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media

Internet Party 2: The MySpace Intervention

The original Internet Party was a pretty funny video, but I'd say that the sequel is even tighter in its execution. Watch your favorite websites—almost scarily apt in their personification—tell MySpace that it's time to stop. The actress playing IMDB is especially brilliant.

UPDATE: Autoplaying video tossed after the jump. Sorry about that.

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11:55 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
28,454 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: "This one's from LiveJournal... oh, wait, it's just a picture of her cutting herself." That actually made me double over in laughter. more »

silver surfers

Jive is Hardware-Based System to Get Grandpa Social-Networking

I thought silver-surfers were one of the fastest rising 'netted sectors of society, but designer Ben Arent thinks there are technophobic grandparents who could do with a helping hand. His Jive system integrates hardware-based social networking gizmos with a simple router to make everything a bit simpler. The idea is that instead of using a mouse, you simply slot in a physical key to the "Betty" unit and it'll do the online status updating automatically for you. More »

11:00 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,222 views, 6 comments

Latest by tokiwartooth: @infmom: The key really is explaining that they're unlikely to fuck anything up. Once my older students (informal this-is-the-internets, this-is-the-google classes only) realised that, they were off. A 5 year old doesn't really care if it gets fucked up, or they're more »

zune update

Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features

The Zune 2.5 Spring update launches tomorrow, and with it comes purchasable TV shows and even more social networking functions. The big part is more tightly-integrated social stuff—like being able to see your friends' Zune cards inside of the Zune software instead of heading to your browser—the upside of which is automatically getting the full tracks that your friends have recently listened to if you're a Zune Pass subscriber. This takes up about 100 megs per friend card. There's also improvement in the player itself, like the return of auto playlists and the introduction of gapless playback. Wee! More »

11:28 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Jason Chen
17,654 views, 71 comments

Latest by quikboy: This is a great update. Much better than the last one. I hope the Fall update is just as good (maybe with Zune 3?) more »

radio

Olinda Radio Lets You Hear What Your Friends Are Listening to

Ever wondered what stations your friends are listening to just at the same moment as you spin the dial on your own radio? Well, that's where Olinda comes in: a working prototype commissioned by the BBC, it's got a plug-in module that lights up when your friends are online. A simple push of the corresponding button, and via Wi-Fi and the BBC's "playing now" service you get to listen along with your pal. There're other innovations too, including a double-tuning dial that lets you switch to stations alphabetically or just choose among your favorites. And because the design is modular it allows for expansion with other widget-like plug-in units. More »

9:37 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,276 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: Some of my friends have no taste in music. Now if they had a light that came on and let me push a button and force them to listen to what I'M listening to, that would be awesome! more »

playstation home

Sony's PlayStation Home Expands Beta This Summer, Goes Open Beta Fall 2008

PlayStation Home, the long-awaited PlayStation 3 social networking++ app, is finally going to see open beta starting Fall 2008. Before that, if you're one of the few lucky users chosen by Sony, you'll be able to participate in the closed beta expanding some time in Summer 2008. No other real features have been announced lately, but if it's still kept all the details announced back at GDC 2008, there's going to be customizable avatars, modifiable living and common spaces, accomplishment galleries and lots of branding/third-party products. It's basically a Second Life that doesn't suck, and isn't full of (as many) weirdos. More »

2:01 AM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Jason Chen
5,443 views, 24 comments

Latest by DJTripleRRR: @SnakePlissken: Wait ur one of the closed beta testers? I'm so excited for home! YAY more »

jukeboxes

Cellphone-controlled Jukeboxes Bring New Meaning to Drunk Dialing

Touch Tunes and LocaModa are linking up 30,000 Jukeboxes that can be controlled via cellphone, meaning you don't have to drunkenly stumble through hoards of people at a bar just to get some decent tunes. The juke boxes are all linked to media servers, that have the ability to export data into social networks such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. More »

7:40 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Adrian Covert
918 views, 5 comments

prototype

Postmachina's Project E Trades Business Cards, Personal Info Wirelessly

This wireless data exchange concept is very similar to a few designs we've seen already, but Postmachina is going to be manufacturing a wireless device called Project E that holds your personal information and swaps it when it comes into contact with another, similar device. In essence, it can hold all the info on your business card, plus other data (maybe even social networking information) and transfer it to other people you meet at trade shows or other events.

