We just won a rather prestigious “Stevie” award from the American Business Association for NikonUSA.com! I’ll be adding “award-winning developer” to the site sometime very soon. Congrats everyone involved for some fine work! I’ll have photos and such in a follow-up soon.

What a cool application! Moodstream lets you create and save a multimedia “moodboard” based on criteria you choose via dragging around some sliders at left. You wind up with a multimedia show from which you can select and capture different pieces of media.

This makes me wonder how they associate the metadata you’re selecting against with these pieces and how do they decide just how much that metadata applies? For example, if I crank down the “sad” slider, how does the application know that a video clip is more (or less) sad than any other piece in the repository? Is it weighted? Tagged? Do they let users themselves decide by seeing how many “sad” moodboards attract a certain image or by letting them rate how “sad” an image is somewhere else? (Or, maybe more “sad” just means fewer and fewer “happy” images appear in the rotation.)

One of the cooler apps I’ve seen in a while and an excellent way of promoting people to buy your stock media by bubbling up clips that they may not ordinarily find through an innovative way of filtering.

Thanks to the always-spectacular Information Aesthetics blog for digging this up.

Tags: design, moodboard, getty, multimedia, flash