The turn from television to online streaming is creating a social scene that resembles a giant living room with a hundred-thousand people watching the same movie. From You Tube to Vimeo to Hulu, to Netflix. Social Media covers a broad spectrum of viewing platforms, and the impact of community is the same no matter [...]
Samsung recently funded an impressive viral video project involving sheep, border collies, shepherds, and a much less likely addition—LEDs. The sheep were herded into creative shapes by the shepherds and their dogs. While cameras filmed the hills from a distance, sheep ran across them. The shepherds formed their flocks into all kinds of [...]
Boxee’s latest beta release is pretty nice looking; offering a media center solution for those who don’t have—or for some reason hate—Windows Media Center. Boxee’s format is aesthetically appealing, but what’s most appealing about Boxee is its social tools. For example, users are able to receive recommendations from friends on what to watch.
This social [...]
Remember when MTV used to play music videos? That was great, wasn’t it? An entire channel devoted to broadcasting music videos for the world to see. For a musician, getting a video on MTV was once an incredibly lucrative achievement. Making it onto a video countdown practically promised a massive sales [...]