Flip Media continues to achieve outstanding results with significant new account Wins, new staff appointments and ambitious expansion plans at the close of Q3.

17th October 2006, Dubai (UAE): It’s shaping up to be a record year for Flip Media, as the Middle East’s largest independent interactive agency celebrates continued success at the close of Q3.

In the last quarter, Flip Media have won a number of significant new accounts including Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Dubai Festival City, Du Telecom, i2 and Qatar Airways. According to Yousef Tuqan Tuqan, Account Director “We are very proud of our new account wins as they represent great opportunities for us to develop strong online creative campaigns and excellent long term potential for the agency. Flip Media’s depth of capabilities and reputation has made us the natural first choice for many leading regional and international brands.”

Additionally, further enhancements to a number of core Flip Media products have ensured that one-stop interactive media solutions for clients have become more seamless. With the introduction of the third version of Chameleon, Flip Media’s content management solution and e-Commerce server platform, clients will be able to more easily integrate content, media, online shopping and user participation into their websites. Additionally, the latest version of Brand Central, Flip Media’s proprietary ad-serving and tracking tool, allows regional advertisers to have unrivalled access to every aspect of their online campaign, in real time.

In order to support the continued growth of their client base, as well as gearing up for further expansion in the region, Flip Media have been additionally resourcing all of their teams. The agency’s Bahrain office is now fully operational and ambitious plans are underway to double the capacity of both production and creative teams. The latest high profile appointment to the team sees award winning Creative Director Arvind Krishnan joining to oversee creative output, and Business Development Director Eiad Rayyis to enhance sales capabilities.

According to Martin Diessner, CEO, Flip Media “2006 has proved to be an outstanding year for the whole team at Flip Media and as our results show, it is on track to be our best yet. We’re excited by the huge potential in both the region and the online industry, and we will maximize every opportunity that we can. I am confident that we will close Q4 with similarly spectacular results, building on our significant achievements made in the first three quarters of this year.”

For further information about Flip Media please visit: www.flipcorp.com

About Flip Media:

Flip Media was founded in 2002 and has offices in Dubai, Bahrain, India and Germany. A wholly owned subsidiary of Flip Holding Ltd. Flip Media is the largest, independent, interactive media consultancy in the Middle East, providing award winning creative work to regional and international accounts. Flip Media also develops unique interactive media products and technologies, such as streaming broadband services, 3rd party verified and online media tracking services for advertising and media agencies in conjunction with technology partners and affiliates. Flip Holding Ltd. is a privately owned company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).

Flip Media FZ-LLC
Dubai Media City, Loft Offices Bldg 1, #210
PO Box 502372
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Telephone: +971(4) 391 1612
Facsimile: +971(4) 391 2384
Website: www.flipholding.com
Email: info [at] flipcorp [dot] com

I was always a big fan of Justin Frankel the creator of the most famous mp3 player Winamp. After he left AOL I didnt read much about his whereabouts. Now I checked and surprised to see a cool software being released by him. REAPER is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio.

If you look some of the features you will be stunned it is amazingly cool.

Fast and powerful editing facilities

• Tool-less mouse interface — spend less time clicking
• Drag and drop files to instantly import them into a project
• Support for mixing any combination of file type/samplerate/bit depth/etc on each track
• Easily split, move, and resize items
• Each item has easily manipulated fades and volume
• Configurable and editable automatic crossfading of overlapping items
• Per-item pitch shift and time stretch
• Arbitrary item grouping - easily group any number of items across any number of tracks (great for drum editing)
• Markers and envelopes can be moved in logical sync with editing operations
• Ripple editing - moving/deletion of items can optionally affect later items
• Multiple tempos and time signatures per project
• Ability to define regions, and quickly move/copy regions (and their contents), to quickly try out alternate arrangements
• Automation envelopes for volume, pan, and plug-in parameters
• Configurable locking settings (lock items, envelopes, loop selection, etc, independently)

Outstanding routing capabilities

• Tracks can be viewed and used as normal tracks, or….
• Each track can function as a track and as a bus
• Each track can send to any number of other tracks (unlimited multiple parallel sends^*)
• Each track can send to any number of hardware outputs (mono or stereo) for monitoring or analog mixing
• Every send can send audio and/or MIDI, audio sends can be before FX, after FX, or after the track’s volume/pan faders
• Every send has its own volume/pan/phase controls
• Tracks can have as many as 64 channels, for easy support of multi-out VSTi, as well as enormous sidechain flexibility
• Routing Matrix window for easy viewing and changing of routing
• Feedback routing is supported

Powerful recording options

• Direct multi-track recording to all supported formats, including WAV/W64/BWF, MIDI, WavPack, FLAC, and OGG
• Record monitoring allows you to run FX on inputs and route them while stopped and/or while recording
• Per-track record monitoring settings: off, on, tape auto style (monitoring when recording, not monitoring when playing)
• Per-track record mode selection (can record input, mixed track output, track MIDI output, or just monitor+route only)
• Change any track’s record arming, input, monitoring, or record mode at any time (even while recording)
• Supports auto-punch in/out, and multi-item/multi-track auto-punch
• Supports looped recording adding takes
• Can record entire mixed (live) output
• Automatically add recorded items to any existing items as new takes
• Automatic gapless file switching to avoid 2GB/4GB filesystem limits

MIDI support

• MIDI files can be inserted in any track
• Piano roll MIDI editor with velocity, pitch, and CC controls
• Support for multi-track recording/monitoring of any MIDI hardware input
• Any number of tracks can send to any MIDI hardware output
• Support for VSTi/DXi softsynths and VST MIDI fx
• Support for MIDI sending/receiving to ReWire devices
• Support for recording a track’s output (audio or MIDI) independent of what input is selected (meaning you can record live the audio output of a softsynth from a MIDI source, or even more interestingly record the MIDI output of ReaGate from a live (audio) input)

Customizable user interface

• Configurable shortcut keys — customize the keyboard keys to work the way you are used to, or use REAPER’s intuitive default mapping
• Color themes: change the way REAPER appears to meet your tastes, or choose one of nearly 50 themes included
• User arrangeable user interface. The following windows can be hidden, docked, or floated to meet your needs:
  • Track mixer view
  • Transport controls
  • Undo history
  • Media explorer
  • Routing matrix
  • Navigator
  • FX browser
  • Track FX chains
  • Performance meter
  • more!

Bundled Effects and 3rd party plug-in Support

• Flexible FX chains allow unlimited FX per track^*
• Full plug-in delay compensation (PDC), even with all combinations of routing
• Realtime FX processing
• Offline FX processing (Apply FX to item as new take)
• Supports VST/VSTi plug-ins
• Supports DX/DXi plug-ins
• Supports ReWire enabled applications
• Includes ReaGate, a sidechain-enabled noisegate
• Includes ReaComp, a sidechain-enabled compressor
• Includes ReaFIR, an FFT EQ+dynamics processor
• Includes ReaVerb, a convolution reverb
• Includes many user-programmable Jesusonic effects
• For a more complete list, see the REAPER Technical Specifications

Pheww!!! Is this enough or you need more. I was playing around with that software and it very fast, light and real time. I was trying to create some nasty remix yesterday night disturbing all my neighbours ;-). The best part was I converted around 17 mp3 tracks into wav and imported them in Reaper as individual tracks and having fun cutting and with filters etc. With 512 mb ram it was working fine. If you need more fun with sound you must check out this software. Worth buying the software if you are real music neird :-P.

I am totally surprised to see my blog Alexa rank. To show off I have put the traffic icon on the side ;-). And I am happy to see some lines here and there in my blog traffic graph of Alexa

More blogging more fun.!!!!

Today bbpress 0.72 was released. From using wordpress sometime now I can say it is most extensible blogging software. I have used so many forums and I am gonna try bbPress for the first time. And I have already started reading the code and it is really beautiful.. Trying to learn its plugin functions Soon shall release some crappy plugin..

