Second Life Hits One Million Residents/The Ringleader Helps His Friend Get Dressed And Listens to His First Secondcast

One Million may not seem a lot to AOL who has hordes of folks on their sites looking with side blinders at their content.


One Million engaged uses, THAT is a big deal!


Yesterday I helped my old buddy find some clothes in Second Life. I have been telling all of my friends about SL for over seven months now and he is the first to jump on it immediately, Blake, love ya man, you got vision!


On my way to work I listened to my first Episode of the SecondCast. Talk about a stoned sounding, wise cracking, absolutely hilariously bunch (who seem to know SL pretty well too :) ) They interviewed THE Aimee Weber [today] which in my book is always a plus (yes, I realize this cast was recorded weeks ago but for me, in my world it was today dammit!)




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Standing on the Shoulders of Michael Arrington

This is for those of you who do not read his blog, this blog is merely to spread the world that since Supernova (and before) I realized that Michael has got it going on. Here are some things he has spoke about, I would love to hear feedback on the products and, I would love to hear that you have started reading TechCrunch


Michael, I hope you don't see this post for what it is (me posting what you have reported). I hope you see it as an homage :) !




file sharing


Eddie B of Resonant Vibes, I better hear some feedback



Mac lovers!



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Out Of Contextaul Advertising

For a long time I have claimed the web to be about people, not places. A study performed in January furthers this theory and an article in Mediapost today recounts it.


I have never understand the "ethical" arguments against behavioral targeting. I would truly love for someone to present to me a valid argument.



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To Propagate, Premier or Preach?

I guess I have a certain meta-blogging style sometimes. I am not always the first one pull down the hottest info from the PR wires but, I re distribute some good stuff to people who have similar interests. The truth is I don't always have something interesting to say but I like to talk :).


I would love some feedback as to what people like best. Sometimes I am feeling preachy and other times I have some hot new info.


This is a conversation and I will do my best to make amediacir.us only mine. I would love if you had some ownership. Let me know your thoughts. What do you want more of, less etc.


One thing I can say is we have not had a second installation of Language Is Media by Char. I am waiting for a post from EMLAS. HH is missing, where are you guys? EBABBAGE, where is the love?


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MyCasting

Allow me to coin a phrase. Okay so, there is really nothing original about saying "MyCast" (have a look what others are doing with the term. I am sure not talking weather) in fact, this concept is everywhere these days but I feel the bottom line of all of the new distribution models and user generated content results in what Jarvis say about the consumer as network programmer.


I was watching Reliable Sources on CNN this morning and the topic was GooTube (what a shock!). They showed a clip from Jeff Jarvis's You Tube Video and he said a number of things that I really liked. Below is and bullets of the thing I loved:




  • "Explosion of the new television"

    • The idea of the exploding TV is interpreted by some as the end of TV. What Jarvis is saying is not the end of TV in fact it is quite the opposite.  



  • "The Worlds Largest TV Guide"

  • "With YouTube what Google Gets is People"

  • "YouTube made television social"

  • "[you tube] turned us into network programmers"

  • Putting ads where the people are

  • "The Google Nichecasting Networks"








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Who are you Yahoo?

A recent article in the New York Times discussed the increasing woes for Internet giant Yahoo. To be honest, the only thing I ever use on Yahoo as a consumer is Flikr but, as mentioned on The Daily Search Cast, Flikr is not always as easy to use for the not-too-savvy individual as some would hope. For those who do not already have a Yahoo account, creating a Flikr account can be a deterrent and their are too many other services out there for consumers to spend time filling out yet another profile.


As someone in the industry, I must say that I am not unhappy to read such an article about Yahoo as, their search advertising platform leaves a lot to be desired. Google is simply light years ahead of Yahoo in terms of technology and customer support.


The question is, who are you Yahoo?


That fact is that Yahoo does a lot of things well but excels at none of them.



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Second Music

Will the music industry be saved? In my eyes, it never was in danger of being lost as, I am not in the industry and do not really care what the future of the labels is as long as I got some good tunes. The true artist will always create regardless of industry. Besides this whole time the only for the artist was lack of syndication channels (which is not a threat anymore).


Even in years past, the cheddar was made (by the artist) through concerts and appearances, not record sales. It is great to see the labels entering second life and leveraging this relatively low cost means of generating buzz (and one day revenue).


On top of all that, it is pretty friggin cool!


Find out more about this image at Secret Lair (that is where I got it)


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Kill Your Television!

Ok, so I stole that headline but, I will lead you to it's authors. When I see a headline like that, I cannot resist!


Meet Revision 3 (for those who do not know it of course)



Yet another reason that I will be able to sleep at night knowing that I can get great video wherever I want, on my time!


When I went to the site's "about us" page I saw a very bold statement:


Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, clients and web sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating, producing its own original entertainment and content.


I realize that this company was started by all stars but, I would love to hear more about why they feel they are the first media company to get it. I am not saying I am skeptical rather, this is my invitation for an of these guys to give us a little more on why they feel that what or, just plug Revision3 and get a new some new viewers


Jay Adelson Chairman, CEO


David Prager COO, VP of Programming


Kevin Rose Producer, Diggnation, Systm, thebroken


Dan Huard Producer, Systm, thebroken


Ron Gorodetzky Director of Technology


Alex Albrecht Producer, Diggnation, Ctrl Alt Chicken


Heather Stewart Ctrl Alt Chicken


Martin Sargent Producer, Infected, Webdrifter


Wil Wheaton InDigital: Your Life in Gear


Joey Rabier Post Production, Infected


Jay Speiden Infected


Hahn Choi Producer, InDigital: Your Life in Gear


Jessica Corbin InDigital: Your Life in Gear


Stewart Essenger Producer, Writer, Mysteries of Science, Explained!


Bert Monroy PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy


Tom Rowles Producer, Post Production, thebroken, NOTMTV


Jonathan London Producer, Geekdrome


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One of Many Posts Today/If I had $1.3 billion to spare.com


I am sure this is one of 1000 blog posts but, I had to comment!


A while back I was involved in this conversation about whether or not Google is a media company:


The Conversation


Are they a media company now?


Does the fact that You Tube tends to be consumer generated media exempt Google from being in the evil media industry that they are so desperately trying to avoid association with?


Do I think this is a good move you ask?


Nope


What is their about You Tube that cannot be had elsewhere?


Sure the audience is their but, they can just as easily go to Blip.tv or another social network/video site.


Does You Tube have superior technology?


 I don't think so.


I am confused with this one!


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