Archive | August 5, 2008

The First YouTube Election

1959 was the first TV election with the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Paris Hilton has just become iconic this election… demonstrating that a dubious, accidental celebrity can instantly transform her brand with a smart timely YouTube video in response to a McCain commercial: Watch this 2008 election and see how the social media begins to infiltrate the [...]

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Demonstration on The Future of Information Overload

This well produced video on Aurora, a concept browser of the future being developed by Adaptive Path in collaboration with Mozilla Labs (affiliated with Firefox), actually highlights the glaring problems of information overload: Too many online data sources provide conflicting information, so no conclusions can comfortably be made. Examples: housing market, oil prices, economy… who [...]

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