Trend: Haul Videos

Haul videos are the democratization of the home shopping network. They typically feature teen girls just back from the mall, shopping bag in hand, gushing over their purchases (or “haul”) to their webcam to be uploaded to YouTube for the world to see. Haul videos are funny, a little weird, and they’re the latest thing. The following [...]

Have You Been Nexted? Chatroulette Explained

In my quest to bring you all varieties of online behavior, there’s chatroulette. Chatroulette is the act of conducting random video chats with complete strangers from around the world. Casey Neistat explains. WORK WARNING: Video includes profanity and some adult themes. Found at Vimeo from Casey Neistat via The Awl via Holy Haw!

David Pogue’s Internet Parody Medley

New York Times personal tech columnist David Pogue performs a medley of songs parodying the Internet. Songs include Piano Man, I Got You Babe, YMCA. It’s hilarious! Found at TwitVid from Laura Dunn via Blois Olson.

Google Buzz Impressions

Uploaded to Flickr by Tilak Bisht

[/caption] After playing around with Google Buzz since its release, some thoughts: Large Networks: It is most useful and beneficial to those who already had large networks in place. The Robert Scobles and Pete Cashmores and even the Steve Rubels (who’s been pretty much thumbs-down on Buzz) of [...]

Google Nexus One Smartphone Unboxing…Ninja Style

This sure looks like it should be an official Google ad for the Nexus One but it appears to be just some super-talented animator showing off his stuff. Found at YouTube from PatrickBoivin via Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s Your Tech Weblog.

Career Advice For College Students

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[/caption] I spent a good chunk of the last two weeks, my vacation, setting up a social media presence for some of my nieces and nephews who are either in the process of applying to colleges or have just begun their careers. Geek that I am, I bought them domain [...]

2009: Year In Review Via Google Wave

Found at YouTube from rockyourwhirled via TechCrunch via AdAge via Holy Kaw!

Using Online Analytics For Insight Into News Consumption

These are some links to resources I will talk about during my session for The Other Future of News event today: Web Analytics Google Analytics – Google’s sophisticated Web analytics service – Free Google AdPlanner – Google’s traffic statistics for any site not owned by Google Quantcast – Another Web traffic analytics tool Clicky- Sophisticated real-time Web analytics service [...]

New Facebook Privacy Opens The Floodgates, Offers More Control

The new privacy settings Facebook is rolling out today should have the ironic effect of substantially increasing the volume of user-created content that is available to the general public, according to All Facebook: As Chris Cox stated on today’s privacy call, “everyone is the new default” for status updates and links. Facebook made sure to highlight that [...]

Facebook Relationship Status: Just Married

This couple changed their Facebook relationship statuses to Married and tweeted about it…at the alter. Found at YouTube from Locuester.

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