The Most Incredible Collaborative Music Video You Will Have Ever Seen.
Written on 3rd July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Directed by Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura and Masayoshi Nakamura, this a music video for Japanese band Sour and their song “Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of Everyday). The cast is actually a selection of their fans from countries across the globe…most incredibly… each person was filmed just with a webcam.
If you really pay attention to the details… you’ll see the amount of work that’s gone into this. It makes my head pound.
More info about the band here.
DEMO vs TC50. DEMO raises the bar – offers $2 million to winners.
Written on 3rd July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Until two years ago, DEMO, a conference franchise owned by technology publisher IDG, ruled the roost when it came to ‘company demonstration’ conferences. It took Techcrunch’s TC50 to really ruffle some feathers before the 17-year-old conference finally had some real competition.
The core differences between the two conferences? Well DEMO charges companies for the privilege of attending (the fee is now more than $18,000), whist TC50 primarily charges its sponsors (as well as companies presenting in their ‘demo pit’). DEMO tends to have larger, well funded companies promoting their goods. TC50 is a less glitzy affair, bringing unfunded companies often (more…)
Spotify releases its first audio book
Written on 2nd July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Spotify, the online media player, has announced the release of the first audio book – tts free and its by Wired Editor Chris Anderson.
The company are reportedly big fans of the Wired chief and his previous book, The Long Tail. Today however they help him market his new one, Free: The Future of a Radical Place, narrated by the man himself.
Chris Anderson struck up a bit of controversy recently when he was caught plagiarizing Wikipedia for a section of the book.
The plagiarism was discovered by Virginia Quarterly Review who found a number of passages that seemed to be copied from various (more…)
Michael Jackson is the First to Sell 1 Million Downloads in a Week
Written on 2nd July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
So not only is the music icon breaking records alive, but he’s doing it from the grave too. Michael Jackson has become the first artist to sell 1 million downloads in a single week according to Billboard’s latest sales chart.
Fans bought a record-breaking 2.6 million Jackson solo recordings and Jackson Five songs, according to Nielsen SoundScan data for the week ending June 28.
Jackson also dominated Billboard’s “Comprehensive Album Chart,” which tracks both new albums and older catalog albums — the first time a catalog album has ever scanned more sales than any new album.
Jackson himself has a record eight out of the top 10, while a Jackson 5 compilation also finds its way into the chart. The King of Pop’s “Number Ones” leads the pack at (more…)
Life with First-Person Shooter Disease
Written on 2nd July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
This man has a disease you may have not heard of, its called Duke Nukem’s disease. Gene Simkins brings you the story what life is like with what has come to be known as First-Person Shooter Disease…
Gmail gets drag & drop labels, hidden labels, and more…
Written on 1st July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Google has today added a number of updates to the way labels work in GMail.
The popular email app now lets you drag and drop your labels to see them act more like folders of sorts. They can be placed above your chat list and sit along side drafts, starred and the other core labels.
You can now also hide labels that you just generally don’t use. They’re not technically hidden of course, they’re simply placed in a “more” section, making them convenient to access when you might need them again.
You can edit labels in bulk in your settings panel too, but most excitingly (at least for me), you can now drag and drop messages into labels – making the app more desktop like than ever before.
The blog post announcing the update, highlights the fact that this will mean the end of one of Gmail’s first lab features – Right-Side Labels. Google say they always had aimed to make the most popular Gmail lab features an fully integrated part of gmail in the long term, and it appears that Right-Side Labels is the first to make the cut.
Disappointingly, I can’t see the new features enabled in Google Apps just yet. If anyone does, please do let us know.
When people feel the need to share too much. Yep, there’s a site for that.
Written on 1st July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
I for one love spotting (& sharing) the odd bit of TMI (too much information) on the web, it makes me feel closer to whoever’s sharing the interesting nugget and in my case, it gives me the opportunity to get something off my chest. Unfortunately, there are many out there who don’t quite feel quite the same, but for those that do…we have a new home…Oversharers.com.
No sooner had a site appeared on the scene dedicated to ego-centric Tweets, another site launches devoted to people who share a little too much when tweeting, friendfeeding, (more…)
Digg Duplicate Detection Fail
Written on 1st July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Digg today announced (in their own words) “major updates to our dupe detection technology and content submission process that should go a long way in eliminating duplicate submissions.”
Clearly the site needs to go back to the drawing board because as I write this, two stories with almost equal amount of Diggs, posted at similar times sit awkwardly underneath each other on the Digg front page.
To prove I’m not making this up, this is one story and this is the other and here is a screenshot (more…)
Twitter Makes Significant UI Changes (well, significant for Twitter…)
Written on 1st July 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Twitter has made a number of subtle changes to your following and followers lists. The changes make it easier to see information about the people you’re connected with.
You can view people in list view or expanded, and next to each profile is a settings option to disable or enable mobile phone notifications (or an option to follow the user if you’re not already) as well as links to mention, unfollow/follow or block a user.
Considering the very few changes Twitter generally makes, this is the equivalent of a design overhaul!
More Social Media Cushions…but this time with added Friendfeed
Written on 30th June 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Before you groan…it should come as no surprise by now that I’m a big Friendfeed fan, and so irrespective of the fact that I have personally posted a cushion post before and you may wonder why this is post worthy…Well, these are the first cushions I’ve seen with Friendfeed embroidered on them, so there… :)
Oh and you can by them from Etsy!
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