On June 12, Flickr introduced localisation – that is local language and country versions – of their site in 7 different flavours. These were French, Germany, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. In what appears to be a consequence to this extension, they also ran up against local laws (or interpretation of laws) that […]
Video connections
I spent a fair bit of last night (when I wasn’t travelling back to work because I’d left my keys there) watching live video streams. The first was from Chris Pirillo; tuning into Chris I found him talking to Kosso, whom I mentioned in an earlier post. Sharing the broadcast with Chris was Eric Rice […]
The spread of the machine is us/ing us
If you read tech blogs regularly, you’ll have seen this video: A sublime introduction to how the web is changing. Sue Thomas, a wonderful woman I bumped into a Blogher, has a post about her experience at the Web2.0 conference, where she met up with Mike Wesch who explained how it spread: Wesch explained that […]
Kosso on Ustream
We’ve had justin.tv and now the Podtech guys Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang are walking around Web2.0 with their live streaming on Ustream, which is a great way to see the some of the conference without having to do the travel. And Ustream is open for all to stream their life to the web. Kosso, […]
Blogger Samples
Tonight at the Problogger meetup, I met up with Keith, from vibrator.com (do you need a warning that that link is NSFW?) As an e-commerce site, it is very web2.0; there’s a pretty good blog, all the right prompts to delicious, digg, technorati etc and the UGC competition – submit your own erotic story. Furthermore […]
YouTube Video Awards
The voting is over and the winners have been announced. Over the last few weeks, you could vote on YouTube for their best videos of 2006. I’d only seen 3 of them before, so a good intro into some new content. Meanwhile, over on Revver, VH1 are running a nice little campaign that results in […]
Pushing a Community around Jericho
Over the last few days I’ve been working my way through all the back episodes of Jericho from CBS. As I usually do, I turn to Wikipedia to see if there any additional pieces of information to add to my enjoyment of the show (I’m a trivai freak at times). The show has a loyal […]
Attracting attention
You’ll have most likely seen the SNL Dick in a Box Sketch. And GETV’s response about Boobs in a Box. Now there’s the one sure way to get a man’s attention in the Valley.
Fighthunger Video competition
I wrote earlier about the UN Fighthunger video competition. Well, they have no released the winner, Kristen Palana. The other winners can be seen be seen here. Let their persuasive powers wash over you and go and donate!
Pachelbel Canon in D Rant
from Mashuptown, comes a rant on Pachelbel and how he has ‘ruined’ all sorts of songs since.
Time Person of the Year
Is me. And you. And everyone who uses this wonderful piece of technology called the internet to share their opinions, life, creativity and just everyday stuff with the rest of the world. Even if you are just famous for 15 people and they are just family and friends you would see everyday, the medium and […]
Web Video Hosting
How many video sites are there now? Plenty, and they are still popping up every week. YouTube is the biggest but Google are still pushing theirs despite buying YT, Microsoft recently launched theirs and Revver is going strong with the shared revenue model. Chris Pirillo takes a look at three key players in this string […]
BBC UGC – Yes or No?
User Generated Content, Citizen media, particpatory content. Whatever you call it, it’s not going away and the number of advertisers jumping on the bandwagon with various degrees of success increases everyday. The BBC has been there for a while and now we have two stories demonstrating various successes. In the first, BBC News 24 has […]
Starbucks – It’s Red Again
Starbucks’ itsredagain is their Holiday website. It’s definitely multilingual, having you pass through 2 pages to choose your language and even gives a subtitle choice for those lacking speakers ;-).  There’s nothing groundbreaking here, with a choice of send your own greeting card or submit your Christmas tradition to be added to the interactive map. […]
YouTube: Time Invention of the Year
Yes, the writers at Time do know the actual site went live last year. But they are celebrating the sheer power of the people who have made the site their own. “But even though they built it, they didn’t really understand it. They thought they’d built a useful tool for people to share their travel […]
Chevy Life – more living in cars
There’s obviously something in the air, maybe the high property prices, but, following Nissan, another car manufacturer has decided that their vehicles are perfect to live in. This time it is Chevy, who are running the ‘Aveo Livin’ Large Campus Challenge‘. I’m late on this as it finished last week, The “AVEO Livin’ Large Challenge” […]