A great video on the future of online and mobile culture along with five year forecasts for YouTube and Facebook. This hour long video may take an hour to watch, but it's well worth the time as it hits on everything from Flash to privacy.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Realizing Our Potential and Other First Impressions From Would Be Internet Powerhouses
Remember when Facebook first started? The homepage looked like the picture on the left and if you didn't type "the" before "facebook.com" you'd find yourself lost in cyberspace.
Why was the transition so seamless? When did we stop typing "the" and did anyone notice?
Or how about four short years ago when YouTube looked like this? We've come a long way. (If you're interested in seeing the way 20 other sites looked when they launched check out this great Telegraph collection here.)
Perhaps more important than memories of MS-DOS, floppy disks, and external hard drives though, is the fact that it's easy to forget the power we hold. It wasn't all that long ago when people never traveled much more than a few miles from where they were born. Letters were delivered via horseback and now we can send our words circling around the world with a few keystrokes.
It's miraculous and about as easy to forget as the days when we used to type "thefacebook.com."
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Labels: Facebook, Flashback, Internet, Our Potential, Social Media
