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In the name of design I started my practical (home) exam in Mulitmedia-journalism a Tuesday morning in December. Inspired over the years by a number of slick and shining splash-screens, I knew that I wanted to design a cool hoover (vacuum cleaner) illustration. Our assignment was to design a website and fill with content for [...]

Joost is another online TV solution. It combines both software and content, with a dosage of advertising. In April I gave Joost beta my first try. I tried it on a relativly fast PC’s with more than enough bandwidth. But I was constantly disappointed with the CPU usage and bandwidth the program required. Their content [...]

The popular TV-show crime series CSI:NY from CBS will include an investigation in Second Life in its next awaited episode, that viewers can also participate in, TechCrunch reports. I find this is a very exciting new step in the social media world, as it truly does add interactivity into a prime time TV-series. As Hollywood, [...]

If you are into Web 2.0 applications, online desktops and online storage you might enjoy The Onion’s news coverage on the Internet Crash of 2007. Most people store data-online in some form or another, the most common examples are online email, webmail services like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. Although the likelihood of the entire [...]

The word “Prosumer” is a combination of the words producer and consumer. According to Duncan Riley of TechCrunch; Prosumer “perfectly describes the millions of participants in the Web 2.0 revolution.” – The Rise Of The Prosumer. Riley also links to the above YouTube video. This “Future of Media” video by Davide Casaleggio raises some very [...]

This is apparently the first feature film to be uploaded on YouTube. Though according to their countdown on FourEyedMonsters.com it will only be on YouTube for the next 53 days (until August 15th). The movie has already receievd a number of awards and is currently holding a 6.7/10 user-rating on IMDB. The Four Eyed Monsters [...]