While the last weeks where really busy for me, I stumbled yesterday in the late evening merely by accident over a cool new site that describes itself as: “Photojournalism & Storytelling, Create a media wall of photos, video, text & music.” The site is called VUVOX.com.

Although the service is for now in private Beta (and I unfortunately have no access to the Beta for now) I was really impressed by the concept and the description of the user interface they give on their site. The concept is quite easy: they give the user the ability to create a multi-media photowall by stitching together photographs, adding hotspots that link to texts, music files, video or anything else. The output is rendered as a flash movie. While you could do this in the past already if you where Flash savvy, the main point of the service seems to be a set of tools given to the average user. So creativity is not restricted by the lack of technical expertise. They describe their features on the site as follows:

“Features include:

• Dynamic media positioning and assembly tools
• Image Cut-out and Masking tools
• Layer positioning and Compositing
• Interactive ‘Hot-spots’, providing links to media,
  text or other websites
• Ability to add rich media details”

All sounds very intuitive and the samples on the site look promising as well.

This service will change definitely what photoblogging will be in the future. I can’t wait to get my hands on a working version of COLLAGE!

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Tags: web2.0, photography, rich media, vuvox.com, photoblog, photoblogging, phlog