Pranking the GarbageMan
You’ve seen the videos with someone hiding in a garbage can and trying to scare the piss out of a garbage man. Here’s my attempt. The ending hurts.
Provoking Comcast
Well after the Comcast Sleeping video and the AOL cancellation video, I thought I’d give this a go. I needed to cancel Comcast anyway… so I tried to see if I could provoke this rep. No such luck, but I had fun anyway. I find it very interesting that Comcast (and probably other companies with…
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Creating the Perfect Online Video Site (Frankenstein Style)
I’m planning on doing a thorough review of the major online video sites, but here’s my first attempt at creating the perfect online video site: It would have the traffic and community of YouTube. It would have Revver’s advertising-sharing model It would have Metacafe’s ability to sift the best content It would have that cute…
Google Video- More Viral Popularity Than I Thought
Up until recently I didn’t think my videos on Google Video were getting many views. Then I discovered you can enter your account and see total views. I’ve got more than 250,000 views on my videos. Here are a few. I ‘d recommend submitting your work to Google even if you put it elsewhere… seems…
Big Media’s Brave New World
This from a Forbes article titled “Big Media’s Brave New World“: Andy Moss, senior director of technical policy for Microsoft‘s entertainment and devices, said that one day the term might actually refer to things that users have actually made themselves. Online social-networking sites, coupled with falling prices for sophisticated video cameras and editing equipment, mean…
Find Me a Viral Video Creator With More than 500 Gems
This guy’s got 500 videos online at Revver (a record), and you’ll either love each one or be terrified. Check out James Jarvis’ blog and his videos (posted as MarquisDeJolie). When I first found my videos next to his, I had a couple nightmares that he was going to experiments with my kids. Then I…
Moe’s Burrito Video Contest
Vitrue and Moe’s are creating an online community that enables Moe’s consumers to create, produce and upload their own video ads. In the submitted advertisements, consumers will be asked to showcase how they are doing their part to put a Moe’s burrito in the hand of every woman, child and man across the nation. Submitted…
You Love WVFF. You Love WVFF Not.
The fickle readers of WillVideoForFood… Back on the rise since a 6/23 plummet but nowhere near the unexplained 6/1 spike. Each bar represents 1 billion readers, by the way.
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First Interesting Article on Online Video (in a While)
I’m getting so tired of the hype articles, or the latest story about an instant viral video classic. Finally, here’s an interesting piece. Source: The Ultimate Middle East Business Resource. Go figure. On YouTube: “But this bandwidth is expensive. It’s estimated that bandwidth costs YouTube US$1 million per month. But the investment – YouTube has…
Teddy Bear Thumb Drive
This has no video angle, but it’s going around the blogs. Cute or freaky? The teddy bear thumb drive. Here’s the source- it’s homemade so don’t try to buy it (yet).