Archives
July 2006
7/31/06
7/31/06
7/31/06
7/31/06
7/28/06
7/28/06
7/27/06
7/27/06
7/27/06
7/27/06
7/27/06
7/26/06
7/26/06
7/25/06
7/25/06
MySpace: Music and Marines
7/21/06
7/21/06
7/18/06
7/18/06
7/17/06
7/17/06
7/14/06
7/14/06
7/13/06
7/12/06
7/12/06
7/12/06
7/11/06
7/11/06
7/11/06
7/11/06
7/10/06
7/7/06
7/7/06
7/7/06
7/7/06
7/6/06
7/5/06
7/5/06
7/5/06
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
4:44:00 PM EDT
Hearing Beck, Jack-Ass
Hi folks -- sorry I missed yesterday; I'm still untangling from a bunch
of unfinished stuff from last week.
I've got a bunch of potential blog entries that are getting dangerously close to their "Blog By" expiration date; here are two from last week about our favorite outrageously popular social network/whipping boy, MySpace (unrelated to their downtime yesterday due to the power outages in California):
The first is a MySpace-themed music video on social video sharing site YouTube; it's from hip-hop band Gym Class Hereoes, and I'm using the embedded YouTube video player to show it below:
The video takes the standard MySpace behaviors and brings them into the physical world -- if you're familiar with MySpace and their friend approval process and the MySpace profile cliches and stereotypes, it's pretty funny. Plus, there's a happy ending.
Of course, the band has a MySpace -- right now, they have, oh, 98,640 friends.
In other MySpace news, there was an AP story about how the Marine Corps also has a MySpace, to help them reach out to young people who are potential recruits.
The article mentions that previously, folks (such as the Army, which has its own free video game as a recruiting tool) had been hesitant to set up a presence on MySpace, because of all the well-publicized accounts of various crimes and shenanigans involving the social network, but it seems like it's too juicy of an opportunity for them to resist.
So here's the Marine MySpace if you want to check it out.
[Reminder: If you want to embed video from YouTube or UnCut Video, both of these are beta features; if all goes well, we should be installing them to production this week. In the meantime, if you want to play around, here's Editor Jeff's entry on how to embed YouTube video; you follow similar procedures with UnCut Video -- just click "Snag an Embeddable Player" and copy that code. We'll have full instructions after the successful launch.]
Thanks -- Joe
Written by journalseditor Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | 
digg this
4:44:00 PM EDT
Hearing Beck, Jack-Ass
MySpace: Music and Marines
I've got a bunch of potential blog entries that are getting dangerously close to their "Blog By" expiration date; here are two from last week about our favorite outrageously popular social network/whipping boy, MySpace (unrelated to their downtime yesterday due to the power outages in California):
The first is a MySpace-themed music video on social video sharing site YouTube; it's from hip-hop band Gym Class Hereoes, and I'm using the embedded YouTube video player to show it below:
The video takes the standard MySpace behaviors and brings them into the physical world -- if you're familiar with MySpace and their friend approval process and the MySpace profile cliches and stereotypes, it's pretty funny. Plus, there's a happy ending.
Of course, the band has a MySpace -- right now, they have, oh, 98,640 friends.
In other MySpace news, there was an AP story about how the Marine Corps also has a MySpace, to help them reach out to young people who are potential recruits.
The article mentions that previously, folks (such as the Army, which has its own free video game as a recruiting tool) had been hesitant to set up a presence on MySpace, because of all the well-publicized accounts of various crimes and shenanigans involving the social network, but it seems like it's too juicy of an opportunity for them to resist.
So here's the Marine MySpace if you want to check it out.
[Reminder: If you want to embed video from YouTube or UnCut Video, both of these are beta features; if all goes well, we should be installing them to production this week. In the meantime, if you want to play around, here's Editor Jeff's entry on how to embed YouTube video; you follow similar procedures with UnCut Video -- just click "Snag an Embeddable Player" and copy that code. We'll have full instructions after the successful launch.]
Thanks -- Joe
Written by journalseditor Blog about this entry |
Add to del.icio.us | digg this
