YouTube turns five years old this year. The domain name YouTube.com was registered on Feb. 14, 2005, and the website launched in beta form that May. Here's one of the videos the company has made to celebrate the milestone and its influence on early users—in this case, Federic Alvarez, a 30-year-old filmmaker from Uruguay behind the YouTube smash sci-fi short, Panic Attack: … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: Chris Brogan Interview
May 1, 2010 by
My May 2010 video clip of the month is an interview Chris Brogan gave for the LikeMinds conference in the United Kingdom. Brogan, arguably one of the top social media experts in the world, discusses his vision for social media's future. Here's the YouTube video: … [Read more...]
A Peek at the Google Wave Extensions Gallery
March 13, 2010 by
Remember Google Wave? Last November I was pretty excited to get an invite to join Google's experimental real-time communication platform (which is still in preview and not released to the public). After I got the invite, I immediately logged on and played around a little bit—but largely by myself. With Google Wave, collaborators share e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking merged into topical waves. Since I didn't have any collaborators, or at … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: University ‘The Office’ Spoof
March 1, 2010 by
My March 2010 video clip of the month is a spoof of the NBC sitcom "The Office" that students at the University of Denver produced to show their frustrations with technology in the classroom. The video features “Michael,” a technology professor who hasn't kept up with the latest technology and is trying to wing his technology lectures. At one point, he hands out floppy disks so outdated his students’ laptops don’t even have drives to read them. Later, he tries to … [Read more...]
Twitter Code Swarm: A Mesmerizing Video
February 8, 2010 by
One of the things I love about Web 2.0 is all the creativity and collaboration it creates in the high tech community. Today, I want to share with you a Vimeo video from Ben Sandofsky, a team member of the new Twitter Engineering blog, which visualises Twitter's commits history in a beautiful and mesmerizing way. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to a software's code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. The video … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: Social Media ROI
February 1, 2010 by
My February 2010 video clip of the month is a video by Erik Qualman, author of the Socialnomics - Social Media Blog, on social media return on investment (ROI). The video showcases several social media ROI examples along with other highly successful social media strategies. Here's the YouTube video: … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: Serendipity Engine
January 1, 2010 by
My January 2010 video clip of the month features a valuable talk Chris Brogan gave at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. Brogan is arguably one of the top social media experts in the world and his blog is rated number 0ne by Advertising Age magazine. Here's the YouTube video: … [Read more...]
Video Clip of the Month: Muppets on Social Media
December 1, 2009 by
The Muppets Studio produced a cute clip about social media. Here's a link to the video on YouTube: … [Read more...]
Blog with Integrity FTC Webinar
November 21, 2009 by
Blog With Integrity hosted a free webinar on Nov. 10, 2009, featuring Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Associate Commissioner for Consumer Protection Mary Engle. The webinar discussed the new FTC guidance on disclosure and endorsements, which is critical information for bloggers who write about products and services plus the public relations and marketing people who hock them. You can view the Vimeo video below. I have signed Blog with Integrity's online pledge. I … [Read more...]
Google Wave Developer Preview
October 15, 2009 by
I hope I can get a Google Wave invite. Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. About a million people were extended invitations starting Sept. 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite from 20 to 30 … [Read more...]
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