One of the most unique features of Yutzu is the Y-Pad - a real time collaborative whiteboard where people can work together on papers and presentations or simply use the space for collective brainstorming.  The Y-Pad has recently been used as a classroom tool, and the result has been beautifully chaotic.  Eight users all worked simultaneously in the real-time application, and the colour-highlight feature made it possible to know who was contributing what information.

Several educational centres in Spain have tested Yutzu and thought so highly of it that they are adopting it to be put to use by teachers and students who wish to create multimedia material.  In order for this process to be more organized, the Yutzu team is working on developing themes to designate one page from another and galleries in which to collect similar Yutzus.

Updates on this process will follow shortly!

For now, check out the following Yutzus, and don’t forget to tell us what you think!

Art - Johannes Vermeer

Literature - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Travel - London, Ontario

Sincerely,

The Yutzu Team

Hello Yutzu followers!

It has been an exciting week in the life of Yutzu - the site officially went live on January 21st, and we are very excited about the feedback that we are getting from those of you that have tried it out!  We are currently working on improving the user experience, so please continue to sign up, have fun, and let us know what we can do to make Yutzu better.

We are already thinking about a number of new features for Yutzu, which we will let you know about in the near future.  If you have an idea for a feature that you think would make Yutzu better, please send an email to contact@yutzu.com.

If you want to get more of an idea about the different ways that Yutzu can be put to use, check out these great multimedia Yutzus:

Arauca, Colombia;

Leamington (Ontario, Canada)

NetLogo (Sample Video Course)

Thanks,

The Yutzu Team

It looks like not much happened since we submitted to Techcrunch Disrupt and opened Yutzu in private beta (email as at contact@yutzu.com for an account or do it at www.yutzu.com) on Sunday night, but the activity has not stopped ever since. What are we doing now?
First, we are trying to stay focused as the main tendency we feel now is to keep adding new features to Yutzu. But the fact is that almost nobody (except us internally) has tested it yet. We have a long list of ideas, but the two first commands at Yutzu are: it has to be useful and it has to be easy (bear with us). Before we add any new thing, we'd like to hear from you.
This brings me to the second issue: keeping up with people's interest and the social life of Yutzu. We are sending the first invites, writing blog posts, and setting up accounts and pages in Facebook, Twitter, Posterous, .... Just trying to keep our communication channels open and raise some interest from you. So, please like our posts and even more important, use Yutzu. You have many ways of telling us what you think, from the Feedback red button on the left-hand side of Yutzu pages to all these social media channels.
Third, as usually we are also scanning the environment to learn from other companies and products and try to improve your experience at Yutzu.
Keep talking to us!
Juan-Luis

There are many sites in the web that allows users to create media content either through images, videos or text. However, there are very few sites that allow non-technical users to create mashups from the huge collection of materials available online and present them in a creative way.

Yutzu facilitates the collection of multimedia and real time artifacts to create libraries of rich content around user-created topics, for both professionals and regular users. Yutzu makes collaboration between people who work in creative industries (filmmakers, fashion designers, curators, magazine editors, photographers, marketing professionals, ...) very easy. Communicating that content with colleagues, audiences and friends is the third element of the Yutzu experience, and Yutzu offers several easy ways to publish and share the topics created by you.

Yutzu solves the problem of making collection, collaboration and publication with multimedia mashups an easy process. By doing so, Yutzu changes the digital multimedia experience of Internet users and creative professionals.