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Free: Insult Boss, Client, Cranky People or Whiners Via YouTube or iPhone Videos

Insult AssistantQuick- what do you do when you’re in a horribly dull meeting, and your subtle cues aren’t working? Break out your iPhone and let the “Insult Assistant” alert the responsible party via video. Yep- there’s an app for insulting a client or boss, or even breaking up with someone.

This project, of course, was born out of the deep insight that it can be sometimes difficult or inconvenient to insult someone in person. So now you can degrade them from the comfort of your couch… via YouTube.

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Friends, welcome to the “Insult Assistant.” Below is a handy playlist of the beta insults, and thanks Slater for the tune he made about a year ago.

Right now we have the following FREE videos to help you insult someone via the ultra ease of video:

Scroll to scan the 20-30 second videos, and be sure to let me know what’s missing. Unfortunately you can’t send videos via e-mails on YouTube without being logged in, but I’m not sure if the e-mail will identify you. But most of these are for iPhone use for people brave enough to let the Insult Assistant deliver the message while they’re there. Hey- capture the reaction on video, please! I’d love to see them in action.

Associated Press Coins Term: “Indian” Embed

Talk about the left hand no knowing what the right hand is doing. The Associated Press, reported on CNet, spanked its own affiliate for copyright infringement. Turns out the Tennessee AP affiliate was simply embedding an AP video that had been posted on the AP YouTube channel with the embed option turned on (see video below- sue me).

The AP recently sent a letter to WTNQ-FM in Tennessee–an affiliate of the Associated Press, by the way–accusing the country music radio station of copyright violation for embedding videos from the AP’s official YouTube channel on its Web site, according to a station employee’s blog. The AP channel includes embed code for its videos, which allows any Web site or blog to embed the videos on their sites–a feature that can be turned off.

Dear, AP. If you’d like a lesson on turning off the embed feature on a video, give me a call. In the meantime, it’s hard to root for your right to copyright when you’re spanking your own affiliates for embedding — after you opted to invite users to embed. As of this writing, your channel’s latest video still has the embed option turned on.

It’s all sounding rather desperate, AP. In your pursuit to protect your legitimate rights you’re making some rather embarrassing errors that won’t help with the court of public opinion.