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1:15 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Jason Chen
2,683 views, 27 comments

Latest by The illest wind: @Jimbuck: Change takes things away, whether you like it or not. "Embracing the new" isn't exactly what you should be doing, however. Try to evaluate a new tool objectively, you might find it's superior functionality leaves you no option but to more »

software

Zune Social Gets Updates, Paste-able Profiles

The Zune Social, Zune's social networking site, just got a slight upgrade yesterday. Besides general stability and performance enhancements, there's navigation improvements that let you remove friends and view song and album information in send dialogues. The coolest thing is the Zune Gadgets page, which lets you embed a profile card (much like the Xbox Live gamercard) that shows the last few albums and artists you listend to. [ZuneInsider]

3:50 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Jason Chen
1,868 views, 10 comments

Facebook has announced that it is opening up its platform code to other social networking sites. Is this going to spell disaster for Google's unlaunched OpenSocial initiative?

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Everybody wants a piece. Microsoft just plopped down $240 million to keep Facebook afloat and score exclusive advertising. But that $240 million is actually small change—just 2% total share—since Facebook is now worth $15 billion. [valleywag and adage]

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social networking

Facebook Vs. MySpace is Apple Vs. Sony?

After word that Apple and Facebook may be teaming up for advanced services and distribution, now we hear that MySpace is partnering with Sony BMG. The agreement will include Sony sharing their IP like music videos, audio and other miscellaneous content with MySpace users through artists' MySpace pages. In return, MySpace will share advertising revenue with Sony. More »

10:23 AM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Mark Wilson
4,161 views, 14 comments

design concept

Project E Takes Twitter-like Idea Into Meatspace

Who needs Twitter when you have E, this electronic device that senses how you feel at any given moment, and communicates that to other people who buy into this electronic nervous system? Simply pick up E, gesture how you feel, and it lets everyone else in on your secret. On the right in the pic above is Exo, and it knows when you've entered the room, and if you pick it up and pet it, it tells your friends you're happy, and if you shake it, it tells your friends you're mad. There's also a variety of status icons you can choose by tilting it forward or backward. That's just the beginning of the system, though. More »

11:53 AM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Charlie White
1,760 views, 2 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: "Simply pick up E, gesture how you feel..." Can it sense when I'm flipping the bird at some ridiculous electronic excuse for semi-human semi-interaction? PS, Maybe I don't want other E users to have a record of my moods.. more »

a-space

A-Space, MySpace for Feds

What do the the United States' most classified, undercover agents need to do their job better? A little social networking. In order to better share information between various areas of U.S. intelligence, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is setting up a network called A-Space. More »

9:43 AM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Mark Wilson
3,221 views, 11 comments

cellphones

Panasonic's Pixi Phone Dock Automatically Sends Your Pictures to Mixi

When we're sending naked pictures of ourselves to people we've never met, we want the process to go as quick as possible. Industrial Facility and luckybite — two UK Design firms — know that, and have teamed up with Madori Kuroda, Panasonic Japan's Chief mobile device designer, to create a prototype phone dock called the Panasonic Pixi. More »

9:12 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By ybaranovsky
1,368 views, Comment

social networking

Bluetooth/Facebook Nodes Take Even More Human Interaction Out of Meeting People

Some scientists at Bath University in the UK have come up with an interesting albeit only marginally useful new way of making friends via Facebook. Rather than having to go through the process of, you know, meeting people and talking to them, it instead basically gathers the info of people who've been in the same place as you and tells you about it later. More »

3:00 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,715 views, 7 comments

facts+speculation

Amazon Invests in Demand-Based Pricing Digital Music Store

Amazon recently dumped an undisclosed amount of cash into AmieStreet.com, a start-up digital music store that throws in an element of social networking: track prices rise with their popularity. A song's price starts at nada, but as more people download it, the price tag balloons until it hits a 98 cent ceiling. The cool twist in the model is that the more popular a song gets after you recommend it, the more store credit you receive for being ahead of the crowd. More »

6:33 AM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,150 views, 8 comments

Latest by ninjamurf: How does this violate supply and demand? If we look at it with supply being basically "infinite" we can eliminate it from the pricing question. Supply is not changing so it doesn't effect the dynamic. So if more »

cellphones

Be Your Own Wireless Provider With Sonopia

Sonopia's idea is simple. They let you, Joe One-Pack, create your own wireless provider customized to your own liking. Then, with this provider (which is free, and you don't even need to sign up to use yourself) you can get your friends, family and coworkers to join up and pay you monthly fees for wireless coverage. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Apr 3 2007
By Jason Chen
3,517 views, 9 comments

robots

Echo Robot Teddy Bear Meets Women for You


Nothing helps you make a connection with a lovely lady better than carrying around a teddy bear in public. Especially a Bluetooth programmable, social networking robot teddy bear. Echo Robots allow you to program your interests and when in contact with other Echo robots, they "play" with one another to determine if their owners have similar interests or could be a potential love match. More »

10:47 AM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
1,119 views, 22 comments

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