June 2008
49 posts
June 30, 2008 Change In The Fame Landscape
(Image via NextNYers)
Where will cable TV be in 5 years? What’s going to happen to independent video bloggers making a living being internet famous when they start to put old media out of business?
USA Today wrote an article about the online video industry that features video bloggers. Josh Cohen from Tilzy.TV, co-founder and young entrepreneur in New York, says “Online video started...
The Bill Gates Timeline →
June 25, 2008 Intel Insider
Intel, the microprocessor company that started as a memory company, has brought together a select number of bloggers and video bloggers from web 2.0 communities to be Intel Insiders. So, what’s an Intel insider? It’s someone working closely with Intel to get the scoops on products and new developments there as well as contributing brand association with Intel.
From left: Frank Gruber, Chris...
June 22, 2008
Matt is back! He’s an internet celebrity for his “Where the Hell is Matt?’ video. Before his rule over internet video he was just your typical British musician who liked to develop video games. He is 32 years old and an internet phenomenon.
His ” video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became “viral”, with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day...
WatchMatthew Harding has released his second big dance video. It was featured on the homepage of YouTube initially and then shot up on Digg. It’s currently the most popular video on Digg and gaining momentum on YouTube. Matt’s trip and video was made possible by Stride Gum.
“Ice-T is talking about how Souljaboy independently killed hip-hop…...”
– Phillip DeFranco
WatchThe Pop17 live show every Thursday at 3pm ET.
June 19th, 2008
Rex Sorgatz explains how to become an internet celebrity with ease. He outlines simple steps to achieve internet fame in a featured article that ran in New York Magazine.
“It’s easy to be cynical about this new class of celebrity. The lines between empowerment and self-promotion, between sharing and oversharing, between community and cliques, can be blurry. You can judge for yourself...
June 17, 2008 Twitter Music At Wiiizzz
Wiiizzz tracks and streams what has been listened to and shared today on twitter. It’s a great way to track music tastes from the twitter community. Wiiizzz aggregates songs people are talking about on twitter and displays 10 of them on the site in a compleatly random order.
It would be cool to sort through the tracks based on popularity. This way people would discover new music from...
June 14, 2008 Visual Techno Flirts
Youniverse is an online dating site that matches visual thinkers. Are you a visual thinker? If someone is telling you a story do you see it as a full-color movie? Thinking in pictures is something designers have in common. Some of the most creative minds foster life long careers from their visualization abilities. But has anyone ever been able to get a date from it? Imagini came out with a beta...
June 12, 2008
Coming soon to an iphone near you.
June 10, 2008
Steve Jobs is our hero. I heard from friends attending his keynote at WWDC that it was amazing. Jobs knows how to captivate an audience. He’s a maverick and his personality touches people.
(Image via realworldcs)
The 3G iphone is beautiful. I have always liked the iphone from it’s launch. It’s the best phone I have ever had. For a price point starting at $199 you...
“The new iPhone will contain a golden ticket in 5 boxes world wide, which will...”
– The Enormous Waste of Webspace » New iPhone Arrives Today - 5 contain Golden Tickets (via fred-wilson, poortaste, hilker)
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June 7, 2008 Team Geek A Nerd At Wiimbledon
I took this picture of blog team Geek a Nerd. It’s a a blog about geek culture. They won second place at Wiimbledon last year. This year everyone came back for a second shot at taking home a new Wii as the winner.
Last year the winners also got a lot of press including:
ABC News
MTV News
The New York Times
The Daily News
Deadspin
Time Out New York
Associated Press
Gothamist
...
WatchThe live show at Mogulus week went amazingly well this week. The interview features Jody Gnant, a lifecaster and independent musician.
June 6, 2008 Comment On Twitter Via Chirrup
Go ahead and tweet on Twitter. The average person on twitter tweets twice a day according to Blaine Cook, former Chief Architect of twitter when I spoke to him at BarCamp in Austin, Texas.
How many times are you tweeting on twitter? How many comments do you post daily? What websites are you commenting on? Do you hang out on wikis? If you have an answer to any combination of these questions then...
June 5th, 2008
Revision3 and Digg fans came out in the thousands last night to see a live show of Diggnation filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at a club called StudioB. The venue is your typical warehouse setting. That’s good when trying to host a large party. Apparently, it wasn’t big enough. Hundreds of people were waiting outside, in the rain, to get in 30 min before the show started.
Some...
Are You On Plurk? June 4, 2008
Plurk!
David Adewuni of VentureBeat describes it as “Twitter meets FriendFeed.” ParisLemon’s MG Siegler writes, “some people won’t like the non-standard timeline look, preferring the stream-like Twitter approach, but I like this change of pace. I also like how it handles embedded pictures and videos.”
I really like Plurk’s horizontal design. Following...
WatchI was a speaker at Streaming Media East on a panel about lifecasting. Steve Garfield joined me and was streaming on Qik as I was streaming on Flixwagon, how meta! Scott Monty from Crayon and Sarig Reichert from Flixwagon were also on the panel. Jose Castillo stepped in for Chris Brogan as moderator. It was fun speaking about the different platforms and people who are lifecasting today. Watch the...
June 2, 2008
Sociagami folds your friends into one place! This application has a clean design that’s easy to use. It takes your Myspace, Facebook and Twitter friends to one central location where you can search, organize, browse, comment and view updates. You can check out your friends photos the moment they upload, always keeping fresh and new content front and center. They recently added status...
