With the launch of The Google Chrome Channel on YouTube, Google is going the viral video route to promote its Chrome web browser. (Sidebar: Can it be considered viral video since Google owns YouTube?)
The channel showcases 11 shorts from a variety of creative shops. Here’s one of my favorites:
Mike Rosen-Molina at MediaShift explores how charities are using social media as a tool for both outreach and fundraising.
John Paczkowski at All Things Digital shares his view of Vine, Microsoft’s new social networking service/”hyperlocal messaging and alert system.”
Noah Shachtman at Wired’s Danger Room takes a closer look at the U.S. Army’s push to interact with its audience via Twitter, even though access to the social networking tool is blocked on many Army bases.
The sheer volume of TV and radio news coverage devoted to the swine flu outbreak is being replicated on social networking sites such as Twitter.
As Mashable points out, the number of tweets about swine flu reached more than 10,000 per hour yesterday and are trending upwards again today.
Although the outbreak has yet to reach pandemic levels, Liz Halloran at NPR.org tells us that “researchers are ramping up plans to develop a vaccine designed, if needed, to contain a potential pandemic.”
Halloran’s article also reminds readers of the “flawed” vaccination attempt by the U.S. government during a 1976 swine flu outbreak. Here is a very scary swine flu Public Service Announcement from that same year.
Credit: Watch This Now.
Leena Rao at TechCrunch shows us how conversations, questions, and fears about swine flu have quickly traveled across the web via Twitter, Google, blogs, etc.
Jessica E. Vascellaro at The Wall Street Journal tells us that Facebook is expected to announce today that it’s opening its platform to developers via an open technology standard.
Loïc Le Meur at his blog shares his first spam message received via Twitter, and points out how simple it is for spammers to target Twitter accounts, along with possible solutions to filter spam.
Nat Ives at Advertising Age shares the details on a recent sponsorship deal for Us Weekly Magazine’s public Facebook profile.
Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch tells us about the partnership between Citysearch and MySpace, which has created MySpace Local.
Adam Ostrow at Mashable highlights recent changes underway at Ustream, a live video streaming service, including its own URL shortener for Twitter postings.
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