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flippin' flipboard

An app that turns the content from your social graph into a customized magazine-like experience. All the interesting stuff your friends share, presented in a single, slick, user-friendly experience for your iPad.

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twitter for real

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happy birthday youtube

YouTube is 5 years old. Here is a compilation of the 20 oldest clips on the site. Seems to me the two Chinese guys (The Back Dorm Boys, or whatever they were called) singing "I Want it That Way" raised the bar.

everything you need to know about chatroulette

... without any of the masturbating men you don't want to know about.

buzz at eleven

My take on Buzz so far? *yawn*

But we'll see. In the meantime, if Google hasn't turned you on yet, you missed the announcement or haven't yet grown tired of the knee-jerky blog posts alternately slamming it as lame or presenting it as a social media game changer, this here is Google's official demo clip that shows how the thang works.

six years in the book of face

All y'all probably know Facebook turned six last week. This handy dandy infographic from Mashable captures all the fun and funky stats about the site. It's pretty much illegible as an embed but you can click to Mashable and get to the full size image for the deets.

the mythical united states of facebook

Click through to the PSFK post for details, but in a nutshell a former Apple engineer digs through the friend networks associated with 210 million Facebook profiles and discovers some trends by region. Interesting stuff.

arrr ohhhh eye

Nice Socialnomics promo video highlighting (mostly well known but interesting nonetheless) social media success stories and ROI cases.

sweethearts + twitter = tweethearts

Sweethearts might be the original micro-messager, doling out lovey-dovey phrases short enough to fit on one of their pastel-colored, chalky-tasting candy hearts. This year, the company adds "Tweet Me" to their repertoire of little love notes.

It's nice to see that even a company that has been around for a century and a half can find inspiration in, erm, @gremanda.

blogging barbie

This struck me as vaguely ridiculous...

2009 twitter trends

Interesting stuff - the top trending topics by category for all of 2009.

decisions @decisions #decisions

twits

mother of all funk chords

Mashup artist Kutiman remixes YouTube - take a batch of unrelated videos of people playing music, cut 'em together and this is what you get. All audio is the actual sound from the videos - pretty friggin' amazing.

More on YouTube or Kutiman's site: http://www.thruyou.com.

Filed under: music social media video

on digital storytelling

Nice presentation by Christine W Huang looks at storytelling in the age of Web 2.0. Well done with some nice examples and thought starters (even though I suspect it would benefit from a voiceover.)

we're all in this together

The 2009 update to MadV's 2007 collaborative video experiment in honor of Guy Fawkes Day. Awesome...

The original video from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/user/MadV#p/u/5/Z-BzXpOch-E

the internet according to @gapingvoid

'Nuff said.

the social presence of the top 15 brands

Interesting analysis of the social media presence of Interbrand's top 15 global brands.

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