Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on America’s 60 Minutes last night. Apparently this is a popular show that a whole bunch of people in America watch. It’s presented by an old lady who pretends not to know anything about anything. I didn’t watch the programme myself but I did watch the bit about Mark Zuckerberg on the 60 Seconds web site. He’s a curious fellow with a nerdy demeanour which almost seems disingenuous. Anyway, take a look at the specific bit and come back to me when you have.
I’m 2 months late to this but the royal family have launched their own channel on YouTube, already bringing in almost twenty thousand subscribers and a million channel views. I’m impressed with the amount of content they have put up but a little dismayed that they have chosen to disable comments on the videos.
For anyone that doesn’t know about Digg, it’s a social news site where people can swarm around news posts and bump them up or down in popularity. Digg has around 20 million unique visitors every month, so although it isn’t on a par with Facebook’s 30m, it’s getting there.
It seems that it’s become the blueprint for a tonne of different sites that do a similar thing. Chictini is doing it for fashion and soon, using Fraxi it will be possible to create your own in a couple of clicks (apparently).
To call it funny would be generous but it’s worth a watch. There was a whole load of nonsense about this vid infringing someone’s copyright but that’s been sorted out now.
According to a report by Pew Internet, email just isn’t doing it for US teens these days. Girls are blogging more than boys and boys prefer to watch videos but despite all the virtual connected-ness these days, the land line and a good old face-to-face natter is still king of the communication channels for US youngsters.
Two-thirds of kids are prosumers (as Alvin Toffler would have said) and are making stuff i.e. web pages, videos, images, photos, blog posts, music.
