MediaNotes 1.1 Released
After many late nights, at least a hundred unforeseen bugs (several of which were of the "pound your head on the table until you bleed variety") and absolutely no coffee (this is a joint project with BYU) Blue Mango Learning Systems is proud to officially announce the release of MediaNotes 1.1. Ahh..there is nothing like the feeling of shipping software. This represents the first commercial release of MediaNotes.
Many people ask me what MediaNotes does and, to be honest, I haven't been able to come up with a succinct way of stating what it does. But I think that I finally have it: "MediaNotes doesn't let you lie."
Why would people lie when reviewing video performances? Because in the past it has been too hard to tell the truth. It was easier to give vague, unspecific feedback. It was too hard to be precise.
Not anymore.
When you are analyzing a performance in MediaNotes the actual actions are right there in front of you. There is no opportunity to be vague. MediaNotes makes it easy and efficient to provide specific, detailed feedback. We spent a lot of time trying to make sure that the features you use in your everyday analysis would be simple and straightforward. We hope that is what we have achieved.
We would like to thank Larry Farmer and Gerald Williams at the Brigham Young University School of Law for all of their help in getting MediaNotes to this point (MediaNotes was developed through a joint partnership between BYU and Blue Mango Learning Systems). The concept of MediaNotes originated with them and Raymond Robinson at BYU. We have had a great collaborative relationship which has really improved the software.
A special thanks has to go out to Trevor DeVore of Blue Mango Learning Systems. He has spent countless hours making sure that MediaNotes was "right". This was a pretty ambitious project, especially releasing cross platform versions (for Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X). But he bravely blazed new trails and I think that the resulting software is quite impressive.
Let us know what you think. You can download MediaNotes and register for a free 30-day trial at the MediaNotes website. You can also view some tutorials of how to use MediaNotes here.
At Blue Mango Learning Systems our primary focus is to make communication through media more efficient. With MediaNotes 1.1 we hope that we have taken a major step forward towards that goal.
Greg DeVore CEO Blue Mango Learning Systems