A deep dive into digital marketing

YouTube Security?

Posted by Chris under Security, YouTube

Way too many clicks this morning to, check if this real or an ingenious art project (I even looked at MySpace TOS, well not that thoroughly). But here it is:
Has someone pimped you on MySpace and created a fake account of you, how’s a goth girl to prove she’s the real deal. Well according to these posts, track backed to death but I’ll start with ValleyWag, in order to prove ownership of a MySpace account, the company asks users to film themselves reading their account number to the camera. Brad Troemel assembled a number of these clips into Proof, a mesmerizing look into MySpace’s user base.

True or not it’s a strange reflection of either Brad or our times since the images he pulled from the larger collection seem to have a certain genre of heavy mascara, early Avril, emo/goth/punk chick-a-do’s. That and it feels like an idea concocted by some admins, as in: dude let’s have chicks video themselves to prove they’re who they are. Yeah it’s for their own security right.

Ohh, still on topic, my wandering search was paid off, in that Brad Troemel has some pretty interesting other photography on his site

Google, where is your certificate?

Posted by Chris under Google, Security

Writing my post the other day I did a search (on google) for google accounts. First result was

Google Accounts