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Internet Event of the Year: 2009
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Texting twitter and mobile internet are two different things.
And mobile internet hasn't yet caught on to the large majority of people.
That'll be next year.
Hulu isn't available outside of the US. And not only that but it was launched two years ago. And it's not even close to being popular or groundbreaking enough to count.
And mobile internet has been around for years. Even if you want to differentiate between some watered down cellphone browser and the full-blown super internet then phones have still had the latter for ages.
Neither come close to internet event of 2009.
Yeah this isn't even close to being true for most places, and I would argue even for America. Governments have more control than you think. Not only that, but service providers might not give a fuck about what the government wants, but they always give even less of a fuck what their customers want. Because the customers aren't holding all the rights and distribution contracts for them to stay in business.
Yes it will. It's a big deal. No where else can you get that direct of an interaction with celebrities, companies, or anyone else. It IS a huge website, and it grows every day. The fact that it shows up on fucking ESPN is proof right there.
It's definitely interesting to enough people to be around for a looooong time. At the very least, it'll be the catalyst for alot more like it.
And social networks like Myspace and Facebook have been around for years. So I don't think Social Networking on it's own is really the event of the year.
Cuba getting Internet (some people, kinda) is pretty amazing to me. Small in scale, but I think it says a lot about the force of free speech.
Moble web is cool, but I think other nations have been on that for a long time. It blew up in the US, but is it really any bigger in Japan or Europe than it was last year? I was under the impression they were cell surfing while I was on dial-up.
I dunno, maybe that Google still hasn't put in banner ads?
Oh wait I got another!
[analogy] Was WWII any less significant because there was already a WWI? [/analogy] :P
I am of course joking, but I do still cast my vote for (the boom of)Social Networking.
edit- Wait, are those analogies, statements, or questions? :P
same with hulu / "tv on the internets."
I'd say the activity surrounding the iran elections was the event of the year. not just twitter, but cyber-everything was involved.
And facebook will probably not be around in a few years, neither will twitter.
Google Wave was a flop.
I'd say the iran elections pretty much defined 2009 as the internet event of the year.
edit- Oh gee, a wonderful ToTP.
All I ever hear about is it's for blocking child pornography and protecting families. Are you saying children look up child pornography?? The message they're trying to send is so confused that even the Family First muppets can't get their story straight.
WoW was made exempt from classification and the filter will only block single web pages not web sites.
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Didn't really turn out so well for them, but I don't care who you are, it was a step in the right direction.
i'm tempted to say call of duty:4:2, if only because the online component is largely what propelled it to become the biggest entertainment release ever
Uh. The twilight movie made more money than Call of Duty.
It's definitely not CoD. Or any video game this year. Sorry.
okay boss
but twilight 2 made in three weeks what mw2 made in five days
edit: it's irrelevant. the point is that online console games have picked up in popularity to massive degrees, so much so that they are a hugely, demonstrably mainstream form of media. so, uh, don't be sorry. that's my pick.
The twilight movie made more money than all but 5 other movies released this year. It's a ridiculous comparison.
You claimed it was the largest entertainment release ever, which is simply incorrect.
Given that this thread is about the largest internet event of the year (Of which neither Call of Duty nor either Twilight movie are) it's also rather pointless.
Whereas DNF was the longest lived piece of vaporware in history. Twelve years. It was announced BEFORE Clinton's sex speech.... I still think the big thing is Delve is Goons. Since it doesn't seem like ACTA* is going to drop this year.
*America's conspiracy to make everyone else enact the DMCA.
pretty important
It's the largest entertainment release ever in terms of money made, it's not quite there yet in units sold. It's current beat by some harry potter book or some crap. But that won't last long.
what the fuck is this from
some kind of parrot dancing competition
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Yeah this.
Rage Against The Machine; Killing In The Name for xmas number 1 over the latest X-Factor song.
If you'd have told me this would be the case this time last year I'd have asked what you were smoking.
I've been away from the UK for three years and I'm about to move back.
Holy shit, tell me more.
A Facebook group (link here) snowballed to 1,000,000+ members.
Over £90,000 got donated directly to shelter http://www.justgiving.com/ratm4xmas.
Killing In The Name sold over 500,000 copies beating the X Factor by 50,000 copies (also thanks to some heavy snow preventing CD sales) becoming the biggest-selling UK download single and only download-only number in the UK for Xmas!
Became a bit interesting in the papers and media leading up to the chart (there was actually a good, old-fasioned chart battle for once!) and due to the support Rage are going to do a great big free gig sometime in 2010!
Here's the BBC's take on the result;
Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts
Edit: Personally, I contributed 13 downloads to that total on my todd!! :P
I'd seen a couple of UK friends on facebook sign up to the group in the run-up to xmas but I had no idea it actually got there. Just awesome.
No it isn't! Movies have made faaar more money. Plus, Modern Warfare won't have a lasting effect on anything internet related. Or even video game related honestly. At best you could argue that the lack of dedicated servers heralds a new trend, though we're all hoping it doesn't. Plus, the vast majority of those players are on the Xbox and most of them don't even know what a dedicated server is.
Also, this is one of those times that quoting Wikipedia isn't working out. You have a better source for that?
Also, World of Warcraft has over 10 million subscribed accounts. Isn't that the world's largest "digital army"? http://www.wow.com/2008/12/23/world-of-warcraft-hits-11-5-million-subscribers/
the irony of the whole thing is sony and simon cowell won out anyway
considering the aim of the venture was to 'rage against the machine' i don't think it was particularly well thought out
argh cmon. how many times do people have to go over this? the goal of the whole thing was not to deny anyone money. heck, it was the exact opposite. it was about taste, sending a message to both the record labels and to the rest of the country that x-factor prefab pop does not represent the entire nations likes.
everyone thinks they're some kind of internet detective when they find out that both competing singles wound up giving money to the same company and everyone has known that already since the start of the entire facebook group.
So, uh, machine successfully raged.
edit: beat'd
no because even though bmg is the parent of everything here they don't directly get the money. plus, all the rage against the machine members said from the start they'd give the proceeds to charity, so they got even less from that single.
if it was about taste the internet should have rallied around new, inspiring independant talent rather than cliched 'alternative' dogma that's almost twenty years old and can only these days represent the appropriation of rebellious philosophy by commercialism*
i mean, yeah, it was a good example of social networking enacting real change, but the way it played out was so predictable that it made me cringe.
* which, as it turns out, is exactly what happened with the facebook group
They would have given their proceeds to charity. The record company's profits aren't theirs to give.
as far as i remember they simply said that and some rep from epic said they would chip in too, so they didn't look like some heartless assholes. i dunno, you're probably right that no-one lost money on it but it's not like sony planned the whole thing, or they were the only ones to profit.