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One of the more interesting, strange and funny websites I have managed to run into lately is YTMND. My choice for an alternative kind of Social Community!!
Whereas standard social community websites, such as MySpace, hand you with a platform onto which you can present yourself and connect with others expanding your friends network; YTMND actually allows you to create, present and share your own alternative views of the world, society and culture you live in.
YTMND is named after the line Sean Connery declares on "Finding Forrester": "You're the man now dog!" (don't ask me why), see another sample. Now, although most YTMNDs are meant to expose or reflect the more hollow and absurd aspects of pop culture, some are rather YTMNDers inside jokes.
Take a look at this "Luke uncovers the mask" YTMND. See, the whole thing stems from an idea that, using sound, image, and some text, users can communicate a point - political, cultural, social or plain funny to the general media. Check out these "is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?" or the "De Niro Captivates" YTMNDs.
YTMND introduces its users' "meme": units of cultural information meant to make culture transferable from one mind to another, such as tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs and fashions. I have recently posted an article about bemes: memes that are bloged. Within YTMND memes rely on inter-textuality, as one YTMND frequently makes a reference to another. Series of similar YTMNDs are referred to as "fads" (popular fads change frequently) and a list is maintained at the YTMND Wiki.
So what can you do there?
1. use your sense of humor to be a critic of your culture and society.
2. create new hosted webpages (Memes): a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated and/or tiled along with optional large zooming text and a looping sound file of any sort. See and grade other's memes.
3. pick up content for your web2.0 apps (communities, blogs etc).
try it - it's free!! Take a look at the "Worthwhile YTMNDs".
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A creative community of alive&kicking culture critics
One of the more interesting, strange and funny websites I have managed to run into lately is YTMND. My choice for an alternative kind of Social Community!!
Whereas standard social community websites, such as MySpace, hand you with a platform onto which you can present yourself and connect with others expanding your friends network; YTMND actually allows you to create, present and share your own alternative views of the world, society and culture you live in.
YTMND is named after the line Sean Connery declares on "Finding Forrester": "You're the man now dog!" (don't ask me why), see another sample. Now, although most YTMNDs are meant to expose or reflect the more hollow and absurd aspects of pop culture, some are rather YTMNDers inside jokes.
Take a look at this "Luke uncovers the mask" YTMND. See, the whole thing stems from an idea that, using sound, image, and some text, users can communicate a point - political, cultural, social or plain funny to the general media. Check out these "is Anna Nicole Smith still dead?" or the "De Niro Captivates" YTMNDs.
YTMND introduces its users' "meme": units of cultural information meant to make culture transferable from one mind to another, such as tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs and fashions. I have recently posted an article about bemes: memes that are bloged. Within YTMND memes rely on inter-textuality, as one YTMND frequently makes a reference to another. Series of similar YTMNDs are referred to as "fads" (popular fads change frequently) and a list is maintained at the YTMND Wiki.
So what can you do there?
1. use your sense of humor to be a critic of your culture and society.
2. create new hosted webpages (Memes): a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated and/or tiled along with optional large zooming text and a looping sound file of any sort. See and grade other's memes.
3. pick up content for your web2.0 apps (communities, blogs etc).
try it - it's free!! Take a look at the "Worthwhile YTMNDs".
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