Here are some video highlights of the YouTube gathering in New York City on July 7, 2007. It’s the #2 highest rated comedy of the day on YouTube, which is surprising. I thought it would only appeal to the folks obsessed with YouTube’s community.
I decided to go in costume for the beginning. SouthernTuber punked HappySlip in this clip.
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This post could be entirely fictitious, but it’s absolutely fascinating anyway. It’s a fantastic scenario that would explain how Google rationalized the $1.65 purchase of YouTube. The source? Mark Cuban’s anonymous but trusted source — who first posted this theory on the Pho List. Here’s how the saucy story goes: Google actually paid $1.15 billion…
It took almost two months of deliberation, but our judges have selected the honorable mentions and winner of the “Weird Comment” contest, which boasts a grand prize of an autographed slice of American cheese. As you won’t likely recall, back on January 5, 2008, I invited you to post the weirdest comments on this TechCrunch…
Techcrunch announces that Warner Music Group will allow its music to be used in YouTube videos, but retain the right to yank it if it chooses. …the caveat that Warner will have effective veto power over videos using their music is particularly interesting. In effect it’s just a technological realization of the long standing policy…
So I took a deliberate spill while hosting a panel at Streaming Media East called “Creating and Promoting Amateur Videos.” Paul Kontonis, CEO of For Your Imagination, screamed like a teenage girl, but was one of few people that realized it was a joke. The fall is 1 minutes and 9 seconds in. Warning: Per…
When I first discovered Yahoo! Answers, I rolled my eyes. Another futile attempt to facilitate the “knowledge sharing,” which historically provides lots of value for the recipient but little motivation for the subject-matter expert. It’s been the age-old problem of knowledge management within corporations, and part of the reason that Epinions and other companies have…
Stop the bidding. I mean it. Stop it. I want this painting, and you’re just going to toss me deeper in debt if you keep bidding. Paperlilies, the YouTube artist that did the fantastic parody of Jamie Lynn Spears, is auctioning off this giant glow-in-the-dark portrait of me (Nalts) on eBay. I love it, and…
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Wow, with that wig you looked just like HappySlip. Who was the dork with the glasses bothering you and wifeofnalts?
I was devestated not to meet you.
🙂
Michael Buckley
What the Buck
XOXO
PS- i really enjoy your blog
make more 777 videos.
As a card-carrying member of the Couture-Challenged Toothless Southerners Association, I’d like to thank you for bringing our plight to the attention of New Yorkers.
that wasn’t even sorta safe driving with kids in the car. But I was entertained.