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ACM Multimedia 2008 |
October 27 - November 1, 2008. Vancouver.
"The premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices."
(Posted 5/08)
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| Previous Conference Sites Still of Interest |
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Museums and the Web 2008 |
April 9-12, 2008. Montreal.
"Museums and the Web addresses the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line." Many of papers and descriptions of presentations from previous conferences are available here.
(Posted 9/07)
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SWSW Interactive |
March 7-11, 2008. Austin.
"Panel topics cover everything from web design, usability, and blogging to wireless innovation and new technology business models. . . . 6300 registrants from across the United States and around the world attended the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival."
(Posted 9/07)
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ICHIM 2007 |
October 24-26, 2007. Toronto.
"Digital Culture and Heritage." Examines "changing synergies of culture, heritage and informatics. This tenth meeting visits digital culture in the age of Web 2.0, contributed content, open source, broadband services, and ubiquitous computing."
(Posted 3/07)
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| Especially Recommended |
| HotWired
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Lots of information, parts of it on multimedia. "Defining the web since 1994." (Posted 5/98) |
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Campus Technology |
Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus Magazine) focuses on the uses of technology in higher
education. As such, it follows developments in digital media, elearning, portals, and other areas that
may be of interest to viewers of this site. (Posted 7/02, Updated 12/04)
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| Other Selected Sources |
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Colors Magazine |
Clever presentations relying heavily on Shockwave. Creative use of visuals, sound, motion,
and color.
(Posted 2/99)
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Digital Web Magazine |
Since October 1999, a useful source on what's going on with Java, Flash, ActiveX, and other Web techniques. Also occasional articles on design and usability. .
(Posted 7/00)
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| Especially Recommended |
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Adobe Site of the Day Archive |
Highlights of 2004 and 2005, then monthly collections from 2006 and 2007. Some of the best Flash work around.
(Posted 6/05, Updated 12/07)
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Favorite Website Awards |
Hundreds of sites using Flash and Shockwave in 17 categories. Profiles, interviews, articles, and a monthly newsletter.
The site began in 2000 and is based in England.
(Posted 6/05, Updated 12/07)
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| webmonkey/multimedia/ |
A general tutorial by Adam Powell and a collection of multimedia tips. Then four subsections on
Audio/MP3,
Shockwave/Flash,
Video, and
Animation.
From Wired Magazine. (Posted 8/98, Updated 5/01) |
| MultiMediator |
Canada's multimedia guide. Well done. (Posted 5/98) |
| Multimedia Authoring Web
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885 resources as of November 27, 2004. (Posted 5/98, Updated 12/04) |
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Director Web
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Zillions of links related to Macromedia Director.
(Posted 6/99)
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| Other Selected Sources |
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Top Flash Gallery |
39 sites using Flash distinctively. From e-cafe, Zurich (in German).
(Posted 6/05)
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Merlot.org |
Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching.
"A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of
higher education."(Posted 10/03)
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FLASH Design |
"A guide to usability and design issues for the Flash developer." Also
contains a good collection of
Flash sites to check out.
Via InfoDesign
(Posted 10/02)
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Voice Wizard: the speech resource |
A site by Roland Racko devoted to speech technology. There's an
overview,
product reviews,
downloads, and
other information. (Posted 3/00)
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Multimedia Authoring Tools |
Links to software and other multimedia sites. See also
Multimedia Authoring Systems FAQ.
From Computer Based
Teaching and Learning Links.
(Posted 11/99)
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Webopedia Multimedia Links |
In addition to encyclopedia-like definitions of the terms, the site contains an interesting listing of links compiled from mid-1997 through mid-1998.
(Posted 4/00)
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| User Interface Software Tools |
by Brad Meyers. Large listing of products and their sources. (Posted 6/98) |
| Especially Recommended |
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MOWA |
Museum of Interactive Art.
A wonderful project led Amy Stone featuring art provided by a host of contributors.
It broke ground in December 1997 and began to win awards about a
year later (see the timeline).
Begin your exploration at the main entrance,
with this very clear site overview,
or with a guided tour.
(Posted 9/99)
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Multimedia for the Web |
Brief and clear descriptions and demonstrations of a variety of media available to web developers including
This annotated lisk of animation techniques
links mostly to vendor descriptions. See the descriptions of
Shockwave,
Java, and
VRML.
See also the explanations of
video,
embedding sound in web pages,
and the section on
graphics tools, techniques, examples and resources
.
From the Web Developer's Virtual Library.
(Posted 9/99)
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HotWired Animation Express |
Lots of links to things such as tutorials
and interactive animations.
(Posted 5/00)
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| Animation Tutorial |
by Anna McMillan and Emily Hobson. Seven lessons: an
intro,
GIF89,
DHTML,
Flash,
design,
sound, and
styles and integration.
An earlier version of this tutorial appeared here.
(Posted 11/98, Revised 12/99)
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AT&t Labs Research Text to Speech |
An online demo of the system. Highly recommended.
(Posted 2/00)
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| Other Selected Sources |
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Adam's Multimedia Tutorial
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by Adam Powell. "This tutorial will take you through the entire process of multimedia-izing the Web. We'll start
with the basics, showing you how to pack your toolbox so you can actually experience everything. Then we'll move on
to capturing, preparing, and publishing multimedia using RealNetwork's RealMedia. We'll conclude with a look at how
to stream media files using the RealServer." (Posted 10/98)
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| MultiMedia Development Tools
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Analysis, Design, Management, Production and Operation tools.
(Posted 5/98) |