This is a late news but a good one. Google has released pinging service for blogs. This service can be used to inform the latest updates happening in your blog. Worpress used pingomatic to inform all the blogs ping services. So by default all wordpress blogs see that the latest post are updated to blogs search engines.

If your blog is not listed in our results, we want to hear about it.

Enter your blog’s web or feed address below and we’ll do our best to add it to our index as quickly as possible.

- Google

I was shocked to see that Google has updated my last post. This is good :-D.

Google Blog Ping Service,Google Blog Search, About Google Blog Search Pinging Service, About Google Blog Search Pinging Service API… Happy blogging

I came across one interesting article at seo by the sea where it says Google has submitted 6 new patents for personalized search. You can say it as an intelligent search if you are not worried about your privacy. One part of the patent filings goes into detail on some possibilities. Here are some details of how a search might be modified by this personalization system: 

• A search query is received by the search engine which runs the query against the document repository.
• After the results are received, they are adjusted based upon information from the user’s history.
• Results that are present in a user’s history could be added to the results presented to the user.
• The order of the search results can be adjusted in accordance with a history score and/or any user-modified result score.
• Scores like the search result score and the history score can be combined and with search results is reordered displayed based on that combined score.
• A searcher may be shown an indication showing previously visited pages, including things like the date and time a page was previously visited and the number of times that the user has visited the site within a certain period of time.
• A certain number of the most highly ranked results that a searcher has previously visited could be displayed in a area above the search results, or in another section of the page, or even in a separate window.
• Those previously visited pages may be ordered based upon different ranking criteria, such as a history score, pagerank, time of last access, number of accesses, or others.
• In addition to previously visited pages, a user’s previous query sessions and/or session groups may also be shown along with the search results and ordered as described above.
• Search results which a searcher has seen in the page, and which have been clicked upon can be boosted higher in the set of search results.
• A user’s browsing activities can be considered in addition to, or in lieu of, past presentation and click through of particular search results. For example, if a location was previously visited by a user, it could have its score boosted, based upon the number of times the user has visited the location. So, a site that is bookmarked and visited frequently may rank higher than one which has been searched for and selected in search results.
• Search results that were previously presented to searchers but not clicked through could be demoted in the results.
• As an alternative, instead of reordering search results, a history score could be used to determining whether a result is shown with some type of visual indicator such as a change of color or through the use of highlighting.
• The order of some pages showing in search results could be boosted higher if the searcher has visited or clicked on results from related sites or pages.
• The amount of times that past queries have retrieved a certain set of results, and how long ago those happened, could also affect the placement of a document in search results.
• A searcher’s history could be used to identify additional search results. For example, results in a searcher’s history not appearing in a set of results but which were retrieved by similar queries could be added to the results. It’s possible that these might be displayed in a different area of the screen than the initially identified search results.
• Additional queries might be suggested, possibly even similar queries that were previously submitted by the user. The similarity of these additional queries might be calculated a number of ways, such as by edit distance, stemming operations, correction of obviously misspelled words, semantic mapping, similarity of the retrieved document sets, and others.
• Queries could also be suggested from the user’s history which were submitted immediately following or preceding the query at issue, in the same query sessions or session group from that history.
• Queries could be run from different document source repositories. For example, if a searcher runs a web search, and they’ve done a similar search for a product review, they may be given the option of running the query in a product review repository.

From the above points you can say every click and every mouse move on Google website is logged. In the future they will do like we have personalized the website template based on your search :-D. I think with the help of orkut.com they will get to know what kind of friends I have or try to get, my environment, my style, etc etc. Now they have bought youtube so more tracking for Google ;-). After watching the video `Cutting Edge 04-07-06 Google Behind The Screen` I have stopped using my gmail account and I am slowly moving away from it, as I am more worried about my privacy and me being monitored all the time :-(.