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Notes: this video isn't real promotional material for Facebook. The music comes courtesy of Scott Olson. Poker is Veronica Belmont.
Following Facebook's launch of its application platform last week, we decided it was high time to explore the delicate balance that exists between it and social-networking juggernaut MySpace. And what better way to compare and contrast than a Get a Mac parody video? Sure, at this point it's about as passe as those Mastercard commercials, but somehow seeing our own Tim Moynihan dressed up like he got in fisticuffs with a lost-and-found bin makes it all worthwhile.
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Time Trumpet was the winner for film and TV in this year's South By Southwest Interactive Web Awards this past Sunday (see our coverage here). The site contains a number of faux-futurecentric video clips with historical satire about politics, current events, and celebrities. What's neat is the somewhat experimental interface that blends various media in partial 3D, similar to Universe which we took a look at yesterday. You can sort through it all by episode or subject, and each clip will organize itself into a neat, swirling vortex. It's total eye candy.
Most of the clips about people will likely confuse you unless you're up to date on British C-list celebrities. On the other hand, the news items have the satirical style the British pull off so well; things like bird flu and the general downfall of Western civilization are somehow made humorous. The site pulls its content from Armando Iannucci's half-hour program Time Trumpet, which had a six-episode run late last year on BBC Two.
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