Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Be Kind Rewind introduced the world to “Sweded” movies, and Sweded Tron takes the idea and runs with it.
With cardboarded lightcycles, fiery special effects, and fantastic close-ups, it’s a can’t miss.
(Also be sure to check out Be Kind Rewind’s YouTube channel for a fantastic collection of other Sweded flicks.)
(And for a bit of your own Tron action, check out Flash Tron.)
The Flip Video is to the camcorder what the Eee PC is to the laptop: A stripped down, easy to use, and surprisingly functional version of its big brother.
Sporting a VGA quality sensor (read: YouTube ready) and 2GB of built-in memory, there are no tapes or memory cards required, and it connects to your computer with a built-in USB arm.
One-touch recording and software that allows you to easily edit and share videos means that it’s designed to capture your day to day in a way that no camera has done before, and the size makes it easy to carry around with you wherever you go.
It’s time to Flip.
Motive Magazine has put together a fantastic top ten list of YouTube rally crash videos that show why keeping your car rubber side down isn’t always a possibility when things start to get crazy.
“My Name is Lisa” is a short film about the Alzheimer’s Disease.
It’s also the winner of Best Short Film in the 2007 YouTube awards, and for good reason. It’s a powerful and emotional (and sad) short about a daughter’s struggle to deal with her mother’s Alzheimer’s, and gives you a glimpse into the lives of those that live with conditions that most of us can’t even imagine.
Four Eyed Monsters is a film about “being alone in a city, wanting to be in a relationship but feeling there are no good ways to start a connection and then breaking out of a rut, jumping feet first into something deeper and crazier than either of [the filmmakers] expected”.
Four Eyed Monsters was also “the first feature length movie to be uploaded to YouTube in its entirety”.
Enjoy:
Two news vans arrived at the same local drag strip in El Paso, Texas at the same time to cover a death at the strip due to legal drag racing, and then proceeded to do the obvious thing: Race their fully loaded news vans against each other.
Thankfully, no one is getting fired because of this stunt (since I think it’s awesome) but “disciplinary” action will be taken.
Remember: If you’re going to race your news van against the rival’s news van, make sure you ask the crowd not to put the video up onto YouTube first.
[Via: Complex]
Socialthing! “is a digital life manager that puts what you do online into one place. See everything that’s going on with your friends in all the sites you use, post stuff to multiple places at once and more!”
Basically, it takes your online life and combines it into one easy to read, follow, and update page. Then, instead of checking each site individually to see new messages, updates, photos, etc., you can just check Socialthing! and see them all in one place. The goal is to make interacting across multiple sites as easy as interacting through just one.
Currently, Socialthing! supports del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Pownce, Twitter, Vimeo, and YouTube, with plans for more services as the company expands.
I’ve been beta testing the site for the past few days, and I think the service has some definite possibility. Unfortunately I ran into an issue with adding my Digg profile, but issues are to be expected with any beta release, and I’m sure they’ll have things running smoothly in no time. Everything else loaded without issue though, and I was impressed by the speed with which Socialthing! fetched my data.
Overall, I’d say it’s a useful tool that has the potential to become an indispensable one. Lifestreaming is quickly becoming more popular as everyone tries to manage their vast online world, and Socialthing! is one of the first sites out of the gate, which should give them a jump on adapting and changing to meet users needs with new features and functions.
They should be coming out of beta this weekend, so head on over and give it a try.
There’s Flickr and Dopplr, YouTube and DropSend; Zoho, Digg, YMail and Gmail; Facebook, Pandora, Mint and Twitter; and last but not least, there’s Last.fm, (oh, and don’t forget, Remember the Milk!)
They’ve all become a part of our daily online lives, but web based applications are a relatively new thing, which means they’re still vying for top spot on your bookmark list.
Thus, Carsonified set out to find out which are the most popular and successful web apps through a straw poll of over 3,000 votes from all over the world.
Which one made top spot?
Click through to find out:
Apparently the web world is fed up with PDFs, because alternatives are popping up left and right.
The latest entry into this world is iPaper, which aims to entirely replace the PDF.
The basic idea is that, like a YouTube video, iPaper documents can be embedded into any existing web page through a Flash widget, and can display PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other document formats without the need for separate readers.
Features include viewing documents without downloading any additional software, monetizing documents with integrated advertisements, social aspects with a built in share functionality, enhanced security, and easy integration.
Edit: Box.net, a free online storage and file sharing site, is one of the first sites to embrace the iPaper technology. You can now view any of your PDF, Word, Excel, or Power Point documents that you have stored on Box.net using iPaper.
Super Mario Fusion might be the best Mario to date.
Created by a fan, it will feature guest characters, widely varied worlds, and a completely new weapon system in addition to the standard Mario weapons (shell, fireball, etc.).
To quote the creator: “Think of this game as Mushroom Kingdom Hearts of sorts.”
Planed worlds include Sonic, Megaman, Castlevania, Halo, SHMUPS, Nintendo, and more, and each one will be unique.
For an idea of the end result, check out this video of the Halo level:
Very cool.
