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Common Craft has put together yet another dead-simple video - this time creating an elegantly simple explanation of social media. "This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say." As we've come to expect, their visual storytelling with simple paper cut-outs and crystal-clear writing takes complex and ambiguous concepts and makes ...

Alright, so it's Friday, and not only that, it's the Friday before a much-needed three-day holiday weekend. With that in mind, it seems only appropriate to rock out. As such, I wanted to share the first single - Pork and Beans - off the new Weezer album. It sounds pretty awesome, and the group has put together an equally solid music video spoofing some of the most popular ...

I wrote yesterday on the Viget blog that ultimately, Hulu may struggle because it is too closed - NBC is too focused on Hulu as a destination, rather than maximizing the distribution of it's content. Today's announcement by YouTube for an expanded set of APIs takes the opposite approach - doing all that they can to provide more options for interacting with YouTube from anywhere you are. Fred Wilson ...

Explaining Twitter to someone unfamiliar with the addictive service can be a lesson in futility. Thankfully, Common Craft has a video that makes it possible for anyone to understand: Relatedly, I overheard at a recent event that Twitter was one person's "human-filtered best-of-the-web." I couldn't agree more.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Explaining Twitter", url: "http://www.socialmediaworx.com/2008/explaining-twitter/" });

Rudy Gay is taking crowd-sourcing to the NBA. The Memphis Grizzlies swingman has posted his request on the video sharing site You Tube, asking dunkers around the world to submit their best throw-down. Gay plans to emulate the best of those dunks at the contest. Kudos to Rudy for taking a fresh, creative approach to this year's contest.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Crowdsourcing Meets the NBA", url: "http://www.socialmediaworx.com/2008/crowdsourcing-meets-the-nba/" });

Video is on the rise: Online traffic to YouTube and other online video sites doubled last year compared with 2006, as almost half of adult online users say they visited such sites, according to a research report released Wednesday. According to a national phone survey done by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 48% of more than 1,300 Internet users surveyed between October and December 2007 said they visited ...

Where roadblocks exist, opportunities abound. See here, from the LA Times: Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web. At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses that, if successful, could create an alternative ...