The full trailer for The Social Network, the highly anticipated film written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher that retells the origins of Facebook, has just landed – see below.
Coming October 2010
How do you feel about the iPhone 4?
June 25th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »For all those minions of Steve Jobs who camped out over night to get their grubby little hands on the iPhone 4, I give the behind the scene’s commentary from the product development team. Enjoy!
Thank you Funny or Die!
And now for something completely different…Planz.com
May 25th, 2010 by Chris No comments »We just “quietly” launched Planz.com today, a bold attempt to deliver the only end to end social planning site. Yes that’s right – something completely different…
Check out Planz.com today and you can book your trip to Jolly Ole’ England and possibly hunt to the old Monty Python crew.
You can also sign up for the VIP mailing list to stay in the loop as we launch some pretty amazing new features.
Watch TechCrunch Disrupt Live
May 24th, 2010 by Chris No comments »Watch live streaming video from disrupt at livestream.com
YouTube turns 5!
May 17th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »
YouTube turns 5 and has released a special anniversary video highlighting their rise from startup to social phenomenon. How pervasive is YouTube throughout our culture? YouTube now exceeds over two billion views a day. That’s nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined. Check out the 5 year anniversary video montage below:
YouTube has also announced that to celebrate their birthday, they are launching the YouTube Five Year channel. There, you’ll find the “My YouTube Story” project which features people from all over describing how YouTube has changed or shaped their lives. Check out some of initial clips here:
Foursquare unveils an App Gallery
May 13th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »
Foursquare is making another move to become one of the preeminent social media platforms in the market by its recent launch of their very own App Gallery. Similar to Twitter and Facebook, Foursquare has been gaining significant momentum on its way to becoming one of the few leading platforms on the web. There are over 500 Foursquare apps out there, based on the number of registered tokens.
Currently, Foursquare is only highlighting 10 apps to show a proof of concept for how the gallery will work. They’re asking all developers to submit their app through this page so they can showcase all the various apps built on top of Foursquare.
Apps themselves have their own pages in the App Gallery. For example, here’s the page for Mob Zombies
, an iPhone game that is built on top of Foursquare. Apps get descriptions and screenshots, similar to Apple’s iTunes store. The pages also feature Facebook’s new Like button to easily share. And, of course, there’s a big button to “Try this application.”
Diaspora, the anti-Facebook
May 13th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »
Straight out of NYU, four engineering students have decided to take on Facebook with an open source personal web service that put’s individuals in control of their data, called Diaspora. Chronicled in both The New York Times and Mashable, these four ambitious young entrepreneurs have set their sites on what is becoming the new Microsoft on the Internet – Facebook.
The Diaspora team — Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Ilya Zhitomirskiy and Raphael Sofaer — strongly believe that sharing information via social network and maintaining a reasonable level of privacy should not have to be mutually exclusive. Their project Diaspora is to build a social network that allows everyone to install their own “seeds”, which is a personal space with the user’s photos, videos and anything else they like, within the larger social network. Their “seed” would be fully controlled by the user and they can choose who they share their data with, if at all.
New video on Web 3.0 – “Semantic Web”
May 10th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »A new documentary written by Kate Ray, a Journalism/Psychology major at NYU entitled Web 3.0 has just been released to the wild. The video produced by Ray focuses in on the vast, dynamically growing levels of data on the web – pages, pages everywhere. The almost 15-minute film (embedded below) does give a pretty good overview of the “semantic web” concept. Effectively turning all data on the web into structured data to define relationships and meaning. Interesting conceptual overview.
Check it out below.
It’s back…Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
May 7th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »
When I started this blog back on September 25, 2009 my first post was a simple “welcome” message with a YouTube video clip produced by Erik Qualman author of the blog called Socialnomics. Interestingly enough, YouTube subsequently removed that video for copyright issues. The video was titled Social Media Revolution, and it was a series of very interesting facts and stats that demonstrated the massive change social media is making on our lives. A good introduction to the reason I started this blog.
Well Mr. Qualman is back at it again with his latest creation, Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh). In this latest creation Qualman has included some pretty interesting and powerful social media stats, such as;
YouTube’s Top 10 most viewed videos of all time
May 7th, 2010 by Chris 1 comment »
It’s Friday and we thought we’d give you all a little taste of the sometimes fascinating videos on YouTube – for your viewing pleasure. These are the top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube of all time (as of May 7, 2010). Enjoy.
1. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (Total Views: 198,742,929)
2. Charlie bit my finger – again ! (Total Views: 186,898,133)
3. Evolution of Dance – By Judson Laipply (Total Views: 142,910,485)
4. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris (Total Views: 122,722,268)
5. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (Total Views: 119,031,633)
6. Hahaha (Total Views: 118,334,011)
7. Miley Cyrus – 7 Things – Official Music Video (Total Views: 117,768,950)
8. MIley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A. – Official Music Video (Total Views: 115,932,107 sorry, YouTube turned off the ability to embed this video)
