Wow!  Good things comes in pairs? Threes? Someone just sent me a link to Toolfarm, a site for creative professional tools, mainly pug-ins for Adobe and Avid products it seems.  They have a post about SpinXpress!  Too cool.  Getting the word out.  I had heard that Robert at Outhink was talking with them.

I am new to Toolfarm and appreciate their notice of our peer-to-peer, secure, private, invitation-only collaboration and file sharing application for Mac’s and PC’s.  They’re site is similar to some of the better developer plug-in sites that I am more familiar with.

As I get more into video editing, I’m sure I’ll be checking them out more.  Right now, I am starting to look at JahShaka, an open source video editing platform and tool that supports a wide variety of plug-inz (note the z, in this case).  As I learn more about this, I’ll learn and report how the open-source approach meshes with commercial sites like Toolfar.  Often, the two work together as I have seen with the Eclipse development  platform.

Have you ever done business with Toolfarm? What was your experience like? Would you recommend them?

Too cool!  We recently posted SpinXpress on downloads.com and something unexpected happened: we got A LOT of new users from Spain.  Go figure.  Not sure why Spain over anywhere else (other than that they are so cool over there, of course - I love traveling in Spain).

i just noticed (via a Technorati search on SpinXpress) this posting about the product on a Spanish language blog.  Too cool!

My spanish is a little rusty, but the post and comment seem to be mainly informative and say that we are like Grouper, except on the Mac too.

Thanks folks!

Link: Comparte tus archivos con tus amigos con SpinXPress.

I posted an article on "Collaborative Video" at spinflow.org, please check it out; I’d really appreciate your feedback (or pushback!  I like that word.)

It covers a wide rage of group efforts centered around video in general and videoblogging in particular.

Here is clip from yesterday’s videoblogging video conference in which Nathan Peters is discussing music and video collaboration.

Just one of the many topics dicussed.

Ok, so whenever people drag me out of paradise (generally to smooze - i can also count with my hoofs), the question comes up about my title.

At Apperceive, I don’t have to worry about this.  Other places, people generally like to refer to me as some some kind of architect.

But my life is changing.  A certain passion for expression has returned and I find I can no longer tolerate spending my time on anything except art.

So two titles…

I declare myself to be an "Application Artist".  Mainly, I intend to create art from applications.  Right now I am working on a piece that combines images, audio and video from various web services.  Technology as medium.

I also take it to mean that any applications I create must also hold to a higher aestetic value than what is accepted today.

The second title simply indicates that I have embraced the notion of spinflow and intend to help others become spinflow masters. 

This is primarily about movement in the way we work and collaborate.  While I recognise that there is a certain attachment here to Outhink and it’s marketing, this is something that I truly believe in and think is important aside from any other connotations.

Removing barriers to creativity is not the domain of any one organization.  I propose to attempt elevate this through discipline, practice, example and discussion to the level of an art.

Think of spinflow like a martial art that allows you to move effortlessly within the creative process and allow you to "kick ass", in the words and sense of Kathy Sierra’s  Creating Passionate Users weblog.

Ok, enuf talk.  Please keep watching, I hope to show you somethings special…

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