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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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CBS Covers “Viral Videos” and Online Advertising Implications

ByNalts

Here’s an interesting CBS story on viral videos and how marketers are approaching them smartly… and not so smartly. Very well produced piece. Of course I’m biased. My “Annoying Bird” made a cameo (see top middle of the frame- in green).

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Moguls of New Media According to WSJ

ByNalts

If you want a quick crash course on the abscure talent that have become famous from online video, blogs, podcasts and the like… check out this nice WSJ article by John Jurgensen. It’s titled “Moguls of New Media.” Highlights from the piece Christine Dolce, whose MySpace page boasts nearly one million friends — making her…

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LucasFilms To YouTube: Put ‘Fan Films’ BACK On

ByNalts

Thanks to a comment by TK42one, we’ve picked up on this post by Rebelscum. Seems YouTube pulled some fan clips, and the Star Wars fans raised it with LucasFilms. Here’s the announcement from LucasFilms: Lucasfilm has been informed that YouTube recently removed from its site several fan-made Star Wars spoofs and parodies. We would like…

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View” Discussing Morning After Pill

ByNalts

No comments about the pro-life/pro-choice debate please (there are many blogs for that). But what’s intriguing about this clip from “The View” is that it’s all the buzz in the media. And even in the TiVo world, few of us would have access to this clip but for YouTube. Even if ABC posted it, you’d…

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Fynding Online Video Cites When You Can’t Spel

ByNalts

So here’s my way of helping people find online video sites when they can’t spell… oh, yeah, and for creating traffic for this highly profitable blog: Medacafe, Medicafe, meticafe, Metecafe is Metacafe YouTwo, YouToo, UTube, u-tube, YouToob is YouTube Rever, reffer, revur, revvur, river, rivver is Revver. Google Video is Google Video Yahoo Video is…

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YouTube Goes Bankrupt

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No- YouTube hasn’t gone bankrupt. I make up headlines to ensure RSS readers pop in for a visit. I’m allowed to do that because I’m not a journalist I’m a blogger. I can even do this in the middle of a post… 😉  Furthermore I could make up data and not attribute quotes, but I’ve…

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“YouRube” Gives Attention Without Compensation

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Says John Paczkowski of “Good Morning Silicon Valley:: YouTube says it’s protected from such legal attacks under a federal law that shields online services from liability for copyright violations its customers may commit, that argument loses potency if the service profits from infringements. One could argue that YouTube is doing just that by running ads…