Totally Hip Announces Formation of World Wide QuickTime Wired Media Experts Group
Posted on 05-12-00
New Team Provides Professional Expertise, Advice, Support and Promotion of Totally Hip's QuickTime Wired Media Tools On the Web and at Industry Related Events
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Vancouver, BC., Canada (May 12, 2000) (CDNX:THW)--Marking another step in its strategy to drive next generation QuickTime wired media design and development
tools for the desktop professional and corporate Web designer, Totally Hip Software Inc, today announced the Company has formed a professional consulting team of 16
world-renowned leading QuickTime Wired Media Experts to promote and provide expert advice on QuickTime and the use of Totally Hip's products, including LiveStage
Professional and the recently released LiveSlideShow to design, develop and create QuickTime wired media content for the Web. The founding members of the Totally
Hip Wired Media Experts Group currently consists of 16 individuals from 8 countries and forms the basis of Totally Hip's expanding presence as a leader in QuickTime
authoring tools around the globe and on the Web. These individuals will continue to provide technical and marketing consulting services to the Company and the
Company's management and directors have agreed to grant incentive stock options to each individual as a form of incentive and compensation. The granting of these
incentive stock options to these individuals is subject to exchange and regulatory approval.
"In the past four months we have been able to increase our sales revenues and keep our costs in line as part of our continued strategy to target the growing QuickTime
wired developer community. These industry experts and many other leading professionals rely on LiveStage Professional for their development of interactive QuickTime
wired web content. They make up the nucleus of a growing trend worldwide to deliver valuable instructional assistance, promotion and expert advice to QuickTime and
LiveStage Professional users. Their valuable expertise demonstrates that our authoring tools have built a solid reputation with a growing installed base of professional
users around the globe. As this community grows, we expect our revenue growth to continue. As we add new products and services over the next year this group will
grow to include new members," said Randall H. McCallum, Chairman, CEO & President, Totally Hip. "The Wired Media Experts Group is a terrific way of welcoming and
educating new users to the benefits of LiveStage Professional and QuickTime for web development. The contributions and expertise of these professional industry
experts will further educate existing customers and many new users on getting the most out of our family of QuickTime Web design products."
"The Wired Media Experts was formed to serve as an extended support, marketing and promotional services group to assist Totally Hip to promote, educate and support
the use of QuickTime Wired media," said David Dicaire, COO & General Manager Totally Hip. "This new consulting group includes industry-recognized veterans and
experienced professional QuickTime developers that have exception experience and understanding of LiveStage Professional, LiveSlideShow and other QuickTime related
tools. Developer tools become popular with professionals only if the tool serves a purpose and provides exceptional extended benefits to developers in a growing
community. LiveStage Professional has established itself as the QuickTime authoring tool of choice for professionals because this group has actively assisted to
promote and support LiveStage to developers worldwide. They continue to assist many web developers, educators, and corporations on a worldwide basis, and this
assistance encourages product sales and growth of our developer community and we want to provide them with a proper incentives and forum to allow them to further
promote QuickTime Wired Media."
Totally Hip Wired Media Experts
Eight of the sixteen founding members of the Wired Media Experts Group include:
Michael Shaff of La Honda CA; Ian Mantripp of Ohain Belgium; Matthew Peterson of Berkeley CA; Brennan Young of Copenhagen Denmark; Mike Matson of
Sussex England; Erik Fohlin of Falun Sweden; David Gratton and Guillaume Iacino of Vancouver BC. The Wired Media Experts group includes other professionals in
Europe and the Pacific Rim regions and Totally Hip plans to expand the group to include a number of new professional members in the next 6 months. The Company
and members of the Wired Media Experts are developing a new Web site dedicated to QuickTime Wired Media and LiveStage Professional and LiveSlideShow and other
QuickTime tools. A formal announcement and a full list of Wired Media Experts, with full bios and reference material will be made available when the new Wired Media
Experts Web site is officially launched on the Web in the next month.
These Wired Media Experts currently provide expert advice, guidance and marketing promotion to individuals, web designers, universities, businesses and corporations
from around the world to learn the many facets and techniques of QuickTime wired content development using LiveStage Professional. This new group will continue to
promote and expose the many benefits of LiveStage Professional and QuickTime wired media content and provide daily expert advice on the popular LiveStage-Talk list
and QuickTime-Talk list servers.
