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!

The Yellow Smiley Face

This is “a heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America.” It’s a nice depiction of how people interact with technology. This is a Romanian film directed by Constantin Popesc. Found at YouTube from FutureShorts.

Yahoo! Messenger Thinks I’m German!

Yahoo! Messenger Thinks I’m German – 07/08/09, originally uploaded by DavidErickson. This appeared on my Yahoo! Messenger news window today, for no apparent reason. Guess I’ll have to take up German, though I’d planned on my next language being Italian.

Twitter In Plain English

Another of Lee Lefever’s wonderful CommonCraft In Plain English series videos came out in March last month, this one about Twitter:

Microblogging In Plain English

I am a huge fan of the microblogging service Twitter (which, by the way, explains why I was so upset when my estrategy Twitter account just up and stopped working and Twitter ignored my pleas for help. I’m still fairly bitter about it, but, you know, sometimes you just gotta move on. I have another [...]

Marketing To Millennials Presentation

This is a presentation for a seminar Pat Lilja, my colleague at Tunheim Partners, and I conducted on Wednesday for some public health people who are interested in how to reach the Millennial generation. We will have video of the session soon.

Google Buys Jaiku – Is Jaiku Now A Twitter Killer?

Mashable reported yesterday that Google had acquired the microblog service Jaiku and asked the obvious: Why not Twitter? (Robert Scoble says Google’s going to couple Jaiku with their social networking service, Orkut). Microblogging services such as Jaiku, Twitter, and Pownce combine the publishing technology of blogs  with the ability to update your microblog via a standard [...]

Emoticons – An Essential Online Communication Tool :-)

Emoticons Originally uploaded by d.rex The humble smilely face emoticon [and it's opposite: ] turn 25 years old today. The text symbol for happiness,  approval, and humor was invented by Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman twenty five years ago today as a tool to avoid misunderstanding of [...]

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