Merge and Manage Your Media with Oosah
May 19, 2008
Oooooosaaaahhhhh! I just keep saying this site’s name over and over again. Ooooosaaahhhhhh!Okay, okay, I’ll stop. Anyway, Oosah is a neat Web-based application that lets you upload photos, music and videos — or use the media you already have uploaded to your Flickr, Facebook and YouTube accounts — to make multimedia slideshows, which they call “oosahs.”
But Oosah is more than just a place to make slideshows, it’s also an entire Web-based file management system. And, you have 2 gigs of space to play with for free! You can upload your photos directly to the site and easily manage them, or use it to safely store your videos and music files — whatever you want!
Oosah is emphatically not a file sharing site, like Mediafire or YouSendIt, though; it’s a user-generated content hosting, management, and sharing site. The content you or your students put on Oosah is only available for others to see if you make it public. And even the content you make public can only be viewed by others on Oosah, not downloaded or accessed in any other way. It’s open to anyone who is at least 13 years old and it has an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, so it’s the perfect place for your students to manage their media and get creative with slideshows and multimedia.
Keep in mind, though, that Oosah is still in beta, so expect some kinks here and there. I had a little trouble using photos from my Flickr and Facebook accounts to make a slideshow, but uploading files directly to the site worked super smoothly.
Oooooosaaaahhhhh! That was the last one, I promise. -LAUREN FROHNE
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