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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Jesus vs. Santa (flash)

Jesus meets his girlfriend's parents and Santa drops by (rated PG-13).

Social Media Must Be Done by You

Having an actual personal connection with your audience means you have to be the one that responds to comments, emails, tweets, phone calls

(from tubefilter.tv).

Monday, December 29, 2008

Google Improves Video Search with Goog411

...the reason for [Google] offering free 411 service was to get phoneme data for speech recognition algorithms... why they want better speech recognition algorithms right now: to improve video search

(from O'Reilly Radar).

Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source

The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news

(from Pew Research Center). This is further reason why website quality and availability are essential if one wants to stay in business. Newspapers are just one of the traditional forms of media whose audience is moving online.

Over the weekend, Twilight, the feature film still in theatres, was amongst the most watched videos on YouTube; it could be watched on an iPhone anywhere that had WiFi or access to AT&T's data networks.

Gump Royale

Mash-Up of the trailer for the latest Bond film 'Casino Royale' together with footage from 1994's Forrest Gump (rated PG).

Friday, December 26, 2008

Fans Mash-Up Your Content, Let Them

A fan has made a Thundercats Movie Trailer by repurposing existing footage and audio from movies that already exist. This is another example of the audience interacting with content in ways never intended by the original creators. As time goes on this will happen more and more often.

Mac vs PC Transformers (flash)

Two computers tranform and fight to find out which is superior once and for all (rated PG-13).