Michael Shaff, President of Smallhands.com
http://www.smallhands.com/
Michael Shaff, of La Honda CA is an industry recognized expert and frequent speaker at MacWorld and other industry trade show events. Michael previously held
research, design specialist and technical positions at Rockwell International - Palo Alto Research Lab, Stanford University - Meyer Media Library and Silicon Graphics,
Inc. from 1988 before founding Small Hands.com in 1997. Michael has provided three LiveStage training Seminars in the past year and his expert services and talent are
sought by major corporations such as Apple Computer, WalMart, and other corporatations to create, assemble and manage the development of world-class QuickTime
powered Web sites created using LiveStage Professional. This summer, Michael Shaff will be teaching the "LiveStage Professional Training Seminar" in Hawaii to
LiveStage Professional and QuickTime enthusiasts, Web designers and corporate designers to empower them to leverage the full potential of QuickTime and wired
media content.
"Wired QuickTime has dramatically lowered Small Hands' development and production time. Using LiveStage Pro I quickly harness QuickTime's power to produce
prototypes through final product. QuickTime technology let's
Small Hands' easily re-purpose content for Web, CD, kiosk, or hybrid delivery."
"That's just one of the strengths of QuickTime development. In being a small Company, it is paramount that we can reuse projects, media, and processes to keep our
costs down. It's a very exciting time to be creative! In the LiveStage Pro environment I bring together and choreograph QuickTime media types such as Flash, MIDI,
streaming or local video, MP3 or QDesign audio, Pure Voice audio, wired sprite, 3D virtual reality panorama movies, or objects to create a rich, vivid user experiences."
Matthew Peterson, Institute Scientist at the M.I.N.D. Institute
University of California at Berkeley
http://neurovision.berkeley.edu/matthew/
Matthew Peterson of Berkeley, CA has degrees in Electrical Engineering, Biology and Chinese Linguistics and is just finishing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the
University of California at Berkeley. As an Institute Scientist at the M.I.N.D. Institute, he is the principal investigator in the Spatial Temporal Reasoning Project where
multimedia software is used to develop the ways children think in space and time. Matthew is also instrumental in bringing QuickTime technology to research science to
aid in experimental monitoring, data collecting and analysis. Matthew is the developer of the popular QT Chat, a new QuickTime movie based Web chat conferencing
movie that plays with Apple's QuickTime player. Matthew developed QT Chat using LiveStage Professional and has developed many Qscript Behaviors and other
QuickTime based programs for use by other QuickTime developers. Matthew is a regular speaker at industry events such as Apple's first ever QuickTime Live! 1999
Conference and has been invited by Apple Computer to speak at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference next week. Matthew is a regular contributor of add-on
enhancement behaviors and tools for LiveStage Professional and his vast knowledge is sought but many in the QuickTime-Talk and LiveStage-Talk developer
communities. Matthew pushes the envelope of what is possible with QuickTime by leveraging and pushing LiveStage Professional to it's full potential.
"As a result of Totally Hip's products, the momentum is picking up rapidly for wired QuickTime movies. Before, few people I came across knew the technology existed.
Later, many people had heard of it and thought it was neat. Now, people are saying, "I NEED LiveStage Professional for my next project!"
Mike Matson, Creator of the acclaimed StarTower for Apple UK's QED http://www.apple.com/uk/education/schools/startower/
Mike Matson, from Five Ash Down, Sussex, England is a multiple award winning QuickTime designer, Education developer and industry recognized expert and frequent
speaker at industry and educational events in Europe and the United Kingdom. Mike Matson frequently speaks about the use of QuickTime and LiveStage Pro to create
educational interactive QuickTime content for the Web. Mike is the designer of the acclaimed StarTower, QED for Apple Computer UK. QED or QuickTime in Education
designed to show multimedia designers in Europe how QuickTime can be used to deliver interactive multimedia education activities into your browser window. Apple's
StarTower consists of a constantly developing library of educational activities designed for children at both school and home. The key characteristic of all the activities
on StarTower is user interactivity. Whereas 99.9% of the content of the World Wide Web consists of nothing more than reading matter and illustrations, the Star Tower
material is dynamic for children to learn and be engaged. . Mike is a regular contributor to the QuickTime-Talk and LiveStage-Talk developer communities.
"Today, a variety of digital media, or "multimedia -enabled technologies" such as QuickTime is helping educators effectively engage and teach students. On campuses
such as Brigham Young University, educators find that multimedia easily conveys complex ideas, encourages collaboration and interactivity while providing broader
access to resources that enrich learning, and enables the delivery of media-enhanced curriculum on campus and around the world."
