We would like to give you the inside scoop on the latest Nota, Inc. service: PhotoPeach.com that has just launched into public Beta.
Photopeach is a social slideshow service that allows users to create a custom flash slideshow in four steps.
-Users can pick photos from their computer or from facebook, picasa, and flickr, then drag and drop to arrange them.
-Next, they can title the slideshow and choose background music from our default selections or by youtube search (we place a small youtube player to get the sound).
-Once they enter the slideshow it will play automatically, and users can leave comments on each photo (it auto-pauses).
-These comments can be related to a zoom on a part of the photo, and sound-effect smiley faces can also be added.
-All shows are private by default, but we provide a complex link so anyone it is shared with can view that particular show without registration.
If you enjoy the service and think your friends might as well, then please tell them about us.
PhotoPeach.com accounts are compatible with notaland.com accounts.
Happy New Year,
Saturday, January 10, 2009
New Social Slideshow Service From Nota, Inc.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Breaking News: Nota an Official Partner at Creative Commons iSummit '08 in Sapporo
Hey Everyone!
We are very excited as Nota is an official partner of Creative Commons at their iSummit in Sapporo, Japan. Here is a description of the event from the site:
Inspired by Japanese innovation and hosted in a city fast becoming recognized for its modern, creative, technology-orientated approach to business and public initiatives - this year's iSummit will be a ground-breaking event that showcases pioneering approaches to furthering digital culture around the world.
At our booth in iSummit we are showcasing our C-shirt concept using Nota technology to design and edit remixable shirt designs. Participants can print their own C-shirts right there. Some people are ordering as many as 7 at a time!
We have also added lots of great new Clip Art for everyone to use making new designs better all the time.
Note: for this special campaign we have temporarily opened registration to iSummit participants only and it will close on August 1.
As always, please feel free to share your opinions about Nota on our Contact page, or here in the comments.
Love,
Ben
Nota Community Guy
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Nota Usage Possibilities and the "C-Shirt" Project
What is a C-shirt?
Our vision is to create a free-mixing/editing area on the web. Anyone can use the Nota Mixer to express themselves. Because we believe that Nota has many possibilities and in order to show one of them we proposed a Creative Commons (CC)-licensed T-Shirt project which we call C-Shirts.
C-shirt History
In 2004 the developer of Nota technology, Isshu Rakusai, developed a CC-licensed T-shirt creating and remixing tool with the help of some content providers, and introduced it in a Creative Commons workshop as the C-Shirt project. For more details, please refer to this article written by Lawrence Lessig. In 2007, Isshu and some of the Creative Commons staff demonstrated C-shirts in i Summit 2007 (June 2007) and in an event put on by Mozilla Firefox (September 2007). The C-shirt project is just a prototype but even you can order your own from our C-Shirt website via a vendor in Japan if you can read Japanese.
Enjoy All of Nota's Uses!
As we mentioned, the C-Shirt project is just one prototype which shows some of Nota's possibilities. We would love it if you enjoy Nota's functions, imagine new possibilities, and create wonderful things.
P.S.
In order to avoid the confusion of our users, we would like to clarify the following:
- We had the idea to put a "Quick Read code" on the C-Shirt but it has not been realized yet.
- Nota Inc. is not a T-shirt vendor, but a web service company.
- Nota Inc. is not a "Japanese" company. The founder Isshu Rakusai is originally from Japan and the Nota concept originated in Japan but Nota Inc. is a Silicon Valley, California based U.S. Corporation founded in December 2007.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact us at notaland.com/contact.
Friday, May 16, 2008
We created Nota Special Tshirts
After our Nota Release Campaign, we created hand-made special T-shilts for our dear first users. They look pretty nice, right?
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
New Web Canvas "NOTA" Beta Version Launched
http://notaland.com/
NOTA Inc. is launching NOTA, a new web service for bloggers, social networkers, and artists of all ages that takes creative community building on the internet to a whole new level.
What is NOTA?
NOTA is a social canvas. Friends, colleagues, and groups can simultaneously create and collaborate on fun, interactive websites. First, quickly and easily pull in text, movies, photos, maps, and more from across the web. Then, mix and edit and see friends' changes in real time. Users can create group scrapbooks, travelogues, club websites, party invitations, and interactive, multimedia personal blogs, or even chat with a full plate of multimedia tools.
NOTALAND Features:
Ease of Use
With NOTA setting up webpages has never been easier. Material is imported quickly and easily from sources like Flickr, YouTube, Amazon.com, Wikipedia, and Google maps, or can be uploaded from the user's own computer and even straight from a webcam. All the material can be pasted, scaled to size, rotated and moved around on the canvas to create custom multimedia webpages.
Interactive
Unique to NOTA, users can simultaneously update the same canvases and interact with each other around the world. 500-1,000 people at a time can work together to create dynamic webpages, chat with art and design, and comment on each other's work!
Powerful Tools
- Search functions allow users to pull in pictures, videos, maps, and other content from across the web.
- Editing tools allow users to draw, crop, add text, and add shapes
- "Take a shot" feature allows users to add shots from a webcam straight into NOTA
- Canvases can be sent by email, embedded into blogs, or viewed directly on the internet as webpages
NOTA Launch Promotion
As a special launch promotion, the first 100 users who create 3 or more NOTA pages will receive a special gift! For details, visit our campaign site at http://notaland.com/campaign
(we're sorry the campaign is now over)
About NOTA Inc.
NOTA Inc. was incorporated in December 2007 by the inventor of the technology behind NOTA, Isshu Rakusai. The company's vision is to facilitate an online world where anyone can create and remix information easily.
