2005 (A Digital Decade, Part 6/10)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
This is Part 6 (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5) of a personal look back at the sites, tools, behaviors, platforms, and technologies that have changed my life in the past 10 years. Please add your own thoughts and memories in the comments.
In 2005 I became a power blog reader and I started watching the YouTubes.
Thinking back, it's hard to believe that YouTube has only been around since 2005. Now it's one of the most heavily trafficed sites on the entire web, and continues to undermine, threaten, and revolutionize, the entire TV media industry as we know it. It's become a critical distribution tool for anyone with video content to share, both brands and consumers alike. And back in 2005, the site introduced "viral video" to a whole new audience.
Boom Goes The Dynamite
Leeroy Jenkins
And one of the first, and arguably best, mash-up videos, Shining, which went on to spawn a never-ending fountain of hilarious movie trailer remixes.
One of the major beneficiaries of this new video distribution site ended up being Improv Everywhere. Charlie Todd, the founder, and his friends from the NYC comedy scene had been doing public stunts and performances since 2001, and had been smart enough to capture most of them on video. When YouTube came along they already had a bank of great content to share. After taking my first No Pants Subway Ride with them in January of that year (SAVE THE DATE - NO PANTS 2010 ON SUNDAY JAN 10), I joined them as a covert photographer on their next mission in March, Look Up More.
Back at my day job, we were working on a retail concept for Radioshack and Motorola. The idea was to be a technology store of the future, introducing the best of both companies, from home entertainment to mobile, to consumers all over the country. Needless to say, things didn't go so well for these two titans of yesteryear technology, and the retail concept never came to fruition. But, while I was working on it, I devoted myself to the tech blogosphere.
I started reading every major tech-related blog I could find, learned to use a blog reader, and would read almost everything they posted. Oddly enough, only a few of those blogs are still in my reader. I've found that I keep moving on to blog sources that are going to introduce me to something new, and away from the blogs that tend to regurgitate what everyone is talking about.
Reading so many blogs made me re-think my own web presence, and at the end of the year I started to work on a major redesign of this site.
In 2005 I became a power blog reader and I started watching the YouTubes.
Thinking back, it's hard to believe that YouTube has only been around since 2005. Now it's one of the most heavily trafficed sites on the entire web, and continues to undermine, threaten, and revolutionize, the entire TV media industry as we know it. It's become a critical distribution tool for anyone with video content to share, both brands and consumers alike. And back in 2005, the site introduced "viral video" to a whole new audience.
Boom Goes The Dynamite
Leeroy Jenkins
And one of the first, and arguably best, mash-up videos, Shining, which went on to spawn a never-ending fountain of hilarious movie trailer remixes.
One of the major beneficiaries of this new video distribution site ended up being Improv Everywhere. Charlie Todd, the founder, and his friends from the NYC comedy scene had been doing public stunts and performances since 2001, and had been smart enough to capture most of them on video. When YouTube came along they already had a bank of great content to share. After taking my first No Pants Subway Ride with them in January of that year (SAVE THE DATE - NO PANTS 2010 ON SUNDAY JAN 10), I joined them as a covert photographer on their next mission in March, Look Up More.
Back at my day job, we were working on a retail concept for Radioshack and Motorola. The idea was to be a technology store of the future, introducing the best of both companies, from home entertainment to mobile, to consumers all over the country. Needless to say, things didn't go so well for these two titans of yesteryear technology, and the retail concept never came to fruition. But, while I was working on it, I devoted myself to the tech blogosphere.
I started reading every major tech-related blog I could find, learned to use a blog reader, and would read almost everything they posted. Oddly enough, only a few of those blogs are still in my reader. I've found that I keep moving on to blog sources that are going to introduce me to something new, and away from the blogs that tend to regurgitate what everyone is talking about.
Reading so many blogs made me re-think my own web presence, and at the end of the year I started to work on a major redesign of this site.
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