Did you know that there are 31 billion searches on Google a month and 7 billion text messages are sent daily? Well, did you?

A survey of 16 to 24 year olds has found that 75% of them feel they “couldn’t live” without the internet.

Jokeyphone is basically “The YouTube of Jokes”, a video site that “allows users to tell jokes, pass them along, re-tell them using the webcam and teleprompter, and create their own joke channels.” The moment you land on the page, you are greeted by a random joke to watch and then the real fun begins.

The social web is all about communities…. users generating content, sharing content; where personal recommendation is king and where users get involved and actively create.

Music is pretty big business on the web, a lot of people like to listen to music while they work or study. The web has opened up our music tastes and collections (despite the fact that we still don’t have iTunes access in SA.)

Some very interesting facts and figures around our industry.

We have all heard the rumors of the new holographic cgi coming to the forefront.
Diesel have experimented and set the forefront of this cutting edge technology at their ‘Liquid Space’ Holographic Fashion Show. Forget the models kitted out in the latest Diesel attire, what really stole the show were the CGI characters.

Some of the most successful advertising campaigns in history have utilised the medium creatively to further enhance the message; the medium becomes the message.
Nintendo took the digital lead here by rearranging a YouTube page to launch a video for the game ‘Wario Land; Shake It’. The ’shaking’ causes the footage to ‘escape’ from the viewer [...]

Recently we’ve seen a few new offerings that focus on the audio component of video, most recently we mentioned GAudi the new audio search offering from Google Labs.

The Google Labs team continues to innovate and amaze, with the new GAudi service you’ll be able to search for audio clips from various channels of YouTube video