These aren't videos, but they're both pretty interesting.
1) Make your own faces with FlashFace. (Courtesy of Aquadad)
2) View one of the weirdest yet compelling flash pieces: Home Star Runner's Parsnip Soup. (Courtesy of my brother, who knows weird. He's a regular contributor to News of the Weird).
The two largest video-sharing sites (YouTube and Hulu) have business models that increasingly limit their ability to act as a complete video search engines. YouTube has been a Google-esque fast tool for finding video clips that are getting offline buzz, but copyright-law enforcement is weakening it (full examples below). And of course Hulu is meant…
Woah. How’d it get to be January 3? I haven’t done my 2010 predictions for online video, and I’ve got a crap load of writing to do before my first draft manuscript is due for “Beyond Viral Video.” Well here’s JibJab’s 2009 best-of musical animated video parody thingy, and JibJab’s blog posts some “behind the…
Patton Oswalt, one of my absolute favorite comedians, rants about YouTube on this Comedy Central “Root of All Evil” video excerpt. Good to know he’s watching. Hey, Patton… Forget the sneezing Panda bear. I think Farting in Public rival Citizen Kane.
I constantly hear about the hours people spend on YouTube. I have a more efficient way of wasting time. I’ve been able to waste an hour each morning in less than 20 minutes by browsing Metacafe! The user interface is set up well so you can dive right to the most popular or most recent videos. The content is much better overall…
Right now you may channel surf between 100 to 500 channels, according to this article from The Mercury News. But Internet protocol television (IPTV) — television broadcast over the Internet — could change that. An estimated 49 million Americans already have the gear and broadband connections needed to receive IPTV, and this will allow for…
I’d like to say that switching to Genesis from Thesis was a “New Coke” stunt, designed simply to forge the bond between the 7 WVFF backrow members and the bloated novels I call “posts.” But I’d rather consider this a grand defeat, prefaced by a tremendous waste of time. My sister said the blog was…