Category Archives: the internet

Social Collaboration for Filmmakers

Written by Mark. Posted on October 20, 2011. No comments.
Any social network is only as strong as the socializing it attracts, but the tools are here on Stage 32 for filmmakers to connect in meaningful ways -- not just in a contest.

How Facebook and Twitter Evolved in 2010 (via @digitalsurgeons)

Written by Peter. Posted on December 20, 2010. No comments.
Digital Surgeons examine the current status of Facebook and Twitter as we conclude 2010. What a year it has been! Thoughts to get your brain stirring: - I believe 88% of all people know about Facebook, but amazed Twitter is already at 87%. - It’s surprising only 40% of people on Facebook follow a brand. - It’s really surprising [...]

#TVittervision

Written by jewel. Posted on November 23, 2010. No comments.
Friends of Urgent (also formerly of Current TV), Chloe Sladden and Robin Sloan, are changing the way we watch television.  Fast Company came out with a juicy article today that features the pair as major players in the development of Twitter as the interactive platform for TV.  With the incorporation of Twitter in TV programming and [...]

SMO > SEO: Well Said @elowitz

Written by Peter. Posted on October 28, 2010. 1 Comment.
One of my first freelance gigs out of college was to write SEO-friendly articles for a company that sold Mexican auto insurance to Americans driving across the border. Yes, I was really desperate for cash and it was easy work for an english major. However, I hated that I was polluting the internet with absolute [...]

@Audiodraft crowdsources original music

Written by jewel. Posted on October 1, 2010. No comments.
AudioDraft is hopping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, leveraging a contest-model as a platform for helping musicians collaborate online.  Hailing from Finland, the founders of the company have developed a platform that allows businesses or individuals holding a composition-contest on their site.  They use open source technology as a way to help musicians collaborate online easily; [...]

Facebook Is The Most Visited Website

Written by Peter. Posted on September 10, 2010. No comments.
Mashable posted today that Facebook has surpassed Google as the most-visited place on the web with U.S. users spending 41.1 million minutes cruising the site in August (according to comScore). Though Google’s use in August is not far behind at 39.8 million minutes, Facebook still has a lot of room to grow. These stats reinforce [...]

YouTube introspective

Written by Kasia. Posted on May 29, 2010. No comments.
Remember LonelyGirl15? YouTube’s 5th birthday was last week and I’ve finally gotten around to watching the “YouTube Stories” series they produced– 2 minute interviews with select creators about their successes with the medium. The stories, and this interview with the director, contain interesting little insights about creating for YouTube that are worth checking out– What kinds [...]

A Monument In Time

Written by Nina. Posted on May 13, 2010. No comments.
I've never been as enthralled by a website as I am by "A Moment in Time," a virtual venture by The New York Times Lens that is equal parts photo series, interactive art gallery, and crowdsource experiment. Everyone will find something to love in this treasure trove [...]

5 Online Resources You NEED To Be Using

Written by Nina. Posted on May 11, 2010. No comments.
The following websites are a curated selection based on hours of web time spent in ways not quite as useful. In an evermore complicated internet landscape of blogs, vlogs, networks, and languages, these sites will actually simplify your life.  Amen. Check them out for yourself: 5. FreshDV A nice cross-section of expert opinions, tutorials, tech news, etc. 4. IndieGoGo A crowdfunding [...]

CreativeLIVE: Give FREE a Chance

Written by Nina. Posted on April 21, 2010. No comments.
Remember all those times you thought and/or said, "if art school wasn't so expensive, I would totally be the next (insert famous artist here)?" Well, you officially have no more excuses.

VOD: create your own Google Search Story

Written by Kasia. Posted on April 15, 2010. 4 Comments.
Google’s Search Stories campaign turned mundane search into a charming story telling device. You probably saw “Parisian Love” during the Super Bowl, and now you can create your own Search Story with a simple tool on Youtube. It’s a pretty cool interactive twist– see what you can do with it… Search Story Tutorial Parisian Love

Link Dump – Wednesday, March 31st

Written by admin. Posted on March 31, 2010. No comments.
Here are some interesting internet things which have captured our imaginations today: BrandKarma is an open forum to tell brands what you think of them. via PSFK Universal Music Group is attempting to give music pirates (read: everyone and their moms) the piracy-kills-babies guilt treatment. via AgencySpy NY Times dropped a phenomenally interesting story about the changing [...]

the new music videos: interview with isaac ravishankara

Written by Kasia. Posted on March 12, 2010. 2 Comments.
Isaac Ravishankara and I go way back to “film school,”* so it’s been exciting to watch his visually dynamic, often hilarious music videos popping up all over—most recently at the MTV VMAs. I caught up with him to chat about indie vs. big budget production, the DSLR “revolution,” and music video distribution models. You know, [...]

VOTD: nailing every tech entrepreneur cliché

Written by Kasia. Posted on March 9, 2010. No comments.
“You should follow me cuz I’m friends with Ashton” raps the New Dork, waving a copy of Fast Company with Ashton Kutcher on the cover (the same issue that floated around our old office for months). This viral Empire State of Mind parody nails pretty much every San Francisco tech entrepreneur cliché– it’s like bingo [...]

Pasta, a brew, and some Chat Roulette

Written by Brandon. Posted on February 27, 2010. No comments.
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m obsessed with CR.  Before we started Urgent Content, the Bonrz crew (@faketv, @henrygoldman, @bjstein, and yours truly @the_bg) were contemplating a potential dating site idea… We went so far as to review the thesis of and meet with the author of a major paper on online dating and then subject [...]

Hyper Local YouTube Stars

Written by Brandon. Posted on February 2, 2010. No comments.
As I stepped out of my home on Saturday to a beautiful day, I smiled at the USPS delivery lady who was approaching me with mail in hand.  My smile was topped by her shit eating grin, which was confounding, mail delivery people hadn’t been this nice since the 60’s. “You’re laughing at me, aren’t you?” [...]

Youtube Seeks to Emphasize Recommendations, Continuous Play

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on December 30, 2009. No comments.
Potential re-design of Youtube, from this NYTIMES article. Key quote: “Our average user spends 15 minutes a day on the site,” he said. “They spend about five hours in front of the television. People say, ‘YouTube is so big,’ but I really see that we have a ways to go.” To that end, Mr. Walk leads a team [...]

We Are ALL Digital Curators

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on December 28, 2009. No comments.
A List Apart has a fantastic recent post on The Content Strategist as Digital Curator, which I highly recommend checking it out. The writer,  Erin Scime has some excellent points on how companies with deep content libraries need to dig deep to find meaningful ways to repurpose the content in new forms. The post also [...]

Still Waiting For The Internet to Kill TV

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on December 17, 2009. No comments.
Ever since I got into new media, in the wild-west days of 2005, when the hottest story was Myspace being acquired by News Corp. and sites like MetaCafe and Veoh still thought they had a shot to usurp Youtube as the king of online video, people have been saying that the internet was on the [...]

I'll tell you one thing I like about Soulja Boy Tell'Em…

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on September 12, 2009. No comments.
….His whole entourage looks like they’re 12. Seen here.