"LiveStage Pro transforms QuickTime into an interactive multimedia system that has no equal. The beauty of using LiveStage Pro to develop exciting interactive material
is that you can be sure your projects will work just as well on a PC as they do on a Mac without your having to twiddle and tweak."
Ian Mantripp, Developer of Shakespeare add-on for LiveStage, and LiveSite
http://users.skynet.be/livesite
Ian Mantripp, from Ohain, Belgium and was educated at Sciences Economiques, CollËge Cardinal Mercier, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium Institut des Arts de Diffusion, and
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. Ian is a well-know developer of Shakespeare, the much sought after companion add-on tool for LiveStage Professional. He has also created
numerous add-on Qscript Behaviors and AppleScripts for LiveStage Professional. Ian is a recognized QuickTime wired media expert and a frequent speaker at industry
trade show events and spoke most recently at Internet in Business 1999 and Apple Technology Day 1999. Ian provides training and consulting services on Adobe GoLive
and LiveStage Pro for Images de Marque and TeleMak Training Center in Brussels and frequently is asked by Apple to provide demonstrations of QuickTime and
LiveStage at Apple related events. Ian is a frequent contributor to the LiveStage-Talk and QuickTime-Talk developer community and provides considerable exposure for
Totally Hip in Belgium and other European countries to spread the word about the many benefits of LiveStage Professional and QuickTime to developers.
"Totally Hip's LiveStage Pro is the only tool to provide easy authoring of QuickTime's latest features. Scriptable QTVR hotspots, hyper-linked text and powerful wired
sprites and the new "movie within a movie" within LiveStage Pro opens up a whole unexplored universe for multimedia developers to leverage QuickTime to deliver
compelling rich media content for the Web."
"Along with vision and innovation, the unique way in which Totally Hip interacts with their customers ensures they maintain a commanding lead in providing top quality
multimedia authoring tools for all levels of users. Totally Hip has become so important to QuickTime. What they have achieved in just over a year is amazing. They have
provided developers with the most powerful QuickTime authoring tools for Internet delivery. No network delivery technology comes close to QuickTime... and no
QuickTime authoring comes close to LiveStage Professional in providing sheer power and ease of use."
Brennan Young
Artist, Composer and Multimedia programmer Demark, Sweden
Brennan is an English multimedia designer and teacher living and working in Copenhagen (Aalandsgade) Denmark. Brennan made his first interactive media in the early
1980s when it was still just called 'computers'. He works extensively in education and is interested in the pedagogical aspects of multimedia. Brennan is a recognized
expert in Macromedia Director since 1996, and an expert on LiveStage Professional and has written a number of articles on Director, and QuickTime authoring tools,
including LiveStage and LiveStage Professional. Brennan is a frequent speaker at a number of industry events on Macromedia Director, LiveStage Pro and QuickTime,
and is a frequent contributor to the LiveStage-Talk and QuickTime-Talk developer community. Brennan has been instrumental in the advancement of the Wired Media
Experts Web site and he will be a frequent contributor on the new Web site and forums when it becomes available.
"The real strength of LiveStage is the way that it enhances and integrates existing open standard technologies with which multimedia authors are already familiar.
LiveStage enables me to use the exact same files and file formats that my peers are creating with tools like AfterEffects, Flash and Premiere, without the additional
overheads of running another multimedia engine concurrently to provide powerful interactivity. Now I can locate all my interactivity in the QuickTime movie itself."
"Outside of Apple's own range of tools, LiveStage is the single QuickTime authoring application which is most 'faithful' to the range and depth of the extensive QuickTime
format. It represents a completely unique window onto the QuickTime architecture that can not fail to surprise and intrigue authors and audiences alike for many years to
come."
Erik Fohlin
Managing Director, Barsark AB, Falun Sweden
http://www.barsark.com
Erik Fohlin is a co-founder and Managing Director of Basark AB, a leading award-winning European QuickTime content development company from Falun Sweden.
Barsark has many corporate clients including Microsoft, Dalarna County Council, Seat and many other well-known corporations. Erik has an economics degree from the
University of UmeÂ, Sweden and bought his first Macintosh computer back in 1990. He remembers the fascination he felt about his first Macintosh, and when QuickTime
wired media came out it blew his mind. In 1997 he co-founded Barsark and the business is focused on producing interactive multimedia QuickTime presentations with
QuickTime and LiveStage Professional. In late 1998 NUTEK (Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development) appointed Barsark as winners in a
competition for most technically innovative company and were awarded 28.000 US$. Eric is a frequent contributor to the LiveStage-Talk and QuickTime-Talk developer
community and has a particular expertise in QuickTime VR.
