In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent. To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks.
When Boxee was forced to pull Hulu support a few weeks ago, users were outraged. And rightfully so. It’s not like Boxee, a software media center startup, was blocking the advertisements Hulu was showing, it was really just another way to view the content, almost like another browser. But the powers that be behind Hulu — that is, the big media companies that product the content — forced Hulu to shutdown the pipeline of content to Boxee. Today, that content is coming back … kind of. » Continue Reading…
Great article published by Gamedaily on a not extreme high quality performing movie. Nevertheless very watchable according to reviews.
The new form of advertising is a so-called viral one including friendfeed, facebook, youtube and twitter. Skittles did it last week, Watchmen does it since Januay 2009 already.
Gamedaily: The original Watchmen is a comic strip of rare detail and even rarer acclaim. While the Watchmen movie isn’t likely to receive the accolades that its graphic novel counterpart has received and richly deserved for the past two decades, it certainly has been composed with a high degree of reverence for its source material. This has shown through in all of its various promotions, crafted with an unusual degree of pride for promotional media. » Continue Reading…
Again it happened this week during a nasty aircraft crash in Amsterdam…who was the first to let the world know about the crash? Was it a local radio station, was it @nip, an (not anymore) unknown twiterazi working near Schiphol with outlooks on the crashed aircraft.
A couple of years ago it was Dan Gilmor who published his book we the media on grassroot journalism dismantling the monopoly of big media’s news. Let’s face it, it’s happening, whether we like it or not! Communication is created by conversations, and conversations are build up as fast as lighting on the digital highway.
It’s there, it’s not going away and professional mediacorporations have to embrace it instead of moaning about it.
A similar case happened years ago with photo journalism; with the upcoming market of Flickr, Picassa, Facebook photo and many more, there was little room for so-called professional stock agencies demanding too much money for stock photograpghy.
Yes; life has changed and is changing in a more rapid way than we all can imagine.
YouTube has updated its Annotations feature so you can now invite your friends to scrawl nonsense on your uploaded videos.
The feature was first introduced last June, and is proving very popular with self-promoters and the like, as it allows you to add speech bubbles, notes, and highlight boxes to your own videos. Read more here
If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos have been uploaded to the site. » Continue Reading…
In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent. To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks.
