Gawkk
Gawkk.com is a community-based social video sharing website
that specializes in allowing people to collect and share videos with their
friends. Gawkk does not host videos directly like YouTube and Metacafe but
instead lists embedded videos from any hosting site on the web in public
channels created by the community. The site gets its videos from
user-submission of the video URL or embed code, RSS feeds and some web
crawling.
Gawkk organizes videos around channels, and members can
subscribe to public channels that group videos in chronological order relative
to a particular topic, such as a TV show, movie, celebrity, musical artist,
comedian, etc. Members can save videos to their own personal video channel,
follow other members' channels and share their saved videos with friends that
follow them back, similar to the web service Twitter.
The privately held company was founded by Gary Culliss and
Thomas Mango in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
Geek Pop
Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists
inspired by science. It was established in 2008 and since 2009 has coincided
with National Science and Engineering Week in the UK. In the first festival,
hosted by the website Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science attendees
were only able to download a podcast featuring songs about science as a
radio-style festival report. From 2009, the festival moved to its own website
where listeners could listen to a variety of free music and download the
radio-style report podcasts, called the "highlights podcast". The
Geek Pop website also produces a monthly podcast and has hosted live events.
Online festival
Geek Pop is an online festival, an idea that has been in
existence since at least the Exposure Festival, 2003. Online festivals have a
set launch time, but can only be accessed online, meaning they do not happen in
a fixed location. Geek Pop festivals remain available online after their launch
date, meaning they are always accessible.
As an online festival does not have a real location, they
are similar to festivals only in that they have a set time and that they
celebrate a particular aspect of a community, albeit an online community. The
emergence of social media has enabled online festivals to allow people to
communicate to each other during the online festival. At Geek Pop festivals,
this communication is primarily achieved through an online "bar",
which uses Twitter on the website to show tweets about Geek Pop.
There are environmental benefits to having an online
festival as opposed to, or in conjunction with, a real festival. Half of the
acts playing in 2008 were from overseas, but no carbon was used to
"bring" them to a primarily UK audience. There is no litter or waste
generated by the festival and the majority of the marketing is done online,
reducing the amount of paper needed.
Geek Like Me - Track Listing
1. "Animals" by Helen Arney with Mr Simmonds
featuring Professor Elemental – 4:01
2.
"An Element Sends a Postcard Home" by Spirit of Play – 3:08
3.
"The Day of the Snail" by The Sound of the Ladies – 4:12
4.
"Radio Gagarin" by Karmadillo – 4:23
5.
"DNA (The Genetics Calypso)" by Jonny Berliner – 2:49
6.
Brokeback Workbench" by MJ Hibbett and Vom Vorton – 2:47
