Myspace pages for cheese, doughnuts, light-bulbs, huge yarn balls and etc.
07/16/2007
Yes. Myspace has gone too far. There is a page for everything and everything has its page. Now you to can be friends with these inanimate objects:Grilled Cheese, who is 28, from Massachusetts, and has 155 friends.Duct Tape, who has 5791 friends.Box Cutter (135 friends, likes mostly emo and death metal).Or our personal fav friend,Suicide Note, because it's very wrong a ... Read More
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Searching for Video
07/12/2007
Yeah Google is doing it but will they come out on top? Are they on top now? Who else is searching for video? And why is it so hard?Comes down to the fact that computers can't really watch tv. Right now the best way to search for video is using conventional search methods that "read" the text around the video. This is why when you want people to watch your video on You ... Read More
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You-Tube search of the day: Real Transformers
07/09/2007
And I don't care what you say about Michael Bay the movie was decent until the end. . . Read More
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EARLY BLOGGERS LATE(R) IN LIFE: LIBBY AND ROBERTA'S ARTBLOG
06/27/2007
Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon have been writing Artblog since 2003. This is fairly early in the relatively short history of the blog. Though online diaries and early forms of the web-log have been with us since 1994, the actual term "web-log" wasn't coined (by Jorn Barger) until the 17th of December, 1997. The renown blogging site Blogger.com (used by our ladies) was ... Read More
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Uber.com vs. MySpace (or vs. Saatchi-gallery.co.uk)
03/19/2007
Why?: Though you can post your art work and especially your music to MySpace, MySpace is more for the "common" man/woman and wasn't created for the creative professional. Sites like Uber and Saatchi highlight the arts by blogging outstanding users.The test: Clout is really the issue here, who has the most? On the surface Saatchi has the name as it's already a well- ... Read More
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SecondLife vs. MySpace (Or SL vs. The World)
03/16/2007
Why?: Well, it's not just a social-networking site, it's also a massively multiplayer online game--a cross of MySpace, Monopoly and The Sims.The test: A comparison of the facts: In Second Life users choose a fictional name and create an avatar, an animated version of themselves that can walk, run, and dance. On MySpace you can post a cool flick of yourself, or someon ... Read More
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Break.com vs. YouTube
03/15/2007
Why?: On Break they advertise that you can earn money for your videos. . . up to $2,000 if it is posted to their home-page.The test: This time, since break has an emphasis on the videos posted on their home-page, I decided to look at what was at the top of their home-page vs. what was at the top of YouTube's home-page.YouTube:On Break.com, as on YouTube, it is very ... Read More
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JumpCut.com vs. YouTube
03/13/2007
The reason it's supposed to be better: Offers online editing and "easier" uploading.The test: I don't upload videos to YouTube, the only reason I use it is to find funny videos. So I tested the video-sharing sites as a viewer and not a user. I decided a good test would be searching for "Sparkling Wiggles":YouTube: On JumpCut there's no easy way to embed the videos i ... Read More
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Conservapedia.com vs. Wikipedia.org
03/12/2007
The reason for it's existence, straight from their main page:"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses. . . You will much prefer using Conservapedia compared to Wikipedia if you wa ... Read More
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A Week-long study of sites struggling to become the next Wikipedia, YouTube, and MySpace.
03/12/2007
Everyday of this week The Vulture will turn the "jaded gaze of it's gimlet eyes" to one of the new ventures in copying already-successful websites. Which one of these young up-starts will overthrow the monarchy to become the next new-old thing? Read More
