I’m at university. Ergo half of everything I have ever written ever has been copied and pasted from Wikipedia. Students don’t read any more, we surf, we google, we wiki-search we use Jstor we will do ANYTHING to avoid picking up a book. This has meant that such institutions as Encyclopedia Britannica have been taking [...]
YouTube Awards fail to impress
March 25th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · No Comments
Whilst Maggie and Dan have been extolling the virtues of the new breed of online video headed by Hulu, 4OD, BBC iPlayer et al I’ve been back to thinking about where online video all began: YouTube.
It appears as though this past week heralded the announcement of the winners for the second annual YouTube Awards. You [...]
The Interwebs; putting dog food ads in front of dog owners
March 10th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 3 Comments
Yup, these are pretty much the words of David Verklin, chief executive of Carat Americas, an ad agency in the Aegis Group. I’ve just been reading an article over at news.com (yes, yes, Murdoch is evil) which was very interesting. Apparently comScore has this week discovered that between the big 5 of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, [...]
You heard it from the ‘horsesmouth.co.uk’
February 26th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 1 Comment
…I’m sorry, i’m sorry, i’m sorry. That was a terrible pun. But, before you think i’m a complete chump and stop reading - don’t!
Horsesmouth has the potential for brilliance.
Horsesmouth.co.uk is a social media ‘mentoring’ site owned and run by The Horses Mouth Foundation and attempts to unite mentors with mentees. Sounds odd? Well, put it [...]
Jackass + Web 2.0 = Bragster
February 14th, 2008 by Matt Rebeiro · 3 Comments
Bragster is the latest must-use social networking site… Well, no, it isn’t. Allow me to explain what it is and then you might see why…
Bragster is a social networking site (based in London) that allows friends to make bets and dares with each other. However, these dares and bets aren’t for money, no siree, they’re [...]