My nominee for “Fun Web Service of The Year” is Smirk. With a web cam and a few clicks of the mouse, users can create video icons that reflect up to nine different ‘moods’. Users can embed the video icons most anywhere on the web — their social network pages, websites and blogs. Whenever a user changes their ‘mood’, their icon is changed to reflect the new ‘mood’ on the various sites where the Smirk is embedded.
There’s a number of significant, but less obvious potential applications for Smirk. The boys at Particle Programmatica (Crush3r, p0pulist) are behind the new offering. I, for one, will be interested to see how the product ramps and develops.
Chicago . . . wow! The Chi might be putting out the freshest underground music, artists & producers in the nation right now. Kid Sister has been making noise for 2 years or so. Her previous highlight had been being anointed ‘the Next 100′ with a cover story for URB magazine in 2006 (along with her brother’sDJ group Flosstradamus). Her act and her star has been rising, but much of the online media on her was inhibiting her growth. It didn’t really capture the essence of what’s so electric about her performances and music. Well . . .
Her new Pro Nails video kills it. She won’t be underground for much longer. Stay around long enough to catch the vamp in the last :45 seconds of the video. For those unfamiliar with Chicago’s Juke Scene, it’s a hot little glimpse.
My man Mo. Billionaire sure knows how to pick ‘em. A few years ago, I was booking an after party to Memphis in May and wanted to do a big multi-DJ night. He went on and on about this DJ-duo out of Chicago that he promised would be stars. That duo was none other thanFlosstradamus and no sooner than 1 year after my party, URB anointed them “The Next 100” with a cover story.
If you’ve ever read this site, then you know that we like technology and love James Brown. What to do when a little viral gem comes along that combines the two?
This is a little sketch, but let me know you think
As you recall, we thought it was pretty funny / hypocritical that Southwest Airlines (with it’s television commercials of flight attendants in hot pants and all) decided to eject Kyla Ebbert over her hemline.
Well, seems that Southwest has decided to change its tune! SWA President Colleen Barrett apologized.
Wrapping Up the Skirt Issue
Colleen Barrett - President
Today, 08:38 PM
Rumor has it that this blog has been kind of busy with comments lately. Seriously, I know that many of you have posted some pretty passionate comments on the subject of Kyla Ebberts and “traveling attire” in general, and we have been listening. I thank each of you for sharing your thoughts, and I want you to know that we haven’t been skirting the issue.
This situation involved a judgment call for sure. These situations are subjective, and not everyone holds the same opinions. We serve more than 96 million Customers a year; and every now and then, we’ll have a situation that takes on a life of its own. This was the case here.
We always want to apologize if we offend any of our Customers, and we also support our Employees abilities to make decisions. We are apologizing to Kyla, in typical Southwest style.
Many, many of you on both sides of this issue have asked about a dress code. We do have a dress code for our Employees who use their travel benefits, but we do not have a dress code for our paying Customers. Our job is not to be the fashion police; our job is to take care of our Customers and ensure they have a safe flight.
We are proud of our past that included hot pants and we are proud of our future, and I want all of you to be part of that future.
FlightAware, the leading provider of web services for the aviation industry released, ‘Squawks’ on Thursday. Squawks is a digg-ish service enabling the sharing of all things aviation — news, stories, pictures and videos. Users determine what stories are important.
Since Flight Aware’s founder, Daniel Baker, is a perennial ‘one of my favorite people’ award winner, we thought we should pass along the news.
The chorus of Dude N Nem’s Watch My Feet is a speedy 150 BPM track (that’s beats per minute) breaking down to a traditional hip-hop tempo of 75 BPM during the verse. The verdict is still out on whether it will be a huge hit, but the song symbolizes something significant. A ghetto feel, no bling, no violence, no girls in bikinis – Watch My Feet is a clarion example of where hip-hop is headed — Faster and more fun.
We talked about the Soulja Boy phenomena a few weeks ago in the weeked RAP up — I mentioned that Soulja Boy danced more than any #1 selling rapper has since MC Hammer. For everything that Soulja Boy is not, he made a #1 hit out of the underground jookin, buckin, clown and battle dance resurgence in hip hop.
For the first time in the history of college football, a ranked Division 1-A team, #5 Michigan lost to a Division 1-AA school, Appalachian State. Widely considered to be a contender for the National Championship, (prior to tonight’s loss) Michigan actually paid Appalachian State $400,000 to come to Ann Arbor and hand them the most embarrassing loss in the history of college football.
The game was considered so lopsided that Vegas odds makers would not even take bets on Appalachian State. That Appalachian State would loose was considered a forgone conclusion and absolute certainty.
Underdogs rejoice!
How, you ask, could a tiny Division 1-AA school beat Michigan? Well, because they’re HOT, HOT, HOT! (the video is essential)
what do you think