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ByNalts

One of the things that gets me through the holidays is the anticipation and enjoyment of JibJab’s annual year-end song parody. When Twitter rumors about CNN’s announcing Morgan Freeman’s death this week, I called JibJab’s Voice Jim Meskimen (website/on YouTube) to see if he’d do his classic Freeman impersonation. He did in this “Morgan Freeman…

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Al Gore’s Penguin? You Have a Right to Manipulate Me. As Long as You Tell Me You Are.

ByNalts

One of my wife’s tabloids featured an ad for Vitamin Water featuring American Idol star Kelly Clarkson (I guess she lost enough weight that the campaign is live). The ad is made to look like the cover of the tabloid and uses its masthead. Since it appears upsidedown and is marketed by tiny 10-point type…

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Is Soapbox a Zune? MSN Launches YouTube Competitor

ByNalts

It’s been in talks since September 2006, but MSN finally launched a public beta of SoapBox (source: DigitalTrends). Although MSN has about 10% of the search market (compared to Google and Yahoo’s combined share of more than 80%), it does have the advantage of being backed by the world’s largest software company. While the world…

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Want to Get Rich? Develop a Tool that Allows Video Submitters to Hit All Major Sites at Once.

ByNalts

Calling all tech-savvy entrepreneurs. There’s an unmet need among us online-video nerds. We spend hour submitting to multiple sites, and it’s quite time consuming and tedious. When there were dozens of search engines, website owners had the same problem. A few free/paid tools emerged that promised they could submit your URL to a variety of…

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Sponsored Fun or Selling Out? Comedy Duo On Road Trip for Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz.

ByNalts

Rhett and Link, comedic video amateurs, are mountaineering above the overhang of “The Great Cliff of New-Media Sponsored Advertising.” They’re harnessed to each other with a taut rope, knotted with creativity. The friends swing effortlessly to the next hold in a pendulum traverse. Rhett knows the objective danger as he firmly grabs his nub, and Link’s total attention is committed to…

6 Comments

  1. Let’s hope You Tubegoing off line will find a way to block that and fix everything else, especially messages and those random videos that keep popping up in my sub list!

  2. Gee, I wonder who’s behind this. Perhaps it’s that arrogant tool whose name I forget who published that stupid tech crunch article bragging about how he games the system in all sorts of unethical ways?

    Or maybe . . . it’s renetto.

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