4.17.2008

New ways of storytelling

Pinguin Books started a new online initiative through which consumers can enjoy six different novels in cooperation with Google maps. Eventhough this an example from the publishing industry, it is a very interesting example of using the power of the internet to tell stories in new ways.

So check this link for the article:
http://www.springwise.com/media_publishing/storytelling_with_google_maps/

or go to :
http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/

2.14.2008

Explicit content

8 Dutch teenagers are arrested for molestation of a 12 year old teenager. They are arrested because they filmed the incident and put it on YouTube.
This is probably not the only incident but shows how young people use video these days. I think this is not a form of self expression but tough behaviour of young kids who think the internet is a free world without any restrictions.

1.02.2008

Tips from Warschau

Apparently there are some people that save their email for a month and then start replying to it ;-)
Anyway these websites are not from Polland but maybe they are interesting anyway.

Break
Break is a online entertainment destination for guys with over 18,000,000 unique viewers and 500,000,000 page impressions per month. Mainly men between 15 - 35 visit the U.S. site. Like the name suggests the videos are mainly videos of people falling and breaking stuff and accidents. In consensus with the generation cash trend, you get paid on Break for uploading your video.

Outloud
Although this is a Dutch / Amsterdam iniative I didn't know this site yet. Outloud TV takes video sharing one step further by adding a direct link between Internet and TV. Videos uploaded to Outloud are transferred to broadcast TV, street screens, festivals, schools, and cultural venues such as museums, galleries clubs and more.

Piczo
Piczo empowers teens worldwide to creatively express themselves, build personal communities, and share ideas and experiences with their friends in a safe online environment. Since its launch less than three years ago, Piczo has grown to roughly 12 million monthly unique visitors and over a billion monthly page views solely through the viral efforts of loyal members. I think it is a very nice site. They are based in the US but are spreading out in Europe starting in Hamburg en London.