Digital Lifestyles

This video shows that the shark are not our enemy, sharks have actually been put at great risk in many parts of the world because their only enemy are the man. Many people have wrong assumption that the shark cartilage are best for cancer cure, this video is an attempt to save sharks from being slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands in the past several years. Last year, the film won the grand prize at the Toronto Film Festival for good reason, check here for trailer of this film on the Sharkwater website.

This Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony video shows clips from AP’s live coverage of the 08/08/08 games, I think this is possibly the most covered event on the web today. However no doubt any type of exclusive visual coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games would be viral during this sport event. The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony truly was a spectacular show, you may possibly won’t miss it to watch starting from the ceremony.

The interactive map from NY Times let you check out the medal counts by country for every Summer Games since the modern Olympic Games began in 1896, I think this is rare collection of Olympic games for visual representation.

The size of the bubbles varies in the geographic view correlated to the number of medals won. You can check the actual number of golds, silvers and bronzes won which are being displayed by just touching the bubble with your mouse. Dragging the tab through all the years reveals historical blips as well.

The GoViral discuss about the best content distribution network available, Jimmy Maymann, GoViral’s CEO talk how to get consumers attention online and how to activate your brand in the online media in modern media landscape. It’s quite a long video but it offers some good stuff for thought to understand. GoViral also published a book with its research “The Social Metropolis” which you can also downloaded as .pdf.

The Lost Tunes ( Universal UK’s new online store ) mainly focus on music collection of rare and very hard to find tracks. The site provide users “smart search” feature which help the music lovers to rediscover archive of their favorites including the new one. However they’ve too many catalogs items are facing licensing process, which are too complicated to permit release of some of the rare collection.

This animated spot spread message that a pen can be stronger than a sword, and pen have all the power to save the abused victims by using our own voices, and signatures. Created by INK, by TBWA ad agency, this initiative is the second monochromatic life-saving-signatures spot for Amnesty International. The first spot, Signatures, won a Cannes Gold Lion earlier this year.