What are we watching now

Talk about one world - what are we watching now. Youtube has rated what we most looked at during 2009. What we watch affects what others watch - the viral nature of media and our viewing habits is interesting. how many times did you watch Susan Boyle sing her dream song, and what did you make of the roller skating babies?

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-you-watched-and-searched-for-on.html

The loop between Facebook and Youtube

You can get on the loop that keeps you connected from YouTube to facebook and back. Web 2.0 social networking - keeping you in the loop!

See: Youtube blog
Friday 18 dec 09

More on copyright and creative commons - ImageStamper

Another tool to help support your claim to authorship - eg over images uploaded publicly to the web - but only on Flikr at the moment. You provide the URL of the image and ImageStamper records the date.
http://s1.imagestamper.com/login.jsp

Audioswap - getting over copyright issues

YouTube has a solution if you want copyright free audio with your movie on YouTube. It won't be as good as the original 'Mambo' music for example, but it will provide you with some sound, copyright free.

Ownership, IP and Facebook

Facebook is now not claiming ownership of your content on its site, today. Concern from users of the system has encouraged the managers to rethink the wording of their terms and conditions for users.

Writing terms and conditions is a nightmare, one for the lawyers, but it has to be a document written in plain language so the everyday user can understand what it really means. The terms and conditions have to be written by those who are intimately aware of how users engage with the system. And most of us don't read those documents properly, unfortunately, unless there is a problem.

One of the difficulties with social networking sites like these is that information provided by users is mostly interlinked with others' content. If I write a comment on your blog or your Facebook wall, who owns that comment - you or me? If I leave that community, can I take all my messages with me, not only on my wall, but should I  also be allowed to rip them off your wall? Or do you have rights over that content as it resides in your space? 

Copyright and IP law is a minefield. Facebook has reverted to the old rules until they work this one out.

Electronic music - iPhone ocarina

It is extraordinary where electronic music is now going. An iPhone made into musical instrument. At first I thought - what's the point - but it is the social networking aspect and the recording ability that astounds me when you think about it. You can play your ocarina on your iPhone and connect with other players and listeners across the world. Web 2.0 technologies put to interesting use.  And then you can start an orchestra, and link with other musicians in real time - face-to-face and/or at a distance. 

Information about the digital ocarina.

And today on the SMH you can see a video of the instrument .