I’m Linking to Vegemite
I’m linking to Vegemite’s website because you’re not allowed to.
Free Survey Tool Courtesy of Google Documents (how to use it)
I must have missed this memo, but Google Documents provides a free and easy-to-use survey tool. Here’s a video that explains it, and a crappy how-to video (see link) to help you set one up. However it’s pretty intuitive. Remember the days you’d need to pay for one on SurveyMonkey or SurveyGizmo? Now simple ones…
AT&T Creates Stupid Hulu 2.0
AT&T launched its own video portal. http://entertainment.att.net/tv. We are not impressed, even if this is a “soft launch” that is “a step forward for our three-screen strategy to provide more content to more customers across any device” (Broadcast Room, via TechCrunch and George Strompolos, YouTube’s Technical Support lead. 😉 Mkay- so now anyone can skin…
MTV Cribz Satire Gives LisaNova Last Laugh on MadTV
In a spoof of MTV Cribz, LisaNova takes you through her teen cribz with her “giant ugly bitch face” friend Jasmine (Kassemg with a remarkable ability to stay cross-eyed). Lisa Donovan is showing MadTV (a show that had her for only four episodes) that she is having the last laugh. This episode of the new…
The First YouTube Video Ever
The New York Times wrote recently about the first video ever posted on YouTube. Here’s Jawed Karim telling us that he’s standing in front of the elephants. Further, he explains that the “cool” thing about elephants is that they have really long trunks. Karim would later update his video to show an annotation that points…
Most Popular YouTube Stars: Rankings, Stats and Trends
My last post about TheStation made me revisit the most-subscribed YouTube “stars” and channels to see what’s changed. Who are the most-viewed, most-subscribed and most popular people on YouTube? Here are some trends, stats and sources for additional information. First some trends: We’re still seeing YouTube’s “most subscribed” list (more important than “most viewed” because…
Top YouTube Stars Convene “The Station”: A Modern Brat Pack & YouTube YouTopia?
YouTube Stars form a Brat Pack Collective
YouTube is a Search Engine, Dummy
YouTube was once a popular video-sharing site built on community. That community is still critical to gaining and keeping a large audience, but heat maps show the YouTube masthead is HAWT around the search field, and YouTube is now the second most-popular search engine after Google. It beats MSN and Yahoo. Or YahooMSN. ReelSEO has…
Crowdsourcing a Creator’s Best Videos
I had trouble when putting together my “best of Nalts” DVD because it’s not easy to rank my videos on YouTube or other sites by rating. Also- the ratings aren’t necessarily fair. A popular video ALWAYS gets a lower rating than one that’s seen by a small group of my regular viewers. Superl8tive.com just invented…
Poor Man’s FlipCam: Sylvania DV-128
A few people have written me notes to the extent of, “I wish I could do videos, but my camera is so bad.” I usually tell them to relax, and just make sure the lighting and compression is good. The reality is that those two factors can make up for a lot if your camera…