomomo is dynamic and moving, leading to some kaleidoscopic creations that you can either e-mail to friends or squirrel away to your hard drive. I spent about 15 minutes layering effects on top of one another, and while the results aren’t nearly as professional looking as SXSW Interactive winner Viscosity (review), if you know what you’re doing you can create some really gorgeous abstract creations.
What makes the tool particularly interesting is that each of the 18 drawing tools are tied to your mouse in a different way. Some tools will follow it around, while others do their ideal to escape your pointer–creating some genuinely gorgeous effects. Some also take advantage of where your pointer is, either changing in size or color based on what part of the screen you’re on. It’s also just plain fun.
NEW YORK–As head of Web video studio Vuguru, longtime entertainment exec Michael Eisner has been on a sort of tent-revival tour for the past few years, preaching the gospel of Internet video. On Thursday, his audience was the ad industry, and he was there to tell them not to be …
With her snappy online videos and show Farmers Almanac TV, urban Gen-Xer Patti Moreno proves that you don’t have to live on a huge, rural spread to grow your own food.
She brings some green into the concrete jungle and earned the nickname “Garden Girl” from Home Depot sales clerks after many trips to stock her New York City oasis of organic treats.
On her gardening pages, you’ll learn that you can grow your own salad with just a tiny window box or even indoors. Moreno is full of tips and tricks for cutting costs and having fun in the dirt, whether you’re a novice or expert green thumbs.
Don’t miss the recipes because you’ll definitely want to cook up the goodies from your garden. Urban sustainability makes you the ultimate locavore.
She notes, “Urbanites act is if organic food is something new, when in fact, factory farming is new.” Organic farming is simply the way people used to grow food, before the biochemical inventions of the 20th century.
Here’s an intro:
For further inspiration, visit Moreno’s library of links and resources.
Last.fm, the music-focused social site that CBS Interactive acquired last year, announced Wednesday the launch of a project called “Last.fm In A Box,” which distributes the site’s ad-supported streaming radio services to partner companies.
Launch partners include a variety of social networks, personalized home page services, and …
Heavy, a niche video content company focused on the “dude” demographic, is slimming down.
The company said Wednesday it will spin off Husky Media, its video advertising platform, into a separate company. It’ll remain under Heavy’s oversight alongside the Heavy.com portal, but will be run by a different team.
Husky Media operates a technology called Video-Skin, which lets bloggers and other publishers “wrap” any video player in Husky ads and then pull in revenue. Husky also runs a Video Guide that offers publishers a library of video content in exchange for splitting ad profits.
Also on Wednesday, Heavy announced that its Burly Sports Show program will be syndicated on CBSSports.com, with ads served by the Husky platform.
Disclaimer: CBSSports.com is owned by CBS, which has agreed to acquire CNET Networks, publisher of News.com. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
Business reviews site Yelp will be focusing quite a bit on mobile features in the near future, including an upcoming location-aware iPhone app on the way, company representatives told CNET News.com Wednesday.
This will mean that iPhone users will be able to log onto the Yelp application and search …
Keeping up such stratospheric growth will be even tougher for this year’s class, given the economy. That’s especially so for Hansen Natural (HANS). Our No. 1 company, ideal known for its Monster Energy drink, has long been a favorite of short-sellers. After a torrid growth trajectory—profits rose from $20 million in 2004 to $149 million […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
By Alistair Barr MBIA Inc. (MBI) raised $1.1 billion selling new shares in February and was planning to funnel $900 million of the cash into its main bond insurance subsidiary by next week to salvage its crucial triple-A ratings. But on Wednesday, Moody’s Investors Service warned it might downgrade MBIA’s ratings anyway, so the company has decided […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net
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