It’s official, games are bigger business than music.  Well, it is if you look at retail revenues in the UK.  For the very first time, 2007 saw games earn more retail revenue than music, and it’s set to continue.  With the saturation of iPods stuffed onto every commuting train, how has this happened?

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Ever since Tim posted … This is really beautiful … I’ve been looking out for something to match or better him, and i think i might just have it. read full post »

This week everyone seems to be talking about Youtube and the alleged attempts by Pakistan to block the video hosting site (Source The Inquirer).

It’s easy to forget that Youtube content can be serious, there’s so many fluffy rabbit videos the serious stuff tends to get buried. But dig around in the tube archives and there are treasures to be found.

Here are my top four (crazy) science/technology based clips. Maybe you can suggest some more.

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Jeff Jarvis has written an interesting post writing off polls and listing a number of new ways to take the pulse of the nation during US election campaigning. They include:

• Google searches
• AdWords demand
• Mentions of candidates in blogs
• Textual analysis
• Web traffic
• Video traffic
• Microblogging traffic (Twitter)
• Social sites
• Prediction markets
• Bookmakers odds

There’s a strange battle raging on the internet at the moment and it’s all over a little piece of video. Okay, it does feature Tom Cruise and depending on your beliefs we’re watching a genius or a mad man.

The story goes… as fast as the clip gets posted ’someone’ is pulling it … already on and off YouTube more times than Mission Impossible sequels, it’s now started to appear on several other random sites. I have my own copy of course and I suggest you get it while you can (last seen on gawker.com).

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There are loads of new tools that make it easy for anyone to create really slick broadband storytelling experiences and share them online. The quality and sophistication of these was previously available only to those with expert knowledge and resources, like media owners. Now, sophisticated animation and custom video creations are within reach for non-experts. It’s the next chapter of an accelerating process of media democratisation that started with cheap digital cameras and photo-sharing, YouTube and blogging. The newer tools are significantly more impressive than RockYou-style Facebook and MySpace bling. Here are three examples:

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I love the way Seattle-based Common Craft use storytelling, paper cut-outs and child-like animation to simplify the complex and entertain. This is their first foray into online video advertising and was made for PRWeb - a company specialising in buzz marketing using blogs and social media.

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