Kudos to John McKinley and the LaunchBox Digital team. There are now eight new start-ups in the world all helped by this innovative local DC based set of services and incubator.
Click here to read all about these eight cool new start-ups. I am proud to help these folks in our community. They are doing the Lord’s work!
Check it out. Good work here. Click here to read their analysis.
Summer viewing - bone crushing - loud – ouch! Check this one out on SnagFilms.com. This is a fun film. See what kids will do to get their kicks and thrills. This is why we need universal health care! Click here to fire up this film.
Tomorrow – August 6th – is Andy Warhol’s birthday. He would have been 81 years old. He passed away in 1987 yet his influence is still around us in so many ways. I believe that Andy Warhol was our first modern multi-media artist. He painted. He made films and documentaries. He created magazines and was influential in music. He was a performance artist and he worked the media like no one’s business. He was central to pop art and culture during the 60′s and the 70′s.
He coined the term “in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame.”
Here is a good Wikipedia entry on Andy Warhol. Click here. I went to see some of his work at the Bellagio museum in Las Vegas during the NHL Awards week. His work has real whimsy and style.
If young adults and teenagers aren’t using Twitter – see this chart here - and Facebook is getting an older demographic then where are all of the teenagers going to communicate? My newsfeeds are filled with people even older than me on Facebook these days. Facebook is now for the “young at heart” I guess.
I was surprised to hear about MySpace and how it was actually getting younger now than Facebook in terms of demos but I think all of the teenagers are simply texting on their phones. My son and daughter both have Blackberries. It has become their laptop of choice in a way. They glance at their Facebook on their Blackberries. They use it as a phone. They read their email on it. They use AIM and they text all of the time.
What we saw happening in Europe has now blown up here. Kids use their mobile devices as PC’s. Kids use texting as instant messaging. That is the killer app now.