Music videos to me are generally a thing of the 80s, it puts visions of MTV station idents and piles of VHS casettes into my head. But I love this video, I won’t explain why because that would spoil it for you. Enjoy:
Big shout to my mate Si for flagging this one up to me. Courtesy of the High Contrast blog and more details on the shoot here.
Links of the day
GameCrush Lets Guys Pay Money To Play Online Games With Women (Seriously) – they should rake it in: its an escort agency for losers
EconPapers: Trust network sclerosis: the hazard of trust in innovation investment communities – shared identity and experience serve as proxies for trust in influencing decisions, and subsequently how trust can serve as a proxy for thorough due diligence
British ISPs open door to paid prioritization | Benton Foundation – of course this assumes that their networks aren’t as impotent as boiled spaghetti
The eternal antitrust case: Microsoft versus the world – good overview
comScore Gives Twitter Traffic Victory Over MySpace | WebProNews – just goes to prove the analogy that social networks are like new hot restaurants or nightclubs and when you’re out you are out
Study: Microsoft has ‘fallen off the mainstream media’s radar’ – interesting survey findings given Microsoft’s slick media machine and PR measurement methodology. I wonder what’s happening?
David Segal: Stop the Internet Blacklist – interesting moves in the US, it affects the open nature of the web and means that the west can’t point fingers at other regimes over web censorship
BSkyB to challenge requests for customer information from ACS:Law | guardian.co.uk
HP: No Android Smartphone or Tablet | AllThingsD – it makes sense given that they’ve invested in WebOS
It’s time to reap the context-aware harvest – PARC blog – PARC’s contribution to the web-of-no-web
Q&A: When Ping Is Not Your Thing – NYTimes.com – turning off Apple’s new social network
MediaPost Publications Boomers And The New (Normal) Economy 09/27/2010 – being frugal and the challenges that it poses to marketers
Echo Sonar: Whose opinion matters? – not sure I agree with this appeal for the mainstream media. Are journalists really experts?
Canvas8’s keeping TABS (September 2010) – nice PDF on trends
MediaShift . How Aftonbladet Varies Paid Content with Clubs, Micropayments | PBS – are you listening Mr Murdoch
A Detailed Look at Apple and Google’s Fight for Mobile Developer Attention
Gawker’s Denton: Twitter’s Audience ‘Too Elite’; Blogs Look Ludicrous | paidContent – as ever a source of a good soundbite
2010 acquisitions–Microsoft: 0 Google: 23 – CNET News – interesting pace of acquisition
FT relaunches Weekend Magazine with ‘Smart but Casual’ campaign – Brand Republic News – is it me or does feel very Economist in its campaign tone?
Econsultancy roundtable: CRM is dominating the social media agenda | Populate Digital
Joint statement by CIPR, ASA and CAP – by the looks of it social media community management and direct-to-consumer activity still falls into ASA. Blogger relations and online press release distribution don’t
The Social Media Words & Phrases Most Retweeted – social power words
UK Med School Students Get a New Prescription: iPhones – iPhone increasingly becoming embedded into healthcare
48 Hours In: Tokyo – 48 Hours In, Travel – The Independent
Gawker Founder: The Future of Online Media Is Video – is it? Really?
Sony Ericsson LiveView acts as a 1.3-inch remote control for your smartphone, requires Android 2.0 — Engadget – interesting move, Sony Ericsson’s device looks very similar to the MIT vision of wearable computing from a number of years ago
AOL-TechCrunch Deal: Pros and Cons | AllThingsD – there is a certain irony in this deal if it goes through
Time Life: The last digital holdout – Fortune Tech – following a demographic
Obama administration wants encryption backdoors for domestic surveillance – Boing Boing – of course this means that criticising other governments on having a surveillance state
Deal Profile: Unilever to Buy Alberto-Culver for $3.7 Billion – WSJ – interesting move that strengthens Unilever by taking out a competitor. It does make me wonder about all the brands that Unilever sold a few years ago though
A press scholar explains how the New York Times op-ed page got started. – Slate Magazine – the history of the op ed
FT.com | China puts healthcare under scrutiny – interesting that they got NICE on board
What are the best blogs about data? – Quora – interesting set of blogs – gnarly geek stuff here
22 Social Media Marketing Management Software & Services Reviewed – Online Marketing Blog – some familiar and new stuff here
Next generation haptic displays
Haptics are about the touch aspect of user interfaces. We’ve been used to them for a while in cellphones with a vibrating alert, the PlayStation2 rumble pack hand controller, but Nokia Research have been showing New Scientist how they would take it to the next level…
Great interview with Profesor Tim Yu on net neutrality
The US arguments over Net neutrality is interesting especially since the EU is now looking at net neutrality guidelines. Tim Yu at Columbia University did a lot of pioneering work around this in the US. It is interesting when they get on to discussing Google’s moves on net neutrality.
Thanks to Engadget. You can check out Tim’s academic papers here.
Amazing MIT Media Lab video
I found this MIT media lab video via Marc Ecko, much more intuitive than Adobe Photoshop – it could bring a whole new level creativity from kids to artists.