Sidepodcast

You may have already heard about this from Episode 49, or you may have found your way there by yourself, but today I’m here to promote the Facebook group.

A while back, I had an email from Paul Gibson who suggested: “Why don’t you set up a Facebook group.”

Ten minutes later, I mailed him back: “Done. Enjoy.”

This is what we’re like here at Sidepodcast Towers. Tell us what you want to see, or something you think we should be trying and we will do it. I’m not talking bungy jumping or anything like that, though, so don’t get any ideas.

Anyway, the group.

I didn’t really know what the point of a Facebook group was before, but every day I’m starting to see how fun it can be and what cool things we can do:

• Share photos
• Upload videos
• Submit links
• Discuss stuff
• Post on the wall

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Two days ago Christian Horner confirmed that Red Bull’s RB4 chassis will make its track debut in January. That in itself isn’t a particularly fascinating fact - announcements about new car launches rarely are. What is worth mentioning though, is the team’s new video, released today on YouTube.

A 30 second time-lapse sequence shows staff entering and leaving the factory in Milton Keynes and then confirms the car’s launch date to be 16th January 2008. The video is attributed to a user named sequencepostprod, which we can probably assume is related to the television company Sequence Post Production (SPP).

UK Formula 1 fans will probably recognise SPP as the team behind some of ITV’s title credits as well Martin Brundle’s “F1 Insight” series. Presumably the team have been brought in to work on the launch, but it’s odd that the video doesn’t feature on Red Bull’s homepage alongside the other official showreels, not to mention the fact that the production company decided to release it under their own name first.

Here’s the full clip in case you haven’t already seen it:

I wonder if this means Formula 1 teams are finally getting to grips with viral videos and social networking?

We’re looking forward to 2008 already.