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From Blogs to Books

posted on: November 17th, 2007

While attending the BlogWorld Expo.  I came across this cool booth called Blog2Print.  It’s pretty much self explanatory.  It’s a company that produces your blog postings to a book format.

It’s great for a How-To site to publish themselves in a an easy format.  The price was only 24.99 for 20 pages.  Pretty neat deal.  I can see this working great for Cook Book, Holiday Gifts, even Valentines.

So, Blog 2 Print is part of Shared Book, which is a reverse publishing company that personalizes a book from the web.

SharedBook automates the process of creating books Â…and lets you add to the content as well. Pricing starts at about 30 dollars. Books about vacations, can include, besides photos, digital copies of menus or itineraries. The kinds of things that used to go into old fashioned scrapbooksÂ….brought into the digital age. Bloomberg Boot Camp, IÂ’m Fred Fishkin.

I might be interested in make a book just for holiday events.  Enjoy.

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Dance Jam

posted on: November 16th, 2007

Dance Jam

A few weeks ago, I read on Shoemoney about this new site called Dance Jam. It’s suppose to be this mix of YouTube and Dancing. Quite frankly I love the idea. It blends this idea of So you think you can Dance and brings it to the web.

To that end, Hammer teamed up with Geoffrey Arone, co-founder of alternative web browser maker Flock, to create a new website called DanceJam that will offer slow-motion tutorials and other dance-oriented frills in addition to all the usual social networking tools. [Source: Wired]

Company Profile

DanceJam is a social media destination where users hang out and watch people dance, learn how to dance, or show off their moves online. DanceJam provides a community where users can watch and rate videos of people dancing, promote their profiles, compete in head-to-head dance-offs and competitions, register and get matched with people who share similar interests, and learn about local dance-related events.

DanceJam is founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer. [Source: TechCrunch]

Dancing is a hobby that can really be utilized on the net. YouTube alone has already seen these kids from all over the world try to become dance superstars over the internet. There is one thing for certain with the internet, it gives everyone the ability to show their talents and give hopes to many that they can become a semi-super star.

Why am I talking about DanceJam so much? Well, dancing is one of my hobbies as well. So I will probably be one of the few people who jump in on this social media network catered toward dancing. Maybe someone can merge American Idol to the web. Have a KaraokeJam? of sorts? That would make a killing.

Here is one amazing clip from David Bernal. This clip actually made him famous and he started to land commercials and gigs all over the world. Enjoy.

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