This is the A2SM Link Post for December 21st:
- 2009 As Told In Google Wave – Love it or hate it, Google Wave is proving to be a great way for people to express themselves creatively in the form of videos. We’ve seen it with Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting. We’ve seen it with the Declaration of Independance. And now we have a 2009 year-in-review Google Wave video.
- MySpace Reaches Out To Upset Imeem Users: Your Playlists Will Soon Be Resurrected – In the two weeks since it acquired imeem in a firesale, MySpace has been met with waves of frustration from outraged users who blame the company for shutting down the troubled music service. MySpace didn’t really have anything to do with imeem’s sudden shutdown (it would have closed shop anyway), but most users don’t care — they just want their imeem playlists and free streaming music back. Today, MySpace is reaching out to these disgruntled imeem users to let them know that their playlists will soon be restored, brought back to life with free streams from MySpace Music
- Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally. -
- 5 Ways Social Media Changed Fashion in 2009 – It’s safe to say that the fashion industry has adopted social media as a marketing platform to reach their customers online and reignite brand passion and customer loyalty.
- The Year in Review Captured On a Google Wave [VIDEO] – From the same folks at Whirled Interactive who brought us the excellently funny “Pulp Wave Fiction” comes another intelligent use of Google Wave as a video production medium — this time it’s used to encapsulate the year in news and social media.
- Keep Up With Your Fave Random House Author on Your iPhone – This morning, Random House Publishing Group announced that it has collaborated with Mobile Roadie to launch a trio of free iPhone apps that will serve to hook up fans with three of their fave RH authors: Steve Barry [iTunes Link], Sophie Kinsella [iTunes Link] and Karen Marie Moning [iTunes Link].
- Seesmic for Android Adds Twitter Search, Lists and Trending Topics – Last month when popular Twitter client Seesmic launched an Android version, one of the few omissions we noted was support for Twitter search and trending topics. In a new 1.1 version update for Android users, Seesmic now includes Twitter search and trending capabilities as well as support for Twitter Lists.
- Youtu.be: Because YouTube Needs Its Own URL Shortener Too – Google subsidiary YouTube has joined the URL shortening bandwagon. It has just announced youtu.be, the official short link of the world’s largest video site.
