"Entale is the new podcast platform which adds pictures, maps, links, quotes and chapters to your favourite shows for a rich, interactive experience. "
"The world's most-loved social storytelling platform
Wattpad connects a global community of 80 million readers and writers through the power of story."
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"This morning it became apparent that Apple had acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. This startup works with emotion KPIs, meaning they're in the business of watching your face and body to decide how you feel. With that information, Emotient aims to detect attention, engagement, and sentiment. Implications from their public presentation of business suggests that they've been aiming their business at advertisers - as well as other odd product creators on mobile platforms."
"The move towards end-to-end IP between media producers and audiences will make new broadcasting systems vastly more agnostic to data formats and to diverse sets of consumption and production devices.
In this world, object-based media becomes increasingly important; delivering efficiencies in the production chain, enabling the creation of new experiences that will continue to engage the audience and giving us the ability to adapt our media to new platforms, services and devices."
"Google Cloud Video Intelligence API makes videos searchable, and discoverable, by extracting metadata with an easy to use REST API. You can now search every moment of every video file in your catalog and find every occurrence as well as its significance. It quickly annotates videos stored in Google Cloud Storage, and helps you identify key nouns entities of your video, and when they occur within the video. Separate signal from noise, by retrieving relevant information at the video, shot or per frame. "
"Real-time Content Analysis and Processing (ReCAP) is a project co-funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme. ReCAP will bring to market a range of automatic content analysis services to form an affordable, scalable and flexible platform designed to enhance metadata-driven media workflows and realise the value of historical content archives."
The Ripple Mapping Tool is an interactive data visualization platform for social movements and community organizers. It allows community members to tell stories about how events and programs impacted their lives, and generates "ripple maps" that show the long term outcomes of interconnected organizing efforts.
"XIMPEL is a free open-source platform to create interactive media applications. To this end, it uses the HTML5 standard, as well as the open XML description format. Using XIMPEL, it is possible to weave together video, audio, images and other media, thus creating interactive videos and other touch-based web applications. XIMPEL's modular approach allows for flexibility and extendibility."
Apply Magic Sauce is a non-profit academic research project coordinated by the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. The demos and platforms available here are a modest attempt to reverse the trend in Big Data and empower citizens to not only retain control of their data but also derive meaningful insight from it.
RacontR is changing bit by bit the way we approach interactive storytelling and web interface design with a dash of creativity and without a single line of code.
"Enable natural and contextual interaction with tools that augment users' experiences using the power of machine-based intelligence. Tap into an ever-growing collection of powerful artificial intelligence algorithms for vision, speech, language, and knowledge."