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Defining Social Media | Brian Solis

Interesting read... URL:  www.briansolis.com

Social T.V.? Pass the Ritalin…

Seriously, this just sounds like a terrible idea. I understand that people thirst for making connections with each other but with Twitter, texting, etc. how will our children learn to communicate without an intermediary like a laptop or a smart phone? Ranting here a bit but my point is this: can’t we simply watch a drama, comedy, documentary, movie, game, etc. online without all the distractions? People complain about pre-roll or in-video ads online all the time…but its okay to be peppered with commentary every minute or two? Sounds like someone dusted off the old “Pop up video” concept and shoe horned it into a sociaI video application to me. I don’t get it.

Amplify’d from mashable.com
Watching TV with friends is a time-old tradition. But what if you don’t have any friends around and still want to have that TV-on-the-couch experience?
Social TV has been quietly tested over the past two weeks; the central differentiating feature being something called “Chatter”.
The cool thing is that this is not done in real-time, but instead any time you chatter, it is synced to the video. So if you watch The Simpsons and put in a comment 6 minutes into the show, future users will see that comment, even if they watch the episode the next day. It’s like a running commentary left by social network users.
sometimes you just want to kick back, relax, and passively consume a TV show. But it’s also clear that the web is enabling new forms of interaction around TV, and that can only be a good thing.Read more at mashable.com
 

What the FUNK?!

This is one seriously kick ass, funky tune. Amazing to me that someone had the creativity and determination to edit this together from so many youtube videos. Definitely goes into the “wish I thought of that” file…

Amplify’d from www.techcrunch.com
If you haven’t heard of Kutiman yet you’re about a week late on the latest music sensation to be incubated on the Web.
The project consists of seven music tracks/videos that are made exclusively from video material found on YouTube.
The resulting seven tracks which range in genres—from R&B, Funk and Reggae, to Jungle, Afro and Jazz—are quite impressive.
See more at www.techcrunch.com