Impressive how the product placements like Aston Martin/ BMW / Omega Watches in Bond movies, Courvoisier in Busta Rhymes video and other luxury goods have been replaced by websites and multimedia devices. There is much more to come, I believe in the future we will see a whole heap of social media, gambling and online services sites.

Are we ready for the digital revolution?

Fantastic initiative by SalsaBrighton and Sue Ghimire, supported by Aids Alliance to organise a Salsa (dance) charity night to fight HIV/AIDS. The event is taking place in Brighton Coalition and promises to be spectacular, with over 2,000 people turning up.

The team is looking for partners (if you would like to attend the event), sponsors, please contact Sue Ghimire on 01273 380596 or email sueghimire@gmail.com if you would like to be part of this fantastic event.

World Aids Day Salsa4 HIV AIDS 1 Dec 2009

No.2 Human Tetris (Japanese) 8+ million views

No.3 100 Fellows joke (Japanese) 61+ thousand views

No.3 Really funny pranks (Portuguese) 5+ million views

No.5 Bad jokes PART 1 (Japanese) 61+ thousand views

“We have removed your video entitled “I’m addicted to Twitter” uploaded at 1:39am October 17th, 2008. We did this because we learned that your video might include copyrighted material owned by a third party, such as a video clip or background audio.”

(Read the complete notice below)

Obviously I don’t have (exclusive) rights to use the background audio. I hold my hands up to it, although it clearly shows Facebook is now on to something . Removing homemade videos, is this the Microsoft influence or just advertisers looking for genuine User Generated Content ?

Compare that with YouTube who also actively remove videos infringing copyright, although only when they get too popular or someone actively complains about them. My video only has 137 views (absolutely tiny) and except from being silly and promoting Twitter doesn’t have much to it. Surely Twitter didn’t complain about it. So who did ? If no one complained then why remove the video and annoy users ?

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So I’m doing a short talk at Middlesex University London on Digital Future.

As the organisers put it to me, could you do a ‘Fun presentation on social networking sites, and the phenomenon and ongoing future/possibilities of them’. Now I’m thinking, I’m sure I can do a presentation on Social Networking in my sleep. But to make it fun, should I make the participants dance ? Weird ??

I remember going to a Flying Start NCGE presentation in Brighton and witnessed one of the most inspiring dances from Mike Southon, Business Speaker and Financial Times Columnist. He said to do business you should be able to laugh at yourself. .

So students at Middlesex university get ready to dance as part of the social networking phenomenon I’ll bring a selection of tunes to inspire you all !

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If you dislike playing BBC programs on iPlayer here is a way to play it straight from your real player. Now you can rewind, forward, etc all the content on your r player. It needs a little bit of guessing but it works like charms:

Step 1: Start Realplayer > Open Location

Step 2: Enter: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio_station_name/program_name.ra

Examples:

So say you want to hear Tim Westwood (Radio 1) the URL is rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/westwood.ra

Alan Titchmarsh (Radio 2): rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2_titchmarsh.ra

Panjabi Hit Squad (1xtra): rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/1xtra/panjabi.ra

How to guess the program_name ?

Its easy! go to BBC’s website and the program you want to hear and check their HEAR THE SHOW or LISTEN AGAIN’s URL. For instance Alan Titchmarsh’s HEAR THE SHOW URL is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_titchmarsh

hence the Real player URL is: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2_titchmarsh.ra

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Very interesting !