A documentary film by tinro|media works
Welcome to Cyber Sapiens - a documentary film about social networking in the digital age. Social behavior is as primal as human kind, and social media is as ancient as the first cave paintings dating back some 32,000 years. Today’s blogs, vlogs, podcasts, SMSs and micro-blogs are the contemporary, technologically hyper-ed, digitally induced version of those first communicative accounts from the dawn of civilization. The film explores themes of human connectivity and social networking in the Internet age and looks at how recent social media phenomena and social networking trends have been reshaping our culture, life and language. Production Trailer, work-in-progress by tinro|media works. Additional excerpts can be viewed on the film's profile site on MySpace and on YouTube.
Gary Vaynerchuk shares his passion for wine, people, web 2.0 and business during the filming of Wine Library TV Episode #624 - Pinot Noir Blind Tasting. Episode and interview excerpts were filmed at the WLTV studio.
During LeWeb08 I sat for a brief chat with Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook. In the following two clips, he discusses Facebook’s vision of an open social web and ‘friending’ a la Facebook:
Creative Commons Chairman Joi Ito on copyright issues and the emergence of Creative Commons standards regarding content sharing and remixing on the web:
TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington on TechCrunch and tech journalism:
Just met renowned author Paulo Coelho at LeWeb 08 in Paris, where he discussed his writing, and sharing and remixing his creative work online with Cathy Brooks and Loic LeMeur. His latest collaborative projects The Experimental Witch Project is posted on MySpace, as is this inspirational message from him to Cyber Sapiens:
A clip from an interview with Dr. Helen Fisher, Researcher of Biological Anthropology at Rutgers University and author of Why Him? Why Her?, following her LeWeb08 talk titled Lust, Romance, Attachment: The Drive to Love:
This year’s theme is Love. Rutgers’ researcher and member of its member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Helen Fisher, spoke about Why We Love, and later in an interview said that the human brain has not changed and that the Internet has not changed our primary human emotional capabilities of falling in love in the digital age.
Why love? On his recent Seesmic post Loic Le Meur explains why was love chosen as the theme for LeWeb08:
Why LeWeb? In an interview at TechCrunch50 last September, he explained why LeWeb is a blogosphere Mecca:
John Palfrey, co-author of Born Digital on the Digital Natives generation:
David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous, on Net lingo:
Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of The Internet on the future of social media:
These excerpts were videotaped at the TechCrunch50 conference (with the exception of the interview with Sarah Lacy which was also later re-taped at her Boston UGBT event):
Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, announcing a new Google product on the company’s 10th anniversary:
Ariel McNichol and Julia Johnston are the co-founders and co-CEOs of mEgo, yet visitors to their demo booth at TechCrunch50 often asked “to speak with a guy”:
Sarah Lacy, author of Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, commented on Web 2.0 women during her recent book tour event in Boston: