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Parody: Friendster Remains Unearthed by Internet Archeologist [VIDEO]
The Onion’s hilarious Today Show-style parody, Today Now, has made us guffaw with instant Internet classics like the faux segment on how to stalk your kids using Facebook and Twitter. This time the social network in the limelight is social media’s long-lost Friendster community, which was recently sold to MOL Global.
In the satirical piece, the hosts are amazed by the morning discovery of the “perfectly preserved ruins of an online community called Friendster.” Internet Archeologist Dr. Maxwell Fry joins the show and describes his excavation project saying, “As soon as I entered the site, I knew I was the first human being to lay eyes on the those pages in many, many years.”
Dr. Fry then goes on to describe the rise and fall of the Friendster “civilization” that completely fell off the face of the earth in 2005. The portrayal of Friendster as a lost civilization reaches its comedic climax, however, when Dr. Fry theorizes that Friendster was ephemeral by nature. He suggests, “Others believe that Friendster was only meant to exist temporarily, to fill a void left by another mysterious civilization known as Awl or Ah-ool.”
Watch the scene below and make sure to take in each ironic comment and video overlay, as well as the ongoing jokes at the expense of Friendster, AOL, social media and early 2000s culture.
Reviews: Friendster
Tags: friendster, humor, parody, the onion, viral video
Mashable’s Holiday Gift Guide
The gifting season is nigh, and with about a week to go for holiday shoppers, the home-stretch can be grueling if you’re still crossing people off your list.
Out of ideas? Looking for a deal? Well, you’ve come to the right place. From Fail Whale T-shirts, to sleek iPhone cases, to digital gifts you can order the night before Christmas, these great gift guides will cover all of your tech and social media-minded loved ones.
10 Great Digital Gifts for Social Media Lovers
For that special someone who prefers digital toys over physical ones, check out these gift ideas which include music, movies, games, and more.
Mac Gift Guide: 10 Buying Ideas for Apple Fans
Shopping for someone who always has one eye on her Macbook and the other on her iPhone? Check out these gorgeous “Mac-cessories” that will delight any Apple connoisseur.
10 Unique Gifts You Can Make with Help from the Web
Craving a little creativity this year? This post covers ten super fun ways you can personalize your gifts online, including custom candies and unique cookbooks.
10 Gift Suggestion Sites for Hapless Holiday Shoppers
There’s one in every family – that person who is just impossible to shop for. If you’re short on ideas, just throw a bit of data into these suggestion sites, and you’ll be brimming with options in no time.
Twitter Gift Guide: 15 Ways to Shop for the Twitter Obsessed
If you can distract your favorite Twitter fiend from his smartphone for a few seconds, you might be able to give him one of these fabulous tweet-themed gifts, which he will then promptly tweet about.
The 10 Oddest Geek Products You’ll See Today
Let’s face it: Nerds can be hard to shop for. Make it easier with a few suggestions from this collection of geeky oddities that will blow the pocket protector off that “special” someone.
HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Deals This Holiday Season
Put down the coupons and fire up your Internet. Social media is the best way to find a bargain this holiday season. This post shows you how.
7 YouTube Holiday Shopper Videos That’ll Make You Glad You Bought Online
When you’re finally done cruising the web for holiday gifts, kick back, relax, and enjoy all the retail horror you missed while you were pointing and clicking your way through the season.
Do you have other great ideas on where our readers can find great gift ideas and discounts online? Share them in the comments below.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, sonurdongel
Reviews: Twitter, iStockphoto
Tags: gift, Gifts, Holiday, Holidays, List, Lists, online shopping, shopping
YouTube: Why Do We Watch?
YouTube this week released the most-viewed videos of 2009, with Susan Boyle topping the charts.
Also in the top five: David After Dentist, JK Wedding Entrance Dance, the New Moon Movie Trailer and Evian Roller Babies.
Is there a formula for these viral hits? A common thread? What differentiates a YouTube hit from a total flop?
That’s the topic of my CNN column this week.
Check out the column at CNN.com >>
[image credit: Spencer E Holtaway / Flickr]
Tags: cashmore, cnn, pete cashmore, youtube
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- Hometown:
- Buenos Aires
- Age:
- 26
- Organisation:
- Wormhole
- About Me:
- Recently graduated from Engineering School (UBA), I'm interested in entrepreneurship and technology. I'm the cofounder (together with Sally, Nacho and Maxi) of Wormhole, a software factory located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I'm currently trying to set up our latest project, Wizlive.net, a decentralized online tutoring community where everybody is invited to teach and learn, in real time with the right tools. Please don't hesitate to ask for more information if you feel interested.
