Roxio PhotoShow: Emergent Technolgy 2

I choose to research this technology and use it as my second emergent technology after looking through at least 100 pages of other photo sharing sites. I feel like PhotoShow is one of the most user friendly photo sharing sites that I found. It also has many useful and relevant features, including easy photo uploads from social networking sites or straight from mobile devices like Blackberry with mobile uploader.


PhotoShows are multimedia presentations that allow you to combine photos and or video clips with broadcasting capabilities and the ability to edit these photos and videos with captions, musical soundtracks, borders and backgrounds. There are several tabs that include many tools that will aid you in this editing process.

Other tools include text bubbles, animated stickers and title pages.

I decided after looking through all of the PhotoShows features and abilities to try it out myself and to my surprise it was just as easy as they said it was. They allow you multiple ways of uploading pictures including facebook, MySpace, Flickr, your personal pictures from your computer, or from other web albums. They also allow you to upload multiple files at once. I uploaded a Christmas album from my facebook account and within 20 seconds or less my photos were waiting in a slideshow for me to edit The one issue I had while uploading was the fact that under the basic free membership they only allow you to upload 24 photos for a show, but I moved on anyway. Next came editing. There were so many editing tools and all made the slideshow more fun and entertaining. I made funny bubble captions over my kid’s heads and made the show style winter based to match the Christmas theme. Here came my next issue and again it was because I did not have the premium membership. There were limited choices in the editing process. To get full access there was a $39.99/year fee. So maybe next time I’ll get the membership and create a full PhotoShow with music ad all the goodies.

Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Premium Service for just $39.99/yr.



Unlimited PhotoShow creation and sharing


PhotoShow 6 desktop software for Windows - $30 value


Burn PhotoShows to DVD at home


Hundreds of one-click styles, songs, and stickers


Beautiful PhotoShow gallery themes


Allow friends to download your photos


Add your own MP3 and iTunes music


Add video clips


Use up to 400 photos and videos per show


Add multiple songs to your shows
 
Sharing and viewing your PhotoShow are the next steps and as many options as they rest of the process has these steps have more. Like I said before you can share and view from mobile devices like the Blackberry, Macs or PCs, the online gallery page, hand held devices like PDA’s and other medial players. Also you can burn DVD’s of the PhotoShow and view them on your TV.

RSS feeds-Saving me some time

After creating my Google Reader I was a little worried about finding websites to subscribe to. Ones that I would actually keep and check, but while I was checking out the reader I found in the browse for stuff section an option that allows you to subcribe to popular sites that are bundled under a main topic. I found this very useful because there were many interesting sites in the bundles and made subcribing to all of these bundles very easy. Also the main topics seemes to include everything. From news to sites about popular video games and coupons.  On top of the articles I had to subcribe to for my class assignment I found many more interesting sites that feel like I will check often and keep up to date on.  I also realized how much time I will save going from one news website to the next. Having all of the sites send their updates to me makes it so much easier and faster then going on to every website to see if or what the new information is. So if anything this Google Reader saved so much time in my day!
I was completly surprised that the reader made it so easy to find and subcribe to sites. I also was surprised at how many sites actually had links to subscribe to them through RSS feeds.