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Dropr: Put together a snazzy portfolio of your creative work

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

The Internet is a perfect medium to showcase your artistic skills to the world. But creating an Online Portfolio of your art can be a messy affair. It’s difficult to showcase your Content across individual platforms like WordPress, Tumblr Blog or even Facebook. A UK-based startup now has a solution for that.

Dropr is striving to build a single platform for all creative heads to showcase their art in the form of portfolios. Dropr has been around for a while but is coming out of Beta now. You can showcase your photos, drawings, videos, text, music, almost anything.

It’s simple to work with. The user has to create an account on Dropr. He/she can connect through Facebook, Twitter or Google Account or create a new account for Dropr. After that the user can connect his/her various profiles from sites like Flickr, Vimeo, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, MySpace & Behance. Connecting through these profiles not only gives the exposure but also an easy way to import content.

At Dropr’s social stream you can see profiles & portfolios of other users based on the likes & interest of the user. This dashboard helps the user to find inspirational content by other users which will in turn help him to create a portfolio for himself. In the dashboard the user can manage messages & interactions with other users.

Creating a portfolio is pretty simple. There is a wide variety of templates available to choose from to display content in beautiful designs. The user can also invite members to create his portfolio. This comes in handy when working on multiple projects.

The user can also share HTML5 & flash contents to the portfolio but they have to be uploaded in .zip format. The user can work on multiple projects as there is no limit to create projects this way there is any need to switch multiple accounts. By using a simple iFrame code the user can showcase the work on other portals.

The interface is simple & engaging which helps to create impressive portfolios & it’s free. Also, once created, the portfolio will look the same across all devices.

Image Credit: Dropr

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Kaia offers thought platform in between tweets and blog posts

Posted on February 5, 2014 by

Developer, UI designer & writer Damien Sowers has come up with a new blog platform called Kaia, which he calls a place for your thoughts.

The basic concept is that Kaia is supposed to bridge the divide between micro-blogging & traditional blogging platforms.

Sowers explains that the world is likely missing out on a lot of interesting thoughts & ideas because they don’t fit either platform. What do you do, he asks, with a thought that’s too big for a 140-character tweet but too small for a 400-word blog post?

The only choice you have is either to abandon the thought or fill the piece up with fluff & make it bloated to fill the expected word count.

If we feel guilty for being terse with our writing, you know there’s something wrong with the tools available to us if we feel guilty for being terse with our writing,according to Sowers.

Which is why the creator of Silvrback has now come up with Kaia, which lets you create individual thought pages to which you can add video & image headers.

You can select a global image/video such as your profile image that you want to use on every thought, which makes moot the bothersome hassle of finding an image or video for every post.  Of course, you can add a unique image or video to a thought if you want to.

In fact, you can create a Kaia thought by embedding a cluster of full-width images & adding a couple of lines as a caption or to summarize what you see in the images.

No doubt all this can be done with any blog platform, & you can read the individual thought pages on Kaia just like a blog.  But it’s intended to be read by your followers aka thought subscribers as a feed & is integrated into Twitter to allow for sharing. There’s also a propagate button that lets you spread a thought to your followers.

A thought that gets propagated & liked ends up on the “Best of Kaia” feed, which will give the thought a lot more exposure. The feed is customizable to allow for segmentation from the main feed & creation of smart lists.

Kaia, like the Svbtle-inspired Silvrback, has presumably been created to offer the world what the South Lake Tahoe, Calif.-based Sowers himself is looking for in a blogging platform. Kaia is currently available only to invited bloggers.

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