June 2008 Archives

Now Play It
This site has musicians teaching viewers how to play their most popular songs on the guitar via downloadable video.

MOMA - Eye on Europe
This microsite for one of MOMA's 2006 exhibitions is a(n extreme) lesson in what can be done digitally for special projects (world premieres?).

Spoon
This website makes me feel impossibly uncool, and I love it for that very reason.

YouTube, created in 2005, is a free video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips.  YouTube uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

Wikipedia, created in 2001, is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project.  Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.  Articles are written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world.  Wikipedia is one of the largest reference sites on the internet, with at least 684 million people visiting the site yearly.  It contains more than ten million articles in more than 250 languages (over two million in English alone). 

MySpace, launched in 2004, is the largest social networking website in the United States.  A free-access website, MySpace allows anyone aged 14 and over to create a personal profile.  Unlike other social networking sites, MySpace allows users to personalize their profiles by entering HTML into certain areas on their pages, thus displaying video or flash content instead of text.  Users may also customize the colors, backgrounds, and fonts on their profiles through the use of CSS (cascading style sheets).