"We work with all kinds of different media, video, VR, sound/music text, images and Flash. Livestage Pro lets all these different media types interact with each other and
the user in a totally unique way that is built on a rock solid cross platform technology, QuickTime. If you want to see what the future of the Web will be like, well this is it."
David Gratton, Guillaume Iacino- iCi Media Inc., Vancouver BC Canada
http://www.icimediainc.com
The principles of iCi Media Inc. are recent graduates of the internationally recognized Vancouver Multimedia Film School in Vancouver Canada and have assisted Totally
Hip in a number of areas in the past 6 months.
David Gratton is a former international banker that worked in North America, Europe and Asia and in 1998, he found his calling when he saw the power of wired sprites
and QuickTime. He handed in his international banker resignation and began studying all things QuickTime. David is a recent graduate of Vancouver Film School's New
Media Department, and in the past 6 months David and his team created the first regularly scheduled Live Netcast (VFS Live) portal in Canada using QuickTime.
After graduating from the VFS, David co-founded ici Media Inc. with to bring interactive media (not TV) to the Internet. David and the other members of ici Media Inc.
are frequent contributors to the LiveStage-Talk and QuickTime-Talk developer community. David will be teaching LiveStage Professional courses in the coming months
after helping to put together a course on LiveStage Pro and QuickTime wired content development.
"When was the last time you sat 12 inches away from your TV? When was the last time you pulled your family around the computer with a bowl of popcorn to watch a
movie? The Net is not TV, and only LiveStage provides the tools to create content that breaks the rules of television."
Guillaume Iacino, iCi Media Inc. resident QuickTime specialist came from an audiovisual, special effects and video art scene background in France. He moved to
Vancouver, B.C to focus on multimedia applications such as Flash and Macromedia Director and is a recent graduate of Vancouver Film School's New Media
Department. He soon found in QuickTime and LiveStage the perfect tool for wired media, that enables the production of engaging experiences and interactivity. Ever
since, LiveStage has become his primary tool for producing interactive content.
"Quicktime can contain almost all types of media inside it and can be integrated into many other applications. By those facts QT can be (or is) everywhere.
LiveStageProfessionnal is the only tool which allow this wired experience with no limits."
Totally Hip Wired Media Experts Founding Members
The Totally Hip Wired Media Experts Group was recently formed to provide professional insight, education, mentoring and promotion of QuickTime and LiveStage
Professional authoring tool to educators, Web designers, universities, corporations and businesses around the globe. These Wired Media Experts have learned to
master the inherent challenges of interactive Web design, specifically through the use of QuickTime, Flash and LiveStage Professional and have earned a reputation as
experts in their field. Through combined and individual efforts these industry-leading Wired Media Experts make up a compelling team that will assistance and
international exposure to educate, train, and provide expert advice to encourage Web designers and developers to create sophisticated and professional Web sites using
QuickTime using Totally Hip's LiveStage Professional and LiveSlideShow.
Wired Media Experts Web Site Available Soon
The Wired Media Experts Web site will be available to all Web designers, QuickTime and LiveStage developers within the next month and will be introduced with a public
announcement. The Wired Media Experts Web site will augment the LiveStage-Talk and QuickTime -Talk lists as well as the Totally Hip's Web site, and will provide a
wealth of QuickTime and wired content media related news, tutorials and learning information for Web designers and corporate users. If you are seeking to learn more
about QuickTime and the industry leading LiveStage Professional QuickTime authoring tool or LiveSlideShow, check Totally Hip's Web site for further information over the
next month. For more information, please subscribe to the LiveStage-Talk list or QuickTime-Talk lists. To subscribe to Digest version:
Email requests@lists.totallyhip.com Subject 'subscribe digest livestage-talk'
For more information on LiveStage Professional and the new LiveSlideShow, visit http://www.totallyhip.com.
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Totally Hip Software's mission is to add interactivity to the Web. The Company was founded in 1995, is a leading developer and marketer of interactive
QuickTime Web development tools. These include the award-winning LiveStage,
LiveStage Professional, LiveSlideShow for Windows and Macintosh and WebPainter for Macintosh and Windows products that empower users to develop, produce and
deliver the most engaging experience on the Web. The Company is traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange (Trading Symbol: THW).
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