Interesting. Didn’t expect this to happen so fast, but the space is moving quickly. Have to compete.
This clip has been making the rounds on the Internet, so odds are you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you should watch it, preferably in HD at Vimeo. At the very least, click the title of this post to see it full size.
The premise is simple: Matthew Harding took a trip to 42 countries to film short clips of him doing a silly dance, sometimes alone, sometimes with lots of local folks, often in beautiful locations. The result is this 4:28 video.
I’m proud to share the fact that this guy is from Connecticut. They don’t call us nutmeggers for nothing.
Update: The song is (called Praan) is available at Amazon’s MP3 store. The web site for the project is, appropriately, wherethehellismatt.com, where there are more videos and maps.
This is going to be the norm now for commerce sites, but eBay finally dropped the fees for use of their third-party commerce APIs. These are the things that allow third parties to create applications and tools that lead people into eBay or, say, Amazon. Amazon is the most commonly used API, I would think, as so many tools integrate calls to the API directly.
It will be interesting to see if non-commerce sites get into the API business in a big way. Not sure what they’d do, exactly, but I’m still curious. For example, what APIs could ESPN.com offer? Since revenue is made via advertising, mostly, those hits and impressions count.





