Good news: Flickr Geo Tagging Now Live.
Unfortunately, Flickr is a Yahoo! company, which means you don’t get the satellite image quality of Google…
Even though I like Yahoo! much more than Google, and I am already paying for the excellent services of flickr, I have to say this is really a drawback.
Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab writes about blockbuster films vs snowball effects caused by blogs. In particular, it’s about an article on the USA Today Website:
America’s noisy Web wags were dealt an even more sobering blow 10 days later when Snakes on a Plane opened nationwide to a decidedly flat $15.3 million box office. Before its premiere, Snakes had been the latest blogger darling, as swarms of online film geeks prematurely crowned it the summer’s big sleeper.
Umair now argues, that the film cannot be seen as a blockbuster, but rather that snowball effects are taking place and hence the real success is yet to come:
That implies that, unlike blockbusters, Snakes should earn larger returns going forward than in the past – it should make more and more money (per given unit of time/whatever, rather than less and less, as blockbusters generally do).
I don’t agree with that. The snowball effects of the blogs were a thing of the last couple of months. By the time the film hit the theatres, the blogosphere had already sufficiently promoted the film so that snowballing was over and the typical blockbuster characteristics come into play again. I don’t think we can assume any further snowballing by now.
And in response to the article in USA today: just how much effect did the author think blogs can cause? It’s ok if hundreds or even thousands blog about something and create a „hype“. But I think we all know that this does not mean, that everybody who reads the bloggers will automatically go see the movie (and pay for it).
The reason why the blogosphere is so „powerful“ when it comes to politicians and celebrities is, because in this particular case it is all about reputation.
A couple of times a year (well, the last time seems to have been in November 2005) Chris Anderson looks at the statistics of media usage, budgets, etc. all relevant to his topic of the long tail, and how the media landscape changes…
An interesting list about all 2.0 websites, tools, services etc. can be found at the „Sacred Cow Dung“: All Things Web 2.0 – „THE LIST“.
Nevermind not having heard of most sites/services even though I consider myself not completely ignorant, I also think this isn’t even complete. It is already very long, but some services are missing: For one, because this list covers, from what I could see, only US or at least english-language services. And I know of quite a few German examples, so it would be safe to assume that there is an abundance of new sites out there – let’s hope this isn’t bubble 2.0 as some already claim…
Now I am a bit late posting about this one, but I wanted it to be part of my web-log nevertheless. Agency.com hast been widely discussed in blogs in the last couple of days, because of a pitch-video the posted at YouTube instead of just sending it in:
And Coudal put up a very short response video, mainly because they are currently pitching for a competitor of subways.
Disregarding all the positive or negative chatter on the web about these two approaches, I think we will see a lot more of this kind of quarrel. In fact, many things that were written or vocal discusssions (at conferences, for example) will turn into video discussions, with platforms like YouTube feeding the viral long tail of the discussion.