Links for 2007-10-15
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Lifecasting: lots to see, but can they sell it? “technologists at Justin.tv have figured out ways to make video streaming on the Internet inexpensive but haven’t gotten much further than that in puzzling out a business…”
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“It’s no secret that Facebook, which started as a networking playground for college kids, is graying, and that the percentage of active members who are over 25 years old and out of school has risen to some 40 percent” (of 45 million users).
links for 2007-10-14
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Christian Erickson explores the moral ambiguity in the latest season of the 4400.
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TechCrunch reviews YouTube and their many, many online video sharing competitors. Conclusion: Blip.TV is the future. [Via]
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Young Bill “Husker” Adama preprares to launch on his first mission during the first Cylon War. This is minisode #2, counting down to Razor in November. (This is available on the main SciFi page in the US, but the rest of the world needs YouTube!)
Dove’s Onslaught
Last year as part of Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ campaign they produced the important and memorable Evolution video which graphically illustrated the many, many steps between a photograph being taken and the image based on that photograph ending up on a billboard or fashion magazine cover. This year Dove have, in my opinion, produced another fine clip which looks at the tirade of body images and messages young girls and women encounter through various media in their everyday life. It’s called Onslaught:
Incidentally, while I know these viral videos are something of a marketer’s dream, I don’t think that distracts from the message one little bit.
links for 2007-10-10
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“Social networking website MySpace says comparing user profiles with a[n Australia] national database of sex predators would be a useful development to improve internet safety.”
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The UK govt is looking into links between videogames & violence. NB: Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers’ Association (ELSA) : “only 2% of games released in the UK receive an 18 certificate and the average age of a gamer is 28.”
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Google “is expected to introduce a service on Tuesday to allow Web sites in its ad network to embed relevant videos from some YouTube content creators.” And YouTube video creators are to get a small percentage of the pie! (How EPIC.)
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“Today’s students will be tomorrow’s university recruiting agents on the social web, Swinburne University of Technology vice-chancellor Ian Young has predicted. “Prospective students are getting more and more information on universities from … Facebook”
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Is Twitter in for some serious competition as Google buys Jaiku, a more orbust Twitter-clone (well, Twitter ancestor, actually I think…)?
Liberal Party Website Hacked!
[Screenshot & heavy-handed black-out courtesy of News.com.au.]
While not the most insightful of political messages, the hacking of the Australian Liberal Party website has Australian Prime Minister John Howard showing a different side! I bet the reporter who wrote this piece was hurting themselves laughing, especially with the last line:
The Liberal Party website has been hacked to make Prime Minister John Howard appear to enjoy engaging in a lewd homosexual act. Under the heading, The Liberal Party of Australia, the website reads: John Howard Says “I like to s… d…!” The Liberal Party’s federal secretariat has been contacted for comment.
I wonder what the federal secretariat had to say?
Update: The story’s last line now reads: ‘”It appears to be a hoax, but we’re checking it out,” the spokesman said.” (Someone is having real fun writing this story! 🙂
links for 2007-10-09
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“The anti-piracy arm of the Australian music industry has threatened to start suing individuals for illegal downloading if internet providers do not exert more control over their users.”
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Henry Jenkins interviews Jean Burgess about her work on the idea of Vernacular Creativity and the creativity found in the digital practices of everyday life.
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“US Ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants are using an unusual recruiting tool: the violent video game Halo.”
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A survey of educators using Second Life – not surprisingly, a fairly positive response from the EdTech crowd, although, reading between the lines, there is something of an admission about the amount of time needed to get started!
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The Internet is graying, as social software targeted to baby boomers hits the web and marketers look toward the most stable and richest of demographics.
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