“Kontain is a free destination for visitors to blog and share photos, videos and audio with friends, family and even beautiful strangers. The launch of Kontain is a major milestone for Fi, and is the result of 10 years company experience in the interactive and web industries.”

With better functionality than Humble Voice, more of a blog than deviantART, and easier than making it yourself, F-i’s Kontain.com provides an easy way for artists, designers, developers, and anyone in between to showcase their latest works. Kontain’s incredibly easy, 2 second sign up makes it just about impossible for curious and possible member-to-be to pass up.

Kontain currently has the ability to link to Twitter through third party connection settings. Soon a users of Konatin will be able to link their accounts to FaceBook as well. The site allows you not only to ‘Kontain’ your life, but to also:

• Upload photo, video, and audio
• Explore the most popular posts on the site
• Search media and posts by keyword
• Organize you updates, comments and media through a personal dashboard
• See you ratings and popularity
• Comment on other user’s blog and media posts
• Edit privacy controls

Future features will consist of the ability to post in high-res, creation if media galleries and collections, messaging, groups, and more.

“Openfilm is changing the world of online video entertainment. Whether it’s an animated short, comedy, documentary or other type of film, we are THE source for the highest quality video content on the Web!”(Openfilm.com)

Didn’t even have to stumble this website; as such I’m not even sure how I came about it but I’m elated that I did.  Open film is online video sharing website which gives talented animators, filmmakers, and directors a voice in the social media sphere.  The word talented is highlighted because places like YouTube promote repetition and idiocy whereas OpenFilm creativity, innovation, and community.

“Openfilm is focused on ‘user-generated films’ – original, high-quality live-action and animated videos with high production values and artistic merit, from shorts and web series to feature-length films. The site is closing the gap created by sites where anyone can upload anything and sites that primarily showcase Hollywood studio productions.” (Openfilm.com)

OpenFilm opened officially (though it still says in Beta like Google does) and since then has accumulated over 1,300 high-quality creative videos and animations.  OpenFilm prides itself on the resolution and quality of all of the videos on their website and not only implement a high-definition video player but also give each video a thorough screening process before posting videos to their website.  OpenFilm offers users visually appealing profile pages where users can connect with one another and keep updated with videos as authors add them to the website.

The website showcases a series of Channels based on categories created by the website publishers.  The website is broken down into subject areas based on the people uploading the videos: animators, comedians, directors, film festivals, film schools, and musicians.

The site showcases a fast-growing collection of high quality live-action and animated films displayed in high resolution. Openfilm provides a venue for users to watch premium video content, as well as for filmmakers to exhibit their works, and to enjoy a full-featured, social networking forum between viewers and creators.

OpenFilm offers its users the ability to take their videos on their website and send them to employers, contests, and contests without worrying about any judgment being based on the quality and resolution of the video (like they would with Youtube or any other low-resolution flash based video sharing site).

“Openfilm is focused on ‘user-generated films’ – original, high-quality live-action and animated videos with high production values and artistic merit, from shorts and web series to feature-length films. The site is closing the gap created by sites where anyone can upload anything and sites that primarily showcase Hollywood studio productions.”(Openfilm.com)

If any of you reading this article are into MotionGraphics, Cinematography, or Filmmaking, check out OpenFilm.com , make an account and upload your work!

Mix Turtle is an online Music search engine that was released (I believe) in October and provides a web/browser based system for users to peruse their favorite songs and create relevant playlists according to their personal preferences.  Where Mix Turtle succeeds and what sets it apart from something like Pandora and Songza is that not only is it free to use, it doesn’t suffer from the same server hiccups as Songza (youtube always seems to crap out when Songza is querying it for songs for reasons I can’t fathom).  It’s managed to deliver high quality streaming music at relativily quick speeds on top of providing me with diverse song results.  For anyone who listens to music and hates dealing with copyright laws and downloading issues, give it a go.  You can check out the website at: Mixturtle.com

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Creaktif Website Splashpage

I stumbled across this website a long time ago, booked marked it, and had completely forgotten about it till I was cleaning out my Stumble account.  I decided to scroll through my websites tagged with “creative webdesign” and found this one (Lucky me for not deleting the link).  The Creaktif website is the online portfolio of a four person French based design team.  They work includes motion graphics, print design, street art, web design, and other creative goodies.  I am personally jealous of their amazing skill at making use of traditional collage art while combining it with design trends such as vector art and animation.  They have an exceptional sense of color, movement, and composition and for all of these reasons Creativefluff has chosen this website as “Website of the Day”.  Feel free to submit your websites for review and possible victory of this coveted award.