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Written by: Shadeed Eleazer

The Federal Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, has announced that the Federal Govt will officially begin the usage of cloud computing.

In accordance with this announcement, Kundra has revealed a new government site Apps.gov. This site is the location where you can find pre-approved cloud computing applications that are to be used by agencies, departments, components, and sections.

Applications are broken down into 4 categories:

Business Applications which contains 33 sub-topics

Productivity Applications which contains 7 sub-topics

Cloud IT Services which contains 4 sub-topics

Social Media Applications which contains 9 sub-topics

The government is making a big push with the adoption of approved social media applications.

FriendFeed, YouTube,  MySpace, TwitVid (video app for Twitter), and photo sharing application Flickr are all subsequent to open enrollment.

Implications

Cloud computing will greatly reduce IT costs within the federal government. There will be issues to be ironed out with security issues and policies will have to established in Phase 1 of this new approach to computing within the federal sector.

Written by: Shadeed Eleazer

Animoto has announced the addition to video clips to Animoto videos.

The process is broken down into 3 steps:

1. Upload clips from your camera or phone  or leverage Animoto’s collection consisting of iStockphoto and Getty Images
2. Choose your highlights. You can choose highlights of up to 10 seconds each
3. Create the rest of your video as normal, and you’re done.

Sample videos can be found here: http://animoto.com/video