Creative Media Alliance

We’re excited to announce the launch the new website for Brix Wine Cafe in Kirkland’s Juanita neighborhood. Brix is a comfortable neighborhood wine café perfect for any occasion. From the handcrafted ironwork to the weathered wood beams dating back to the late 1800’s, Brix Wine Café is always casual yet elegant. www.brixwinecafe.com

CMA’s mobile HD production team is off to Juneau, Alaska, to capture the experience of Wings Airways glacier flight tours and the historic Taku Glacier Lodge.  Our goal is to produce rich media content that will be integrated with the new website development.  Check out their current website www.wingsairways.com and view the interim video we created.

Shoot and edit a mini-masterpiece on the new iPhone 3GS. Record high-quality video, trim it to the perfect length, and share it any way you want. A tap of the camera toggle switches from photo to video. Then you’re ready to record 30-fps VGA video — perfect for posting on the web — in portrait or widescreen landscape. No need to wait until you’re at your computer to start editing your mobile movies. Trim your footage right on iPhone. Just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip. www.apple.com/iphone

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

The name “PageRank” is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned toStanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.

Okay maybe we’re not quite Hulu, but we have amassed quite the collection of awesome video projects over the last decade and now you can enjoy them too. Don’t forget to check out the full-screen option and the share on Facebook link!

Get comfy and enjoy http://simplysimple.tv.

Check out the new version 2.8 of Wordpress, named in honor of Jazz legend Chet Baker. The latest incarnation of this wonderful blogging and content management framework sports many new interface and performance enhancements.

Directory assistance

Looking up telephone numbers online is easy. But you don’t always have a computer handy.

That doesn’t mean you need to pay for directory assistance. You can find numbers for free from any telephone.

1-800-GOOG-411 and 1-800-FREE411 are two free directory services. Google’s service (GOOG-411) relies on voice recognition to find results.

Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos, each a customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design, the result is a user’s own personal creation with the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. Animoto’s founders are veterans of the entertainment industry and share a passion for helping people better share their stories and express themselves through online media by innovating technologies in the field of video production.

See how CMA uses Animoto for their clients Pontedera Condos to show off the fabulous South Seattle neighborhood.

Creative Media Alliance just launched a new site for One Hour Parties, using the open source ecommerce platform, Magento. One Hour Parties® is a “one-stop” party and event service designed to meet the demand for quick, creative and affordable celebrations. Come check out their new site and plan your next party.

A great webinar about social media marketing from our friends over at KickApps and Community Roundtable.  Enjoy!