Fluid animation

'irregular flow' by Ozan Tekin from Istanbul via Vimeo


irregular flow from 4khz on Vimeo.

Video content Overlay, "it's just that simple!"

A wonderfully cheesey 70's style 'infomercial' pastiche from Overlay.TV via Stan Schroeder at Mashable!

Hear how to make money from adding links above video content. Overlay.TV currently have over 600 marketing affiliate deals including Amazon, iTunes and Wal-Mart.

Digital deception: Secrets, Lies and Privacy

via Richard Sambrook and David Brain and Ian Delaney, a thought provoking presentation from the Lift conference, given by Genevieve Bell, who works as an anthropologist at Intel.

Genevieve outlines typical behaviour in that we all tell between 6 and 200 lies a day ranging from low level social interaction to the more pathological and complex. The motivation for lies are examined and 'increasing popularity' accounts for about 10 percent. Women tell fewer but bigger lies then men.

Other topics also covered are:

• Quoting Volker Sommer, 'Self deception is a part of survival. We actively repress things we can not handle.' In simple terms what we choose to withhold is about keeping our information safe.

• Danah Boyd's research focuses on Facebook and MySpace users and has found out that "10 percent of MySpace users are over 100 years old" which stretches credibility somewhat.

• 'Twitter is about making art out of confabulation".
  

• Korean kids apparently value their mobiles being tracked via GPS by their parents.
  
  
• Cornell ran lie detection tests running on text messages and email. 'The bigger the lie the more words you use.

• 'Web 3.0 will be based on a bedrock of confabulation'.

Freddy Mini, CEO of Netvibes and Crunchies award winner

Chris Albrecht interviews Freddy Mini, CEO of Netvibes. Netvibes won the Crunchies' "Best international startup" Award.

Video from: blip.tv

Newspepper soft launch

Thanks to Mike Butcher at TechCrunchUK, for posting about the launch of Newspepper citizen journalism video sharing site with founder Hermione Way, sister of Ben Way, from Waysearch.

Second Chance Tuesday event focus on the future of online gaming



Interview with Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists on citizen journalism

Mike Butcher interviewed by Scoble

Video of Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK interviewed by Robert Scoble.

Mike tells Robert's mainly US audience how the UK and Europe tech scene is performing compared to the US.

Mobile 2.0 and location-based apps such as Jaiku get mentioned by Mike as being ahead of current offerings in the States.

Round-up of tech predictions for 2008

At this time of year there is no shortage of predictions what will happen in the tech industry over the coming 12 months.

From Bill Thompson's 'Cloudy visions of the future' on the BBC, to CNet's Top 5 tech predictions of 2008 to The Economist's 'Three fearless predictions' critiqued on Slashdot, it will be fascinating to see how tech developments evolve over the next year.

Also worth catching is John Battelle's view plus Mike Arrington on CrunchNotes pointing to Loren Feldman's thought provoking 2008 predictions.