Friday, June 29, 2007

Yawnfest

It's another red hot Internet news story in The Los Angeles Times, if your idea of "red hot" is this recent stunner about the availability of mash-ups online: "Google Maps Meets YouTube."

Sigh . . .

Okay, here's a helpful guide for the next reporter, since obviously the LA Times is a little behind the times.

OUT:
LonelyGirl15
IN:
Hillary Clinton chatbot

OUT:
YouTube videos of David Hasselhoff smashed.
IN:
YouTube videos of John Stamos smashed.

OUT:
Online greeting cards.
IN:
Equally disposable widgets for social networking sites.

OUT:
Google tools
IN:
Google anonymizers

OUT:
Sony PS3
IN:
Homebrew games for old machines.

OUT:
BitTorrent
IN:
CCN

OUT:
File-sharing songs and photos with your friends.
IN:
File-sharing smells and textures with them.

OUT:
Easy hacks for Second Life
IN:
Easy hacks for voting machines

OUT:
DRM
IN:
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

OUT:
Yahoo maps
IN:
Photosynth

OUT:
Voice over IP
IN:
Mass text-messaging systems

But . . . yo . . . check out this kind of cool Brooklyn buzz mash-up, which shows the differences between bloggers and the mainstream media when it comes to where they focus upon in the built environment of a city or neighborhood.

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