This video from wired.com shows a museum
in Sacramento, California which is hosting a display of all the famous
costumes for science fiction films and TV series.
All I can say is, "Holy Cow its fascinating"
Sometimes its hard to get a sense of how much activity is occurring across the internet at any point in time.
This Internet Statistics counter gives you some awareness. Just let it run for 1-minute and then click
on the +1 week and +1 month links and you get staggering statistics. Now think of all the
business opportunities clocking up...
"We Live in Public"
This film reveals the effect the internet is having on our lives. It took 10 years to make and includes content from over 5000 hours of footage. View this trailer clip from Wired.com
In this video Frank Daly comments on the necessities for a successful life online:
Having an active life online used to be reserved for geeks however in the last few years,
the rapid development of social media, has meant that you don't have full life unless you're active on many
sites: including: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Wordpress, and the list goes on…
Recently my Facebook profile disappeared, and on further investigation I found that many people have run into this problem. As everyone knows, Facebook support is pretty poor if your problem doesn't fall into one of the help categories. There is a user forum and you can post your problem and hope that someone in Facebook support picks it up, but it could take long time.
Since Facebook is being used for business by many people, its time for them to introduce a professional support facility, where you can log a problem, get a ticket number and progress the issue until it is solved.
Until that happens, and it could be sometime (if ever) consider backing up your
Facebook data as described in this article: Facebook Backup
I got my Facebook profile back eventually after a week, but only after a number of communications with Facebook.
This article on Mashable discusses a marketing campaign called the Fun Theory and shows three viral videos made as part of that campaign, One of them is the Volkswagen Piano Stairs which is shown below.
The battle for the soul of Silicon Valley: its the technologists versus the business people. Read more
about the quiet revolution of the non-technologists (I guess you could call it the MBAs versus the PHDs)
on Fortune Brainstorm Tech
