Despite NBC reports to the contrary — and speculation by many YouTubers — LonleyGirl15 is actually real. Here is some footage we obtained of a 9-year-old Bree back in 1998. See for yourself. Some things never change.
Social experiment #28238. What happens when you get into a NYC taxi (like I did yesterday morning) and have a panic attack? The taxi driver was surprisingly receptive to me placing the camera on his dashboard and then screaming and whining as he took us to market research. I asked his permission, but didn’t tell…
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen may be hoping to do for digital magazines what they did for online video. According to Fusible, the duo have launched Zeen, and you can reserve your username for this cryptic new offering that may allow users to create and share custom magazine currations. Zeen announced on April…
Imagine Facebook as a pair of potentially Morman Aussies? Would you trust them with the information you share with the website? This is a well-timed video considering the recent attempt by Facebook to smear Google for social-networking privacy issues. Here are the folks from Burston Marsteller that were behind Facebook’s poorly executed op-ed campaign…
It’s all the rage in Boston. While Video Guru Steve Garfield got his mom YouTubing in 2006, and New Media Evangelist Chris Brogan recently helped mom and dad launch their own web presence (MomPopPow). And they’re not alone. The latest data show that boomers don’t need a guru son or daughter to get started in social media….
The LonelyGirl15 debate is really about the authenticity of online videos. For some reason people think that online videos are real, and don’t understand that they’re allowed to be fiction. I present two examples. “America’s Funniest Bloopers” was a spoof we did of America’s Funniest Videos. I never imagined people would debate its authenticity… one…
In a very interesting model, the producer of America’s Funniest Videos is bringing an archive of 1970s-present user-generated content to YouTube. And, no, Bob Saget and Tom Bergeron are not hosting, VHS players are optional, and the AFV brand isn’t involved. Thank God. Instead Vin Di Bona (who, trivia here, used some of my 1980s…
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no one cares about lonlygirl
Then YouTube traffic is represented by 78% of no one
Haha. Hey! Looks like you’ve got a little actress on your hands. Nice job.
That was hilarious! All I can say is keep your daughter away from kids casting agencies lest she become too famous to appear in Dad’s videos anymore…