Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make clips from thousands of its movies available for use on the Internet.

The unit of Viacom Inc. is teaming with Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to launch the VooZoo application Monday on Facebook.

The service gives Facebook users access to footage from thousands of movies, ranging from “The Ten Commandments” to “Forrest Gump,” to send to others on the popular social networking site.

“The short clips for a movie that you’ve already seen before helps you relive the moment,” Paramount senior vice president of entertainment Derek Broes said.

The clips last from a few seconds to several minutes and cover the gamut from Eddie Murphy’s guffaw in “Beverly Hills Cop” to Audrey Hepburn’s pleas over her “no-name slob” cat in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

The studio will market DVDs of the movies through a button that appears after each clip is played. It eventually wants to use the application to virally market upcoming releases.

For example, VooZoo is withholding clips from the “Indiana Jones” series until it works out a way to market the May 22 release of the latest installment, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

FanRocket founder Danny Kastner said he is aiming to get a few hundred thousand users within two months and added that the company is in talks with other Hollywood studios to package their titles on VooZoo.

That could take time, however, since Paramount staffers needed more than a year to select clips from the archive and tag them with search terms.

Paramount said it has not set revenue goals for the new venture.

“My benchmark for success is that people are joining and sending,” Broes said.

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

 Loading ...

The ID Security Suite, developed by Fastlink2, provides solutions to a myriad of security issues that plague both business and home computer applications by offering a wide array of software packages designed to protect PC users from unauthorized use or outside intrusion.

ID Security Suite provides low cost solutions to Internet security issues that plague home and business computers. The company, Fastlink2, recognized that there is a desperate need for PC protection from a variety of forces that would attempt unauthorized access to gain information from company or home computers. Consequently they have developed a suite of applications that will protect computers from hackers, spy-ware, unsolicited invasions and a variety of other internal or external threats to computer file security.

Official ID Security Suite Press Release information.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Aha-Soft announces the update of IconLover, a handy tool to create and edit Windows icons and manage icon collection. The updated version makes it easier to sketch icons by allowing printing empty grids for easier sketching, or printing existing icons with a grid. Featuring enhanced support for 32-bit true color and 16-bit full color icons while generating standard-compliant Windows icons, IconLover has made yet another step to being an all-in-one solution for professional and amateur icon designers altogether.

icon editorSketch, draw and modify icons easily with IconLover! Being an all-in-one solution for the professionals as well as amateur designers, IconLover offers an extensive feature set to anyone who designs, makes or collects Windows icons.

Professional icon designers will certainly appreciate the logical step-by-step approach to the icon creation process and meticulous care to every little detail. Used to pen and paper? IconLover will print you an empty grid to help you draw a sketch that is easy to transfer into digital. Feel cold when starting from a scratch? We’ll help you by printing an existing icon into the grid!

By unlocking the various color and resolution options while remaining within the defined standards for the Windows ICO format, IconLover opens endless creative opportunities.

Are you using a heavyweight graphical editing suite for making your icons just because it can work with layers? IconLover supports the layers, too! Add, remove and blend elements into your icons, and maintain a comprehensive library of effects and modifiers such as arrows and cross-marks that are easy to apply to any icon when needed.

Designing an icon for Windows Vista? IconLover is ready to help! With the support of all the new formats and resolutions, IconLover is perfectly able to create and save an icon that will be compatible with Windows Vista and all earlier versions of Windows.

Are you an icon collector? IconLover helps you build and manage your collection by allowing extracting icons from executable files, DLLs, icon libraries and archives. Searching for icons on your computer and on the Internet makes IconLover a perfect tool for any serious collector.

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

 Loading ...

Legendary German Engineering Blended Into Next Generation Advertising Tools

New strategies for marketers have been developing over time, and two of the top-rated contenders are now Search Engine Optimization (SEO) “safe” postings to search engines, web directories, and submission of SEO-based articles to the top article repositories.

The only problem is: Both of these techniques require a large investment of time as there are hundreds of sites that are good candidates for creating those desirable backlinks.

And that’s where the German engineering comes in. Fastlink2, a Germany-based software engineering firm, has created two Windows-based software programs that automate the site and article posting process.

read more from official source

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...