Love it, hate it or have no idea what the hell it is, Twitter seems to definitely (kinda) finally making some ripples outside the early-adopter society. That means that everyone must now ask whether or not Twitter will become the next ubiquitous web “thing” like Google, Facebook or email (ed. note: not actually convinced Facebook [...]
ReelPop has an “investigative” look into the video that finally ousted The Evolution of Dance from the YouTube #1 Most Viewed slot. Not only is the methodology cool but as ReelPop points out:
“Assuming Andy’s research is proven accurate, inflated view counts have the potential to affect a lot of parties, from trend watchers and talent [...]
I just read a great little post on A VC Blog that points to his post written THREE YEARS AGO called In Defense of Free.
In it, Fred Wilson looks at Red Hat (linux), FlickR and Google as examples of how free is succeeding. This was three years ago.
Obviously, these ideas are becoming more mainstream every [...]
We all remember the video of the Rodney King beating. Of course, that was long before YouTube, so we watched it on the evening news.
Now, as this article in the LA Times explores, there is a growing number of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, hitting the streets with cheap video cameras and shooting [...]
TechCrunch has a look at the attempts of Yahoo to block folks who are searching for the infamous bittorent site, PirateBay.
When I tried to search for it myself I received NO direct links to the site on Yahoo.
However, when I did the same search on Google, the Pirate Bay was the top hit.
Not sure what [...]
Tilzy has at the Google-hosted Videocracy event thrown by Google:
“At thee-story club/concert space Terminal 5, Google hosted Vidoecracy, a “deep-dive, Cliffs Notes, YouTube 101 education” for potential advertisers, mostly pitching them on the idea that the video-sharing site is about more than just videos. It’s a social experience that’s capable of producing stars and events [...]
Great piece in Micro Persuasion on the idea of the need for, a growth of, the Digital Curator.
“Information overload makes it difficult to separate junk from art. It requires a certain finesse and expertise - a fine tuned, perhaps trained eye. Google, memetrackers such as Techmeme and social news sites like digg are not curators. [...]
I recently, um, acquired an audiobook reading of Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH and have been listening to it during my commute. I first read this book, well-known to be the philosophic foundation of SecondLife, in the mid-80’s, when the whole thing was pure fantasy.
Each chapter holds some amazing foresight by Neal. Today, he introduced an [...]
