Remember the 12 year old fashion blogger? It gets even better. Meet Capucine, the web 2.0 toddler sensation. She’s like a baby Audrey Tautou. Every time you’re in a bad mood just play one of her videos and you’ll feel much better. I love when she says crocodil. ADORABLE. Check out her blog and Flickr channel.
It’s amazing to think how kids today will be able to revisit their childhood via the web. This is the true born digital generation. Social media has given parents the ability to immortalize their kid’s life in multimedia and share it with the world. I wish I could tune in to videos of me as a kid on Vimeo or YouTube. When I have kids I’m definitely going to video, picture, record, 12second, Twitter, Flickr, blog and Facebook every minute of their lives.
Will you be a web 2.0 parent? Are you already a web 2.0 parent? If so, how do you use the web to show off your little one?
Thanks Jake for blogging about the French Girl on Zoomdoggle.
Posted on November 21, 2008 by Yianni Garcia in Applications
Are you bored of your Gmail? Now you can spice it up with themes. Just go to your Settings and click on the Themes tab. My favorite is Graffiti theme. The Summer Ocean theme changes with time based on your location. Other themes: Ninja, Candy, Tea House, Night Shade, Pebbles, Mountain.
Lily’s Restaurant is using 12seconds to post there daily lunch specials on Twitter. How cool is that! Follow them on Twitter and check out their delicious lunch creations in 12 seconds:
I’ve been meaning to check out Lily’s. Maybe they’ll hook me up with some of their delicious lunch special so I can share my thoughts on Yelp (hint hint). My friend Brian Simpson is their new assistant food and beverage director. Check out his blog, The Shaken and Stirred, for a view of the American bar scene. You can also follow him on Twitter.
Posted on November 6, 2008 by Yianni Garcia in Politics
My friend Eric Georgi called me this morning with an idea: Making a giant collage out of the front pages of every newspaper in the U.S. to honor Obama’s victory. I immediately joined the cause for finding the country’s newspapers. The New York Times was sold out everywhere in New York City and friends in Seattle, Chicago and Washington D.C. told me that the leading newspapers in their cities were sold out as well. Perhaps Obama’s win will mark a historic come back for print publications. We finally resorted to our massive Facebook network and asked friends in various states to mail us copies of their newspapers. I then started doing some research on newspapers around the world to see how international publications were portraying Barack Obama’s “historic victory”. Below are the front pages of 27 newspapers around the world the after U.S. election:
The picture of Barack Obama with a single tear was one of the most visible images in international newspapers. Interestingly, I couldn’t find any Russian newspapers with news about Obama on the front page. The Iranian Times carried the headline, “World hopes for a less arrogant America” next to a story about “US Failures” without any pictures of Obama. On the other hand, every single newspaper in Spain was Obamafied. The leading newspaper in Barcelona, Spain printed a full size picture of Martin Luther King.
From a design perspective, notice how the different newspapers visually depict the news and how they brand the United States.
SOURCE: The “Today’s Front Pages” section of The Newseum’s website, which features 714 front pages from 66 countries. The Newseum is a Washington D.C. interactive museum of news history.
