A couple of weeks ago we released a new IMVironment which lets you listen to music from popular mp3 blogs while you’re chatting with your friends on Yahoo! Instant Messenger. As you encounter tracks that you like, you can save them as a playlist in the IMV and send your “remix” to your friend over IM so they can check it out.
Music blogs have become increasingly popular over the last year both for consumers and advertisers as “Fortune 500 companies are waking up to the fact that young hipsters are congregating on MP3 blogs”.
The theory goes that, “the people who troll for music on MP3 blogs tend to be tastemakers who wield considerable influence over their peers.” Why are these kids digging on music blogs so much? Well – you’ll have to try for yourself. Check out the IMV to start exploring music blogs for yourself. When you do – you’ll encounter a pretty amazing place where “BlogJs” like Aurgasm’s Paul Irish are working to “scout out music you've never heard and deliver only the finest."
The IMV is the latest chapter of a web music story we’ve been telling all year long. It's an initial foray into making the web music discovery process a truly social experience, something that you do together with a friend. If you use YIM, you can give it a spin by clicking on the IMVironment drop down next time you’re chatting with someone and selecting the “Honda Fit” IMV. Check it out and let us know what you think!
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The times they are a changing. This year the politics of fear go head to head with the audacity of hope. Democrats have come out in record numbers to vote in the presidential primaries and caucuses to date. The current Democratic front runner, Barack Obama, has inspired a new generation of young and independent voters. Both he and Hillary Clinton are promoting plans which would help create a more fair and equitable United States.
But the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton is very close. No matter what happens in Pennsylvania or any of the other remaining states, neither candidate will have clinched the nomination when all the voting is finished in June. The next presidential candidate will be determined by the remaining Democratic superdelegates.
No matter who is chosen, it will be a proud and groundbreaking moment for the United States. If a Democrat is elected, the next US president will be either a woman or a black man.
If you were a superdelegate, how would you vote? The Yahoo! Media Innovation Group has built an app called Be a Superdelegate, which runs on both Facebook and MySpace. It lets you cast your own superdelegate vote and show support for your presidential pick by putting a virtual campaign button on your Facebook or MySpace profile page. What’s especially fun about the Superdelegate app is that a vote you cast on MySpace will appear on Facebook and vice versa. Like the Texas prima-caucus, you can even vote twice – once on each network.
Earlier this month, MySpace went live with their application platform, which supports OpenSocial. Now we’re starting to see the emergence of cross platform social apps – a pretty cool development. Could it be that leading Internet companies large and small can work together and share content and data to make the Web a better place for everyone? Yes we can. Yes we can.
Be a Superdelegate today!
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William White, March 21st, 2008 on 4:34 pm
Superdelegates have enormous power in the 2008 US Presidential election. Voters have already cast millions of votes for the Democratic nominee, but neither candidate will have enough votes to win outright. It looks like a few hundred superdelegate votes will determine whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton faces off against John McCain in the US election later this year.
Be a Superdelegate is an app that runs on either Facebook or MySpace and lets you cast your own superdelegate vote. Follow the results of all superdelegate voting in real time on our interactive map and show support for your favorite candidate by displaying their badge on your profile page.
Don't let your candidate lose this all important superdelegate race! Add this app today and get your friends to vote too!
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Keep an eye out for Yahoos in San Diego this week -- at the O'Reilly ETech 2008 conference (March 3-6) and the adjacent Graphing Social Patterns West:The Business and Technology of Social Networking Platforms (March 3-4).
On Monday at 1:15pm, Ian Kennedy will introduce Yahoo!'s MyBlogLog API: A Social Network Lookup Service in San Diego Ballroom B. At 1:30pm, he'll join panelists from Google, FriendFeed, Six Apart, and mSpoke, to discuss Social Networks and the Need for Feeds.
Meantime, over at ETech, food-hacker and engineer Marc Powell will present a tutorial called Kitchen Hack Lab in Marina Ballroom E at 1:30pm.
On Tuesday at 11:50am, in Marina Ballroom D, Elizabeth Churchill, from Yahoo! Research, will give a talk titled Users, Socializers, and Producers: How Internet Technologies are Changing Our View of Ourselves.
Stay tuned for later in the week; we've got something mythic in the works.
The Yahoo! Developer Network is sponsoring both these events. You'll know us by our mugs at the GSP Monday morning coffee break, at ETech we'll be at Booth #9. Stop by and say hello if you're in town, otherwise, check in at the Yahoo! Developer Network theater for ongoing video highlights, interviews, and coverage from GSP and ETech.
Yahoo! Developer Network Mixer photo by Jeff Kubina (2006).
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Vibes is a social experiment tracking the flow of kindness across the world. Do you have a friend with the flu? A brother or sister with a big job interview tomorrow? Or do you just want to let someone know you're thinking of them?
Send them some good vibes, and watch in real time as people across the world share their kindness.
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Vibes is a Facebook app. You must be a logged in Facebook user to add the Vibes application. If you're already using Facebook, you can grab the app here.
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