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
Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
And now for something completely different…Planz.com
May 25th, 2010We 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, 2010Watch live streaming video from disrupt at livestream.com
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:
Foursquare unveils an App Gallery
May 13th, 2010
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
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.
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?
Which social network is best for you?
April 27th, 2010Searching for the best social network that satisfies your current needs? Courtesy of Wired.com, here is a simple flowchart to help you figure out where you should spend your time.
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Facebook Streamlines User Data Permissions
April 22nd, 2010As part of a series of announcements Facebook made at its annual f8 conference regarding its new Open Graph API, they will also be changing how user data access permissions work for third-party applications and web sites. This may sound a bit boring on the surface, but could have substantial positive benefits for all of us who run websites that leverage Facebook Connect (soon to become Open Graph) to enhance our users experiences.
Facebook will be getting rid of the multiple dialog boxes that developers have had to implement in the past which can be pretty intrusive to user interfaces. Now there will be just one box, and developers will need to ask for the specific types of data they want to access, rather than asking for users to share all of their profile data.
In the sample screenshot below, you can see the “Cool Social App” asking for access to public information, email and photos.
