The Chicken, The Egg, or Social Networking?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
WHOA!
Since when could you start recording videos through YouTube?



I saw this little button when I was uploading this completely random video I found buried within my hard drive from my days on the squad (sidenote: why are cheerleaders the only ones on a 'squad' when pretty much every other athlete is considered part of a 'team?').



Anyways, I was pretty sure this wasn't possible a few months when Aron & I concepted and submitted our future lions campaign idea for Hallmark which included mass video greeting cards on which you can upload yourself instantly.




But when I investigated further, I got stuck in YT limbo, clicking on the same two links a few times before I figured it out it wasn't going to work...Is it not functioning because I'm on a Mac or because I need to register for/download something or is it just plain not functional yet?




Can anyone enlighten me on this subject?

I ran into a similar scenario recently when I was simultaneously posting a tweet on my iPhone and driving (was technically in the backseat at the time - not literally driving) from home in South Carolina back down to Miami. I was suddenly inspired and posted this:

"Just crossed the border into Georgia! I want to invent a roadtwip app using twitter and gps/google maps!" 12:11 PM Jun 17th from TwitterFon

And out of nowhere someone replied to that tweet last week:

"KurtyD@sevenmir your roadtwip sounds fun. check out what we did http://roadtwip.us/bk.html c'mon!1:14 AM Jun 29th from web"



It's exactly the same name. I mean I guess it's not THE most original thought ever, but still. The internet is so incestuous.

Twitter Taking Over

Speaking of social media, here's a more positive post to lighten the mood of my blog. I was checking my favorite fake news site, The Onion when I stumbled across this banner ad. Even though I specialize in interactive and digital advertising, I never click on banner ads. But there are always exceptions to the rule.







It really does filter words from your recent tweets, but I'm pretty sure there is no real analysis involved and it directs you to the Routan every time. If you think this is cool, check out the Banner Blog where you can actually interact with the best banners the web has to offer.

Now back to Twitter, who has partnered with Threadless to offer tees inspired by peoples' tweets.

Personal Space

Here's some stuff that will make you feel like an insignificant speck in an infinite universe...

Found this via one of Anne's twitter posts. Interactive Art Direction specialists at Hyper Island in collaboration with the Swedish Space Corporation is sending our messages to space! Hurry, tho. There's only 8 more days til the launch!





I was a little surprised to see one of the first messages from a familiar name. :)



Yea, my message is a little cheese-tastic. But it's true.



Gotta love those Swedes! It almost makes me want to drive up to Disney World in Orlando just to ride Space Mountain.

Next, I found this little social experiment called twistori. It's inspired by We Feel Fine, which I've posted about before, but it anonymously aggregates peoples' tweets in real time based on a couple of keywords.




It was created by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs of Slash7, and you can even download it as a screensaver (for macs, anyways).

WTF

What...the...facebook?

I find it ironic that the basic idea of twitter is facebook statuses with a character limit, and now facebook is attempting to turn itself into twitter. I hate it. It's like social network incest.
Pretty soon its just going to be one big myfacetwitbookspacer and it will be directly wired to your brain like the matrix so your statuses will be updated as soon as you think them.



Facebook has progressively been sucking more and more. I just have too many friends and photo tags to get rid of it.

collective election coverage

current tv, digg and twitter are collectively covering the election tomorrow. i'm going to try to tune in because it's probably going to be more relevant to my gemeration than what i would see on fox or msnbc.

trying to tweet

i finally joined the dark side. i signed up for twitter. and this is what i have to show for it so far:


i've posted one lonely message and i have no friends. i mean, i've tried to find out which of my friends have also signed up for the service, and i have to admit the email list search tool is kind of nifty. but when i tried to search for people individually i get this lovely screen:



so, i guess i have to try to tweet again later.

if you don't know what twitter is yet, watch this: