Web-based multimedia suite Aviary invites beta testers
 

*Source: News.com (http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-973...547-1_3-0-20)*
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That clip above is a demonstration of the newly announced Aviary (http://www.creationonthefly.com/), a suite of Web tools for tackling "creation on the fly" (the product's motto and URL). You can think of it as having a similar goal for the creative crowd to what Zoho (http://www.zoho.com/) aims to do for organizational productivity: create a diverse set of light but still functional Web-based applications that allow for portability and collaboration. When the suite is final, it will optimally include over a dozen apps, each named after a different kind of bird. Each one will handle a different niche of multimedia editing, from typography to audio editing to monetizing the content you create (think CafePress on steroids). They'll all be compatible so that you can use multiple apps on the same Aviary project, and you'll be able to collaborate with other Aviary users, Google Apps-style.

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