The Webby Awards list

The 10 most most influential Internet moments of the decade:

- Craigslist online classified site expands outside San Francisco (2000)
- the launch of Google AdWords (2000)
- the launch of online encyclopedia Wikipedia (2001)
- the shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001)
- Google’s initial public offering (2004)
- the online video revolution led by YouTube (2006)
- Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter launches (2006)
- Apple’s iPhone debuts (2007)
- the use of the Internet in the US presidential campaign (2008)
- the use of Twitter during the Iranian election protests (2009)

Do with this what you will!

One interesting point – hoping technometry gets on this list sometime…!

I’ve got a Virus and its contagious

Hello world. Here I am.

Hello!

It used to be – Hey, Mom look at Me! If you wanted to be famous you had to get on TV.

Apparently there are three things people want in life – Wealth, Fame, and Happiness.

Today’s Buzzword: SocialMedia

I found this neat video on YouTube explaining the practical application of Social Media. Fantastic. I then performed what is now second nature to many netizens – and entered “Social Media” into Google and Wikipedia.

So what does Social Media really mean?

Here is a definition from Brian Solis posted on webpronews.com:

“Social media describes the online tools that people use to share content, profiles, opinions, insights, experiences, perspectives and media itself, thus facilitating conversations and interaction online between groups of people. These tools include blogs, message boards, podcasts, micro blogs, lifestreams, bookmarks, networks, communities, wikis, and vlogs.

A few prominent examples of social media applications are Wikipedia (reference), MySpace and Facebook (social networking), Twitter and Jaikue (presence apps), YouTube (video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Upcoming (Events), Digg and Reddit (news aggregation), Flickr and Zooomr (photo sharing), Blogtv, Justin.tv, and Ustream (livecasting), Stickham, YourTrumanShow (episodic online video), Izimi and Pownce (media sharing), del.icio.us (bookmarking) and World of Warcraft (online gaming).”

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/29/the-definition-of-social-media

What does Social Media REALLY mean?

It means I need to log on to multiple websites to access the thoughts of friends and people I follow – Do i log on to Friendster, or create a Myspace account, are all my friends on FaceBook? Do I need to set up an event and invite participants or do i create a tweet, maybe an email or a doodle mail. Social Media means I need to block and ignore mindless applications. I need to turn on privacy settings and stop FaceBook from giving away my personal details to third parties. I’m bombarded every second by inane photos of attention seeking females and their self portraits. Pokes, Zombies, Mafia Wars, Surveys, Quizzes, Applications, the list goes on. Links, Status updates, Polls, Email, Messenger conversations – my eyes are all abuzz!

We are spending more time online than ever before, we are connected all the time. Wired. In the Matrix. When will we wake up? And is this the destiny of the human race?

I believe its time to take my head out of the proverbial “cloud”.

Time to go for a walk and enjoy the fresh air and the nature that surrounds us.