Sunday Embed: O/S 2 Warp
Sean Tice
Ready, set, Internet! Thoughts on web trends and behind the scenes looks at Wallstrip and MobLogic.tv.
Jun 15
Jun 14
“ Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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Vinod Khosla, Inventing the Internet: An Oral History
In the second half of the 1800s, rural mid-west farmers had a tough time obtaining quality and reasonably priced goods from distant Chicago. The introduction of railroad tracks changed all that - tracks as a conduit for exchanging goods is obvious, but it was Montgomery Ward who introduced the mail order catalog (or directory of goods, if you will) to the farmers, thus enabling them to take advantage of this new mode of transportation. Crops and wood went into the city for processing and distribution, furniture, clothing, and books went out to the farmers for consumption.
Jun 11
I thought we all agreed pay-per-view doesn’t work? More on Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones here.
Jun 09
The Godfather, Choose Your Own Adventure Style
While we toy around with YouTube’s new annotations, the kids at Force Theory are really putting the tool to the test with a choose your own adventure-ized version of Coppola’s The Godfather.
Annotations don’t show up in embeds from YouTube, so go here to really take it for a spin.
Jun 08
Sunday Embed: Every Sunday I’ll be embedding a video from the vault, while in bed. Get it?
Jun 04
» YouTube Introduces Annotations
So many possibilities. Lots to come with MobLogic and Wallstrip on YouTube.
Jun 03
“ Maybe they’re going to be known as ’the little g’ rather than ’The Big G’ from now on…
— Google’s New Favicon, Google Blogoscoped
» Sudden Disconnect Over Social Networking Deal
Can you bring down the walled garden and still make buckets of cash? Seems like an either/or scenario. (via AD)