Clipped analyzes text grammatically to extract the most important information from an article. The algorithm identifies sentence structures statisitically, and graphically determines predicate-subject relationships to generate the best bullet-point summaries possible. Plus, Clipped re-reads all of its own summaries to make sure they make sense.

Use Clipped to search for anything and immediately discover relevant articles in a summarized format.

One of the drawbacks of a wholehearted conversion to ebooks is the loss of the personal library, without which spontaneous title browsing and recommendation-making among friends is less likely to occur. Ownshelf aims to keep this tradition alive by replicating the physical library in digital space. The platform essentially provides a Dropbox-esque storage space where users can upload their complete ebooks—preferably, fair use ones—to build a shareable “ebookshelf.” Members can then browse and borrow from their friends’ e-libraries as easily as if they were picking physical books off a shelf, perpetuating the social element of physical book-share culture.

Becoming Bookish [Cassandra Daily]

Broadcast for Friends is a mobile app, created by popular lifestreaming service Ustream, which allows users to broadcast on their Facebook Timelines live footage as it is recorded on their mobile phones in real-time. There is no time limit, and Instagram-like filters can be applied to correct the lighting or complement the mood of the event.

Life, Camera, Action! [Cassandra Daily]

ContactMonkey allow your contacts to download your contact information as quickly, seamlessly and accurately as possible. People will have no problem importing your contact details: ContactMonkey supports address books everywhere. By listing your information on ContactMonkey, you’ll be provided with a Web page where your contact info will be listed. Visitors of your page are then able to view your info, as well as given the option to download your contact card by clicking on one of the 19 different devices or programs supported by ContactMonkey. By supporting so many different contact card formats, ContactMonkey ensures your information is available to anyone, even if they’re viewing your info on a smartphone.

iPhone app StopMotion Recorder is a point-and-click tool for creating homemade animated films in minutes. After setting up their movie’s starring objects, users tap the screen to shoot a photo, then can reposition the objects using the precision guide (or take more careful manual shots using the Onion Skin feature). A function called Clap mode triggers a shot when a loud noise is made so the positioning of the camera need not be disturbed.

Mobile apps help budding animators create their own stop motion films [TrendCentral]

Relive those memorable moments by turning your video footage into a delightful hand crafted flip book with MyFlipBooks! It’s a great little idea to convert video clips into flip books delivered to your door in 1 week. You can upload any video clip and in 4 simple steps you’re done!

Your child’s first steps, favourite sporting moments, birthdays, holidays, gifts, business promotions – in fact just about anything can be turned into a flipbook. Share them with your loved ones, entertain your friends or just get creative.

TrendCentral: Curation and crowdsourcing are the key concepts behind Jelli, an app that offers choosy listeners a collective, collaborative radio experience. Jelli provides a centralized portal for preexisting radio frequencies, putting a station’s playlist on display and giving listeners the opportunity to vote songs up or down in the rotation. This democratized approach takes the radio DJ out of the equation (as predicted by Tom Petty); in essence, every track played is a request. Listeners also have the power to stop a song mid-play, turning traditional radio programming into a sort of Gong Show for the airwaves (and striking fear into the hearts of Beliebers everywhere).

What’s Your Frequency? [TrendCentral]

Springwise: The ability to direct a live video shoot across multiple cameras in real-time has historically been a luxury reserved for professionally equipped directors. However, once again, app-based technology has turned a well-established norm on its head. Offering the same capability to anyone in possession of a smartphone or tablet, we recently came across CollabraCam.

To use the app, between two and four iPhones, iPod Touches or iPads can be connected via wifi. The director of the shoot will then be able to view all the cameras’ streams on his or her device, and select which footage should be visible on the main video stream at any one given time. Cameras can also be put on standby in order to prepare them for the next shot, and the director can silently issue instructions such as pan and track movements to camera operators via a display on their screen.

App enables live video direction across multiple mobile devices [Springwise]

Springwise: Italian 2Spaghi.it has launched the SpagoGuida 2011, a physical directory of restaurants that links to online reviews.

The guide is available from the company’s website for EUR 15.90, and offers listings of over 1,000 restaurants throughout Italy. Each listing is provided with a QR code, which — when scanned by a smartphone with the appropriate software — links to that restaurant’s page on the 2Spaghi.it website. These pages are populated with user-generated content, providing the reader with the latest opinions from the 2Spaghi.it community and allowing them to provide feedback on their own experience.

Restaurant Guidebook Links Online Content for Fresh Revenue [Springwise]

Chip Chick: Kodak is a company looking towards the future of picture sharing. Introducing a new line of products that focuses on accessing and sharing photos through social networks and e-mail, Kodak products are moving away from the old way of sharing pictures and videos and into a new realm.

The new booths feature improved sharing features and easier, better photo retouching. In the past, you had to bring your camera’s SD card to the kiosk in order to print out copies. With the new kiosks, you can even access your photos stored online using Kodak Gallery, Facebook, or Picasa Web Albums.

Aside from making it easy to access your photos, the picture booths also make it easy to retouch your photos–kind of like a simplified version of Photoshop that anyone could figure out. Some uber cool features include Pet Eye Retouch and Facial Retouch.

The new photo kiosks will be available in July 2010.

New Kodak Picture Kiosks Help You Share and Print [Chip Chick]

Let your tweets exist in real world! TweetBookz allows you to create and order high quality books of your tweets. Soft and hard cover versions are available in four unique designs. The books have full color covers and inside pages of black and white. Each one stands 5.5 inches high and 8.5 inches wide and features up to 200 of your tweets, one per page, starting from the most recent. You can chose to remove any tweets you don’t want included. All tweets are printed in America on 100% recycled paper.