Arcade Fire HTML5

Arcade Fire came out with a cool HTML 5 song/program that mixes their great music with an interactive story dealing with your life, your home. It's really quite ridiculous, I was obviously enthralled!

This is the website: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ (must be opened on Google Chrome) When you open it, it asks you for your address and off it goes! Enjoy listening to Arcade Fire while watching a story of a man running home.

To tell you the truth as awesome as I thought it was ... it was a little scary the levels of technology and just how its used it makes me feel like anything can be done... which is a little scary. I mean for the most part I really enjoyed it but the thought did cross my mind.

Its hard to explain. Just try it. It's great.

The Facebook Effect

Today...

We spoke about social networking and how it affects people and how we don't realize it sometimes. Great example: Facebook. The new Myspace. Way back when, Myspace was quite the rage, I mean even new movies coming out in theaters had Myspaces... well now, there's Facebook. In my opinion Facebook is much more user friendly, accessible, and stalkerish. I remember when I first switched to Facebook all I kept thinking was "wow, this is creepy stalkerish". You could see what I commented on So-and-so's picture, what I wrote on that person's wall, and many more other personal things you probably wouldn't want someone else to see.

When we looked up about the book The Facebook Effect and what it dealt with I realized that Facebook isn't just a social networking site anymore. It revolutionized into a new way for business to hire, a requirement even for a job overview. The Facebook Effect affects everyone with one, people are beginning to be judges on their profile pictures and info on Facebook rather than an interview a company would conduct. It's scary but true. I guess this is just a reminder... beware the Facebook effect.