Incase you didnt see this on digg check out the new features of the logitech orbit MP. pretty cool! now lets see someone do face tracking in flash video? Grant Skinner looking in your direction

Heres a screen shot showing a frame from the video. You can have features track your face….they even apear to move in a 3d space which is cool. And i love the avitar feature which places a 3d cartoon style creature instead of you in the output and it animates as you doo eybrows everything.

Link  Link to product page

Yep, its been a while since I have seen such a slick online application as this. Fluxiom has released the first version of its website with a 30day free preview. Although you have to enter credit card details to acess this (and cancel before the 30 day trial period is up or they will charge you).

It is full of sexy image reflections and and chock full of rails technology. I think it will be setting a standard for sites to come. I have been using the reflections on my mobile video site videmo.co.nz (still under development) and  love the look of them.

(please note it seems to only accept single file uploads) 

What is really great is that this site is not limited to images alone. You can upload all sorts of documents and the meta data within these docs will be available in the site. It creates thumbnails of these docs so you have a visual reference when dealing with them.

You can then share these files out through email etc with all the expected options. I am still investigating this myself. Although it doesnt seem to provide a shared interface for other users to access any of your shared files (I am on the super cheap user trial though).

Every where you look, everything you do seems to have a real polish to it and not have the javascript for the hell of it feel. Nice implementation really! 

I have yet to see a nice flash version of something similar, (I really hope to though), but I can see alot of work has gone into parsing the documents and extracting meta data from them. This is something I worked around with RightHemisphere and thier Deep Server product. I am now doing similar stuff on videmo.co.nz for mobile videos, and its just really tedious work. Does anyone know how many formats are supported by Fluxiom? 

So head on over to http://www.fluxiom.com and sign up for a trail! You will be plesently surprised by this online app. And if you want more eye candy head over to http://blog.fluxiom.com/ and they have plenty of pics describing features. If I were paying for the services of flickr I think I would seriously consider changing over to Fluxiom, but im not so I wont. Hopefully they decide to release a limited free user account (for more than 30 days). Yeah ok Im a cheap arse! 

And keep an eye on my www.videmo.co.nz site as I develope it further (using what has nnow become somewhat of a web video standard FLASH VIDEO yeah!!!). Its still under construction and ill do a proper post when its done. But the phonenumbers available will only be New Zealand ones as I havent tested with overseas models. Its my first really big personal project wirh Ruby on rails.

Wow just jumped onto Jumpcut after seeing it on Techcrunch. WOW. The biggest problem is this is what I (and Johnno from bluespark) have been working on for myself (or something similar) using c# and ffmpeg to parse the video and a few other technologies. I have been working on a site called Videmo doing what jumpcuts does but for mobile video. Bugger.

Anyway the guys who made jumpcut have done a really nice job of making the interface intuative and very usable…join up for free and upload a couple of videos and have a play…its just damn fun. See the image below for an example of the iterface.

This is going to evolve into a cool app. I think I will carry on with videmo just for New Zealand users but in the meantime ill watch videmo with great interest