"videos" entries
Where 2.0: Outside.in's New Features and the Ghost Map
At Where 2.0 last week Steven Johnson showed off new features on his local news and blog start-up Outside.in. The site initially launched with a blog post driven look at neighborhoods, but now more map-centric features have been added that provide some informing views. It is a great demonstration of why bloggers (and blogging platforms) should start geotagging their…
Google Developer Day Videos Posted
As you saw from the many posts yesterday the Google Developer Day was full of announcements and in-depth technical sessions. 63 videos from Google Dev Days around the world have been posted to YouTube. Jeff Huber's US keynote (below) introduced the Mashup Editor (Radar post) and gave a concise overview of Gears (Radar post) and Mapplets (Radar post). Other…
Supermarket 2.0 Video
This Supermarket 2.0 parody video is really cute. It creatively applies Web 2.0 terms and concepts to the food shopping experience. The Pandora-style shopping experience mid-way through is especially excellent. It was created as guerilla marketing for Israeli startups UrbanSeeder and Wishood. Through a mix of web and real-world cards UrbanSeeder allows you to get to know someone anonymously…
The Video Library of Alexandria
One of the fun things about YouTube is that it is a very effective magnet for rare or unavailable video clips. In that, it certainly seems like an appropriate purchase for Google, much like DejaNews before it. Today I was looking around and happened across a clip of Nina Simone singing "My Baby Just Cares for Me," with claymation by…
Video Definition of Web 2.0
The video "Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us" is an interesting journey from written text to Web 2.0. This is the second draft of KSU Professor Michael Wesch'sresponse to an older video entitled Web 2.0 (it's an application-level look at the Internet). Bonus: they are both about five minutes in length. "The Machine" is a video full of…
WoW and Cottage Industries
MySpace, eBay, Google, and Amazon are large enough to support a number of cottage industries and services on the Web. I think that Second Life is developing into one (right now it seems to be able to support individuals and consulting firms). With the launch of Shawn Fanning's Rupture, a YASN (yet-another-social-network) for World Of Warcraft players, I realized that…
Data Animations from Open Street Map
Open Street Map is a community built editable map that was featured at Where 2.0 2006 . They use user-contributed GPS traces as one of their data sources. At FOSS4G, I was just shown these great time-lapse animations of some data in London and Great Britian growing. OSM is working with a London-based courier firm that provides GPS units to…