Wow, never thought that CSI would use Visual Basic to track criminals:

And watch out for the speech bubble – didn’t know that this is possible on YouTube.

Via Peter Monadjemi

Very cool:

Thanks to Julian from Universal Music who pointed me to this video!

Great! Producers and licensors are losing their fear of the social media websites:

If something is going wrong it is and it always was popular to blame a technology for it (mostly because a technology can not response to it). The church did it for example when printing was invented and Andrew Keen is doing so in his blog post The Great Seduction: Confessions of an Internet iconoclast. He is blaming the Web 2.0 for destroying our culture and business. He is right in his analysis, but wrong in his conclusions:

The biggest financial problem is that the supposedly new media economy of blogs and YouTube videos isn’t making the content creators much money. That’s because today’s digital technology has made almost all content free, thereby undermining media’s historically successful business model of selling content to consumers. [...] The greatest losers, then, in this great cultural transformation are our traditional creative class – professional musicians, journalists, film-makers, photographers and animators — who are now struggling to monetize their talent in an advertising saturated economy where all the serious cash is being channeled to technology providers like Google, YouTube and MySpace.

Yes, people are not willing to pay for content, because the content does not provide an added value to them! In the past, information was restricted. It provided a competitive advantage or it gave you social status. In the Internet age, information is available everywhere and everytime. Thus our old business models fail and companies that relied on these old business models will fail too! That’s economy. That’s evolution. Don’t blame technology for it!

I do not agree with Andrew Keen that the creative class is suffering from these changes. The opposite is true. Never in history there have been such possibilities for creative persons to show and to monetize their work without the need of large corporations. The Internet democratizes the media distribution. Thus more people will profit, but in less quantity. It’s bad for a few, but good for many.

I agree with Andrew Keen that technology providers like Google, YouTube and MySpace profit most from the new business paradigm, but only because the existing market players are not willing to invest in new market ideas. The media companies have to overcome their fear and to reconquer their markets. They know better how to serve the consumers’ needs than a technology provider like Google. They have the content that consumers are urging for, but they have to unclose their content.

So take the risks and have a good time!

Martin

If you wake up one day in such a company: then run!

Crazy art:

Watch them all.

My workday started today with watching the 23 Tage movie:

It is really funny. Enjoy the film.

Goodbye and stay tuned.

This is an advocacy for personal creativity by Michael Wesch:

Nerdcore gives a very useful summary of this video. The video is definitly a must seen. Enjoy the 55 minutes.

Wie geil ist das denn:

Kino 2.0!

(For our English readers: this is a movie about the UEFO Euro 2008 soccer championship and it is made of YouTube videos which 2100 fans send in during the 23 days of the Euro 2008 – thus the title of the movie 23 days.)