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The Web is Evolving and Panacloud is the Next Logical Step in this Evolutionary Process

  • Web is all about content.
  • Google is about searching of content.
  • Facebook is about sharing of content.
  • Panacloud is about creating, organizing, publishing, marketing, and tracking of content.
panacloud_foundations Panacloud, the content factory, provides content creation tools that are built on top of a common foundation. It is built from the grounds-up optimized for search engines (SEO) as well as social media marketing. The Panacloud tool foundation consists essentially of topics and channels. The topics define the relationship between different content items and provide a link between common threads of interest whereas the channels are used to publish content items and utilized to aggregate and provide context to related items. All of the content factory tools use this common foundation to interconnect and group content using three distinct content types:
  1. Panavideo to prepare, record, and broadcast video slideshows.
  2. Panaquiz to evaluate the viewer comprehension and understanding.
  3. Panasite to provide a seamless integration between websites and documents for on-screen viewing and printing.
Panacloud provides tools and runtimes for creating and viewing each of the above content types. The resulting interconnected material is intrinsically designed to convert the internet into an ever-present content laden cloud.

Panacloud has many facets and can be viewed from many different angles. The easiest way to understand it is by thinking of it in terms of current web models and concepts.

Panacloud extends the “social graph” by incorporating content organizing and tracking information. Facebook creates a social graph which is the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. Panacloud extends this with the concept of content created by everybody and how they are interconnected. You can think of it as an add-on to the social networks.

Panacloud provides web based tools to create and publish content. The authors do not have to use separate and disjoined programs and services to produce and distribute content. It serves as a single source of web based tools to create diverse types of interrelated content. It provides tools to create hyper-video presentations, web sites and documents, feedback and evaluation methods. It turns the web from just a content viewing and presentation medium to a content creation platform.

Panacloud takes web hosting and streaming to the next level. It is a content hosting and hyper video streaming service with an ability to produce synchronized multimedia slide shows. It is created by the cooperation of three components: One or more videos. Markers embedded into these video that are invisible to the user but that are perceived by the runtime environment. Presentation slides that are synchronized with these videos with the help of hidden markers.

Panacloud provides a marketplace for listing, marketing and selling of content; Just like application marketplaces recently introduced by most major platform players. The Panacloud content directory will also serve as a Content Marketplace, an online store for acquiring content created and designed to work with Panacloud's core suite.

Panacloud is a Communication Medium with Wide and Diverse Applications

Panacloud may be used in a variety of scenarios to improve effectiveness and efficiency of communication.

It may be used by the top-management of a company to communicate its vision and strategies to employees, both locally and globally. Panavideo may be used to communicate with the help of synchronized video and presentation slides whereas Panaquiz might be used to evaluate if the message has been understood by the workforce.

It may be used by the marketing department of a company to give a sales pitch to prospective customers. One such use might be to embed a webinar in the form of Panavideo in the website of the company.

It may be used by a financial analyst to present a report on a company’s future prospects and make recommendations to potential investors.

It may be used by a speaker to give presentation in a conference or seminar and simultaneously record it for publication over the internet. The slides would be prepared with Panavideo before the start of the event, and the presentation itself would be recorded with Panavideo in real-time as the event progresses in front of an audience. The resulting presentation comprising of synchronized slides and recording would then be ready for instant publication on a Panacloud’s user defined channel.

It may be used by a professional researcher to find and filter material related to a particular topic or author, incorporate the material in the research work and also suggest it to his or her colleagues if need be.

It may be used by an educationist to present a lecture or teach an entire course on a Panacloud channel and then automatically test and grade the students. Similarly, professional exam preparation course providers might use the platform to deliver an e-learning course to a worldwide audience. In either case, the Panacloud will provide calculated feedback to all participants at each stage of the learning process by identifying topics needing further reinforcement and providing references to additional learning material.

It may be used by a hobbyist to merge videos and background audio files from different sources using the platform's web based tools and combine them with slides and animations to produce a compelling narrative. It may be just for fun for friends or on a topic of interest and passion.

It may be used by a casual web surfer to find material related to a particular topic or author and suggest it to his or her friends. Again, it may be just for fun or to provide information on a topic of mutual interest and passion.

To sum up, Panacloud can be used by everybody and anybody on the internet to convey and express their ideas, thoughts, and views easily and effectively.

Panacloud Founder has Lead a Movement to Teach Technology for the Last 12 years, and is now Focusing on Improving Communication Effectiveness and Efficiency through Technology

Mr. Zia Khan has founded and directed a not-for-profit movement to spread latest state of the art technology and business education to the underserved youth. The movement has so far trained more than 10,000 students in various subjects and technologies. Mr. Zia Khan has conducted numerous train-the-trainer courses in various cities and Universities. For four consecutive years, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 he has received the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. He has a Master of Science in Engineering (MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Accountancy (MAC), all three from Arizona State University (ASU). He has a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Economics from KU. He is also a CPA and CMA in USA.

In 2005 Mr. Zia Khan started focusing on improving the effectiveness of communication using the latest internet technologies. The Panacloud was founded in 2008 after an extensive research and prototyping in design and development.

Panacloud uses Rich Internet and Mobile Application, Cloud Computing, Social Networking, and Internet Payment Technologies

Four capabilities are critical for making Panacloud realistic and practical. Ability to develop desktop like design tools which are web based and support multimedia content creation and authoring on different types of clients (Rich Client Technology for PCs and Smart Phones). Capacity to support a web scale service which will provide infinite scalability at low costs (Cloud Servers). Facility to build on top off the user’s existing social graph, and the means of extending it (Socially Aware Applications). Capability to seamlessly share revenue and make payments to content authors, who may be located anywhere in the world (Open Global Payment APIs).

Until recently all this would not have been possible or would have required tremendous amount of investment to build the above capabilities from scratch. Now they are available out of the box. Microsoft’s Silverlight RIA technology provides us the capability to develop desktop like cross platform multimedia applications with excellent performance characteristics. They are supported or will be supported on diverse set of PC and Smart Phone platforms. These applications are easy to develop and maintain.

Microsoft has recently started Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud offering in the form of Windows Azure. It provides infinite scalability without sacrificing flexibility. It supports a subscription based pay as you go model. It also integrates very well with our chosen RIA technology; both Silverlight and Windows Azure are .NET based and require a single developer skill set, thus reducing costs and providing seamless client and server integration.

Facebook Connect lets users bring their identity and connections to external website. It provides access to user's identity, social graph, and streams. The Facebook Open Graph API allows any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page. Allowing users to become a Fan of the external page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans. It makes it very easy for users to share content from Panacloud on Facebook and to have that content associated with their Facebook identity. Facebook Connect and Open Graph technologies provide seamless integration points with Facebook and the user’s social graph.

Paypal X allows third parties to easily add payment mechanisms to their own services. Paypal Adaptive Payments makes possible peer-to-peer payments on any website. You can now also split payments among many recipients. For example, it provides capability to automatically split payments made by the content buyer to content authors and Panacloud, in a single transaction.

Panacloud users Silverlight to build the client side user interfaces. Windows Azure for hosting server logic and data. Facebook Connect for user authentication and Open Graph API provides context to each Panacloud content item. Paypal X provides the mechanism to make payments to the content authors either directly for advertisement based content or peer-to-peer in case of paid content. The seamless integration of best of the breed technology provides the content authors and consumers a rich, infinitely scalable, social, and rewarding experience.