Well, the interwebs were good to us last week! Here are four cool new (or newish) tools for interacting, finding and presenting images and videos on the web

Diigo made some updates to their Firefox Plugin with some cool tips on how to customize it to save space on the toolbar. I use Diigo because it has some more sophisticated notation, collaboration and tracking tools than del.icio.us. Now, don’t for a nanosecond mistake that as in any way dissing del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is my default bookmark toolbar in Firefox. And the simplicity of it’s interface and organization makes it PERFECT for that. One thing that makes Diigo great is it’s ability to add bookmarks TO del.icio.us as well as Diigo.

Dawson found this cool photo sharing tool that seems to combine the greatness of Flickr and Picnic in one slick platform. Photoshop Express is pretty easy to use and mirrors well the Adobe Bridge interface. Probably similar to Lightroom, but I haven’t upgraded to that yet… Uploads are quick and easy. Photo manipulation is simple with a series of graduated options for changing things like exposure and white balance on your images.

On demand media meets the Family Guy with Hulu.com. Video is the king of the Internet and until now TV wasn’t part of that domain. They have Family Guy, American Dad, House, and (Holy CRAP!) Doogie Houser MD, Airwolf, The A-Team!!! There goes my week… You can even embed your favorite video on your favorite blog! Last night I watched an episode of American Dad and only had a couple 30 second Sudafed commercials to sit through! According to Wired, “Hulu, the $100 million video-streaming venture from News Corp. and NBC, has its headquarters in Hollywood — and engineers in Beijing.”

Blinkx.com is a video search and aggregation tool that has the cool embeddable collage function you see below. It searches all the sites, MySpace, Viddler, Veoh, Yahoo Video, YouTube and even Broadband Sports. This is a really good way to showcase your videos, all your friends videos and every other video you find amusing! You just do a search, add videos to your playlist and “wall it.” There’s no login, so you don’t even need to create another social media account!

Awesome!! Check it out. The Web is big, What did we miss last week? What are we going to see this week? If you find something share it with us on del.icio.us or diigo.com.

-Mike

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