I’ve just found out that Google Mail is marking email from YouTube as spam. An oversight considering they’re both Google companies don’t you think? Maybe Google themselves are equally as tired of the crap spewing out from YouTube at the moment. I really think the quality of the user-generated content presented on sites like YouTube and FaceBook is a worrying sign for Web 2.0. Really, how much more can we take? People are deserting FaceBook like rats from a sinking ship, Pirates and Werewolves jumping with them. YouTube is awash with puerile drivel, up-skirt voyeurism and random toddler beatings before you even get to the comments.

It seems that the whole Web 2.0 social networking phenomenon has proved that maybe the general public aren’t always the best people to generate content. Maybe it’s time to consider quality over quantity again.

… and then there’s Web 3.0 to save the day; the semantic web. Maybe that can filter out the crap for us? Well, without being too crude, you know the old saying … ‘You can’t polish a turd’.

And an impressive article too.

I was fooled for oh, 2 seconds … I thought about why they would build this and then it hit me … it’s April 1st. No-one would or could ever build this application. I know Aviary have built some awesome apps and please let me have my invite to try them out but no-one could build something like this … yet.

Link.

Also, the URL of this image kinda gives it away.

Why don’t his glasses age?! Ay?!!

Very funny guys. Anymore web based April Fool japes out there today …hmm, let’s see.

Just when you thought the FlashMob craze had kind of died, two amazing Improv events come along practically back-to-back.

The ImprovEverywhere team are an arts/collective, happy anarchist’s group (I just made that up … good init?) who have performed over 70 missions since 2001. A further dig reveals the group used to create sketches for Comedy Central.

The Trafalgar Square ‘freeze’ was arranged by The London FlashMob group on FaceBook … the group still exists here.

The London FlashMob group are arranging a ‘Silent iPod Disco’ on Saturday the 21st June 2008 in Trafalgar Square. Should be interesting. To join their group on FaceBook, click here.