The webosphere can be overwhelming in the way of videos. But it’s hard to resist looking for the next Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
To help orgazine the confusion and amusement, comes Radbox. The playlist website can combine videos from all the major vid sites. It’s as simple as dragging the Radbox bookmarklet into your toolbar. Click on it once you’re on a desired video site, when you’re ready to watch, Radbox will make it so you can watch all your faves in one cozy spot. It’s like a web couch.
Check out this excerpt from a recent blog post over at 4 Cryin Out Loud:
In the 2000 school of media– I know that visibility is everything. Writers want to be more popular than the artists/celebs they cover. We create websites using only our names. We make videos where we essentially interview ourselves. We bustle around town with equipment we don’t know how to use to be seen and “on the scene.” We participate in meaningless roundtable discussions that never lead anywhere, and serve no purpose–other than of course, to show that we were invited to the meaningless roundtable discussion.
Twitter has become the perfect medium for us media “tastemakers.”
We can participate in silly music related debates (debates that in no way have any bearing on the actual state of the industry, but serve only to illustrate that we can write 140 characters about whoever the rapper up for discussion is). We can articulate just how much we know, and how quickly we can discreetly google what we don’t know during an especially heated discussion. We can illustrate how smart we are. We can offer brazenly sarcastic commentary on every song that leaks or every ill-advised email blast we receive. After all, how else will people know how many unwanted emails we get per day, or how many people want us to listen to their music? We can brag about where we are, and where you aren’t. We can tell you where we just landed.
It hit me. Without Twitter, how will other “tastemakers” know that I am still “tastemaking?” How will they know I am witty and sarcastic? How will they know that I’m alive?! I mean, sure they can read my bylines or blogs, but…how will they really know if they are unable to read what I’m #nowplaying every hour on the hour– and that my musical taste (and therefore personality) is eclectic, yet grounded, well-informed but approachable? They won’t. That’s how.
My worth, I’ve found–both personally and professionally is synonymous with my Twitter Page.
And my Twitter Page no longer exists.
Therefore, I am… not.
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Thought provoking, at the very least. Drop a comment below and let us know if you agree, you don’t, or if you even care.
Not that either of these have much to do with each other, but the folks over at ScreenRant put this little mash up together and created something quite entertaining. If you didn’t know any better, you might think it was a real movie. Enjoy!
Can’t find the right word? Peep Visuwords, an online graphical super-dictionary. Seriously, it connects a word with homonyms, antonyms, synonyms and so much more. it’s the six degrees of separation for words. WIN.
Last night, this Hue Test from Xrite showed up in my inbox, and I have to admit, I was stoked to try it. I have always believed that I have some sort of magically color-seeing power and this was my golden opportunity to test it out.
The main screen is a series of colored squares, and the object is to arrange them in order by hue. I swear to you, when I was done I thought I had it perfect. Turns out I scored a 19…when a perfect score is 0. Womp Womp.
You might go with Bose for some serious docking systems and speakers, but sometimes you want to be cute too. And Speakal is all about the fun and funky and still manages to deliver quality sound.
The iPom, ($100), an apple-bottomed subwoofer with two removable flower speakers is the perfect gift for the girl headed to the dorm this August. It plays music from USB drives, SD cards, and any other sound source with a 3.5mm output.
And if you want to go a little geekier, shoot for the iBoo ($80) It’s definitely on my wish list.
We all knew that Apple operated a walled garden when it came to their image, and they are proving it once again by removing threads in their support forum that refer to the Consumer Reports article that found the iPhone 4 faulty. In essence, the report stated that Consumer Reports could not recommend the iPhone 4 due to an antenna glitch that the company feels Apple needs to fix. Well Apple can not be too happy about that, and has instead started to delete threads in their forums that refer to that study. I am not sure why they are so angry. Consumer Reports even offered a solution, just put a piece of duct tape on the antenna and it will stop the problem. [TUAW]
Though Blackberry may have things on lock when it comes to getting you your email, the entire OS experience has been lacking to say the least. Both Apple and Google have made tremendous strides with their respective operating systems and continue to widen he gap. But RIM has not been resting on its lions. In fact, BBOS6 should be quite an advancement in the experience category if the video below is more than just fancy camera tricks. The video shows features like aggregated social network integration, universal search, and the all-new WebKit-based browser (Thank GOODNESS). Take a look and let us know what you think.
I’m watching old episodes of “Rocko’s Modern Life” on nicktoons and loving it. Naturally, “Hey Arnold,” “Doug” and “As Told By Ginger” come to mind. What’s a girl got to do to see Ginger? The cartoon that so perfectly and progressively captured teen angst (sidenote: there was also a kick-ass theme song, an interracial romance and mucho diversity across the board) is hard to find. Sure there’s a few YouTube videos that are decent. But it’s not enough.
I go to Amazon to find some DVDs and get skimpy choices – two ATBG mini-movies. I’ll take it. But let’s get real Nickelodeon, if you’re not going to show it on one of your many channels, can you put out the DVD collection already. Doug and Arnold got their shine. Can Ginger get some love?
Remember how you wanted to include that picture of Hello Kitty in your email signature? Well Google has rolled out Rich Texts Signature for the discerning email signature aficionado. Just head to your Settings page [it is in the upper right] and scroll down to the signature section. From there you will be able to spice up your signature until your heart is content. In addition, you can also personalize which a separate signature for each individual address you have. I know, I know…I am excited also. [The Official Gmail Blog]
If you are a fan of Star Wars and you like TomTom, today is your lucky today. TomTom has announced a Star Wars themed voice pack that contains the voice of Master Yoda. To promote the pack, TomTom took some behind the scenes footage of Master Yoda’s voice over session and put it in a commercial. Lets me just say “funny it is” ! Enjoy! [Jalopnik]
