Courtesy of the recently retired GoogleTube Video of the Day blog, here’s one of the coolest videos on the web. These guys are doing Parkour, and making it look as easy as napping. These guys do it in a series of abandoned Russian buildings. According to Wikipedia, Parkour is a physical discipline inspired by human…
May not seem like a big deal… learning to tie your shoe a bit faster. But what if it could change your life? Here’s Rocketboom’s spoof on Shernglee02’s “Tie Your Shoes Faster” video, with homage to Sliding Doors. Source: LoadedPun, which features the video and asks the question… Will cameos by internet stars hold the…
ZeFrank (ZeFrank show) has become part of my daily ritual. Addicting but the side effects are minimal. And he’s the Jon Stewart for a generation of ADHD video viewers… we want it quick, funny and ad-free. In today’s edition, he pokes fun at YouTube for its new policy on ownership of content.
Advertising Age writer Beth Snyder Bulik called Revver.com a TouTube rival with an model that’s a “kill app.” She describes the $30K profit Steven Voltz and Fritz Grobe made through their infamous “Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment.” Revver advertisers include Microsoft, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and American Apparel. Larger content creators are contributing to…
I finally decided that a blog about popular online video was remiss not to include some mention to the “Snakes on a Plane” viral videos. Especially since we’re down to less than a month before the August 18 release date. In case you’ve slept through the past 8 months, here’s the backdrop: Samuel Jackson’s movie…
So my joking reference to the “second law of viral videos” at the close of this “YouTube Viral Video Broker” clip resulted in this question from Joe Chapuis: What’s the first law of viral videos? Fair question. I hadn’t really considered the rules yet… I was spoofing someone that would have the arrogance to cite…
One of the things that’s always comforted me about putting my videos online is the power I maintain to remove them. Any of them. At any time. Whether they’re on YouTube, Revver or Google Video. Then I saw this report below from Google Video. Nearly 300,000 people have viewed my “Google Earth: Has it Gone…
Courtesy of Loaded Pun, here’s a clever “YouTube Anonymous” video that takes us deep into the psyche of someone obsessed with online video viewing & uploading on YouTube. Like most of my videos, it could use some tighter editing. But the payoff is worth the wait. Watch for her frizzy burnt hair, her nail chewing,…
Thanks to Joe Chapuis (WebVideoZone) for pointing this Boing Boing report out. It appears that the language around YouTube’s ownership of your content is getting a little tighter. Fortunately, they’re not trying to go for “exclusives.” Here’s a Boing Boing post by David Gulbransen that reminds us that a) we can always yank our videos,…