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"Digital Storytelling Software" MemoryMiner Updated

 

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006; 02:17 AM

MemoryMiner 1.2, a free upgrade to the award winning application was released this week. Version 1.2 sports a number of new features, useful enhancements, and bug fixes.


Version 1.2 comes integrated with Google Maps.

MemoryMiner is a new application developed by GroupSmarts, a company founded in December 2004 by John C. Fox, a pioneer in the field of networked digital asset management. The GroupSmarts team is working on a set of network services that will link individual MemoryMiner libraries using the descriptive metadata that goes with story elements. The long-term goal of MemoryMiner is the creation of a many-to-many marketplace for "Creative Commons" digital media that would allow people to exchange media elements in order to fill in gaps that they may have as they set about recording and publishing their personal histories.

Some of the new features include:

* Google Maps Integration: Google Maps has been integrated into the Places editor, complete with zoomable satellite imagery. It is now possible to manually adjust a location’s latitude and longitude by moving a marker. This is particularly useful for places “in nature” (e.g. Yosemite Park) where a lookup by address wouldn’t really work. This also helps in cases where a lookup by address is not quite accurate. Note that you can pan the map by dragging, and zoom using the scroll wheel on your mouse (if you have one) or by using the zoom slider.

* New MemoryMiner Story Viewer (AKA XML/Web Export) is now based on HTML/Javascript/CSS. Significant improvements have been made to the story viewer. The selection markers on a photo are only visible when the mouse is over the picture then disappear when the mouse is moved. The markers on the map view are filtered based on the person that is selected. Clicking on a photo underneath the map view will zoom the map to the place for that photo. The slideshow has been improved with a nice fade transition between slides, while the photo’s title and caption are displayed over the bottom of the slide. Perhaps most importantly, the look and feel of the web viewer can be modified by adjusting the stylesheets and/or the HTML

* New Spanish Localization MemoryMiner has now been localized into Spanish (joining the Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese localizations).

The upgrade is free of charge to all registered users, and availalble for $45 for new users.


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