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YouTube turns 5!
May 17th, 2010
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:
It’s back…Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)
May 7th, 2010
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;
Phillies fan tasered, news at 11…from YouTube
May 5th, 2010
Earlier this week a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies jumped on the field while the game was in progress, was chased down and tasered by security and escorted from the stadium. This is actually not a unique experience in the world of professional sports, or for Philadelphia fans. All TV broadcasts of the game cut away from the fans antics as FCC law instructs them to so other rouge fans don’t have any wild ideas. Problem solved for network TV and the G-rated masses of viewers who would be corrupted by such hijinks (insert sarcasm icon here).
But wait, not so fast. In this case, the running fan was captured by numerous fans’ smartphone video cameras and the footage was quickly uploaded to YouTube for the world to see.
What happen next was quite interesting. Hundreds, if not thousands, of news organizations – including those same TV broadcasters – started showing the YouTube videos that captured the event. Anyone else see the obvious hypocrisy here?
Apple approves video recording app for iPhone 2G and 3G
December 15th, 2009
Apple announced today on their official blog that they will enable its 2G and 3G handsets to record video by admitting the new iVideoCamera (iTunes link) app to the iTunes store. This now means that users can now legitimately record, share and save videos without having to hack their handsets via ‘jailbreak‘. The app will be released for 99 cents in the US store and will have similar entry-level pricing in other iTunes stores around the world.
By adding this new application to an iPhone 2G or 3G handset, Apple has made their older users quite happy and has eliminated one of the big incentives to upgrade to the 3GS model. Interesting move by Apple.
MySpace – the new Hollywood launchpad – covers premier of Avatar
December 14th, 2009
The MySpace makeover continues with the launch of the highly anticipated James Cameron mega-movie Avatar with full “blue-carpet” coverage of the Hollywood premier this Wednesday evening (Dec 16 @ 6pm PT/9pm ET). In addition to the premier coverage, MySpace has been busy turning itself from a social network player into a media outlet. Now offering everything from fashion to music, and of course movies, the MySpace makeover seems to be in full effect.
Since taking the reigns of MySpace in April 2009, CEO Owen Van Natta has been transforming MySpace from a social networking site that was losing its market share to Facebook at an alarming rate, to a new media platform target the entertainment industry. Whatever you may think of the new mega movie from Cameron, the fact is MySpace has become the online launchpad of Hollywood’s blockbusters (see trailer courtesy of MySpace Movies below).
Avatar Trailer in HD
Trailer Park | MySpace Video
Fotopedia close another round of funding and shifts “images for humanity” to the web
December 1st, 2009
Fotopedia, a cross between Flickr and Wikipedia, just raised $1.1 million in additional funding from Ignition Partners, Banexi Ventures and founder Jean-Marie Huillot, as reported by TechCrunch earlier today. The company had raised $2.3 million in seed funding previously. Fotopedia, which is the brainchild of Hullot – former CTO of NeXT and Apple’s application division, turns your photo albums into collaborative Web pages with different topics and subjects.
The latest from Fotopedia is a very compelling social photo Wikipedia platform that gives users the ability to turn their photo albums into a web page entry on the Fotopedia site. You can add tags, associated Wikipedia entries and Google Map information to your own Fotopedia web album as well. This new platform moves Fotopedia completely onto the web by eliminating the need to install their former desktop client.
The new Aol. brand
November 23rd, 2009
Cool, edgy, unique, hip and stylish are all descriptions you really don’t associate with AOL. There was a point in time the stale internet player was considered a leader in the space. But those days are far behind us, or are they?
In preparation for their spin off from Time Warner on December 10 AOL is going through a rebranding which includes changing the AOL logo to a cooler, lowercase Aol., with a period. According to their press release, the new Aol. brand represents a commitment to stimulating content, openness and inclusion. Clearly the new Aol. is looking to appeal to a new, young, hip social media driven customer base with the new campaign.
How far is Aol. going to with this new image? To show you what they are all about, they have released a video with a sneak peak of their new brand advertising campaign (see below).
MySpace’s launch of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
November 20th, 2009
MySpace has been on a mission over the last few months to remake itself into a media company at the center of the “socialization of content” movement as stated by its new CEO Owen Van Natta. Its latest and most ambitious effort culminates today with the release of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”. The new blockbuster has taken over MySpace over the last month with multiple media elements. Officially in theaters today, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is one of the most anticipated films of the year. Last month, the first “New Moon” trailer premiered on MySpace and was viewed over 7.8 million times. Check it out below.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Trailer in HD
Trailer Park | MySpace Video
YouTube Direct empowers citizen journalism
November 17th, 2009
YouTube has just announced on its blog the launch of YouTube Direct, design to empower the ever growing citizen journalism movement. Self describe by YouTube as “a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users”, YouTube Direct is poised to link videographers and media outlets in a virtual video marketplace of user generated video content.
YouTube Direct will change how media outlets capture and report the news. The new platform allows news organizations to expand their coverage areas with citizen journalism at little to now cost. ABC News, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, NPR, and San Francisco Chronicle are among the organizations already using the platform and now you can too.
YouTube’s provided the following demo of how it works:
