digital media Archives - Page 16 of 18

Friendster’s Patent

by natecooper | Jul 14, 2006 | culture, digital media, nate, technology

Apparently Friendster owns the patent for social networking. I find this interesting as a former friendster and current myspace user. Should be interesting if Friendster issues licenses because it would effectively be a subsidy on their service by the bigger sites...

Grocery Lists Online

by natecooper | Jul 13, 2006 | digital media, humor, nate

Finally a way to just download grocery lists! Instead of having to write out what you need… just download and print ones that other people have made. Seriously though this is a little like post secret or engrish .. except without the cache of exoticism found in...

Good Viral Advertizing?

by natecooper | Jul 3, 2006 | culture, digital media, nate, television

Is waking up someone at midnight really a good way of advertizing for a tv network? Seems like you’d inflict more harm than good.

MySpace Diversity Coup

by natecooper | Jun 30, 2006 | culture, digital media, humor, nate, style

How did I miss out on this phenomenon? It’s ridiculously silly. Black Tom There’s even a chill song by him embedded in the profile. See Also: Puerto Rican Tom (If you don’t have MySpace you wont get...

Kill Your Teacher (This is a joke)

by natecooper | Jun 30, 2006 | culture, digital media, nate, technology

This article on legal action regarding AIM presents a real hard-case example of how digital technology and its uses are missinterpretted by a society that is slow to catch on. “… Aaron’s conduct was purely out-of-school conduct, the undisputed...

MySpace is Huge (in the US)

by natecooper | Jun 28, 2006 | culture, digital media, nate, technology

MySpace has a ridiculous amount of market-share for the U.S. market of Social Networking Sites I have an account with 5 of these top 10 social networking sights. I guess I’m a demographic finally. I visit YouTube and Flickr so frequently that I should have an...