- Website:
- http://www.wormhole.com.ar
- Favorite Social Entrepreneur:
- Nicholas Negroponte (Just to spark a conversation!!!)
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As in other aspects of life, once in a while we all want to look different. Well, that is the case of my space here on Futureshifters. I deleted my original account and set up this new one. I will be posting some intresting stuff, inviting peolple I met in GK3 and uploading photos...
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Year of English & Information Technology 2009 - Sri Lanka
Lunama Village is situated near the coastal plain 150 miles far to the down south from Colombo, The capital of Sri Lanka. The main carrier of this villagers are agriculture and fishing industry. DFOLRL [ District Foundation of Literacy at Rural Level ] organization had started and also that organization started an ICT center of that village in year 2005. Specially rural people can develop their IT knowledge and they can achieve communication facilities from this center as well as they can use Internet and E mail facilities from this. Not only that but also this center helped to develop agriculture and fishing industry. And also information services. Specially build up computer knowledge of this rural children. And also helped from IT technology for the people that doing some different different self employments.
Already rural children had represented to international examinations like e citizen ICDL. Now a days they are following their education with successfully by using computers.
Our organization had got some steps to develop the different government officers and many other parties through out the ICT subject in our district. This year has named as ICT and English language year, by the government. But now these children have a problem. That is they can’t get global knowledge directly because they haven’t good English knowledge.
All Children and youngers who connect with us is studying the English language as subject of their Schools. But they have less chances to use English. Because of that this children weren’t able to be clever in English.
But we try to use the English through the Village. Then we can develop the English knowledge of the people in our Village. and also we try to help them through information technology.
So we kindly ask upon from you please give your ideas and proposals to us, to develop this conditions.
01 The people who can spend their vacation in Sri Lanka and should have a ability to develop the English knowledge of our village children.
02 If you cant do like that you can discuss deferrent idea with our members in Virtual society and can improve their English knowelege by writing to a social Network.
03 If you are a manger of a Tele center you can connect your Tele center holders to our ICT Mini Campus virtual society and can exchange global knowledge.
04 About the online courses you know and that can introduce to our children
05 About the BPO Online jobs that can do by join in with you are center.
If you can help us from one above suggestions please write us. Your ideas will be very valuable for us to bright our children’s Future.
W.M.C.R.K Disanayaka,
D F O L R L Organization,
I C T Mini Campus Virtual Society
No, seriously, we've been working a lot. We founded a little company (www.wormholeit.com), we are now convincing a lot of people to help us to create wilearn, it not that easy!!
But we already developed the elearning platform so it's just a matter of time that we can launch the site.
What about you?
Cheeers !
Jamal
Estoy medio alejado del circuito, sumergido en hacer que wormhole empiece a rodar. No se imaginan lo complicado que es empezar un emprendimiento en Argentina, papeles, abogados, contadores. Pero ya estamos oficialmente establecidos e incluso preparando un piloto para una gran universidad en Buenos Aires. Para eso estamos trabajando a razon de 14 horas diarias!! Estamos "quemados"...
Bueno en que quedo nuestra red americana de emprendedores? Espero no haberme quedado afuera che!
Besos para todos !!!!!!
buena onda conocerte en KL. sos una buena persona. Recuerdas que te comenté acerca de IEEE? bueno te invito para que conozcas más de la organización que sé te puede dar muchos beneficios por una simbólica membresía. yo he tenido muchos años en IEEE y a como dijo el amigo colombiano es la organización técnica y profesiona más grande del mundo. En esta página podés ver las 39 sociedades técnicas diferentes que abarca, http://ieee.org/web/societies/home/index.html en la parte izquierda podes ver la sociedad de educación que estabas interesado. te dejo también este link para que veas lo que hacemos en toda latinoamérica http:www.ieee.org/r9sac
bueno, por otro lado, estoy conectado con varios centros de investigación, así que también pasame tu correo para enviarte más información que tengo para las escuelas en latinoamérica que puede ser útil para Argentina.
En lo que respecta a las fotos, yo he subido casi todas las mias en FACEBOOK. si tienes cuenta alli buscame si no avisame. hay otra gente igual de la confe que está allí.
espero que pases un feliz fin de año y que vengan más ideas y retos para 08!
éxitos con Wormhole!
saludos desde Nicaragua,
Mario
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