Osama Bin Laden Found on Google Earth
This is fantastic… a couple guys find Osama Bin Laden using Google Earth. Great acting too… the guys are apparently part of an improv troupe in NYC- ChocolateCakeCity.com.
YouTube’s Constant Functionality Enhancements
When you’re number one it’s hard to keep innovating. YouTube may have some fundamental business model holes, but I have to give it kudos for constant user-experience improvements. The team quietly roles out new functionality by the week. They’re featuress you didn’t know you wanted, but now you need them. For instance, they now track…
“Ripple Effect” News for Online Video? Puh-leez.
In a move the Wall Street Journal said could have a “ripple effect” for networks, CBS said it would will simulcast the soon-to-launch “Evening News with Katie Couric” live on the Internet. The WSJ ads, “Until now, no major TV networks have aired any of their programs on the Web simultaneously with television, although several…
Mentos Geyser Video Contest
You have until September 30, 2006 to enter the “Mentos Geyser Video Contest.” Prizes include enough Mentos to feed you for a year. Here’s the official website, and here’s the YouTube Mentos Geyser group that features the qualified entries to date. Here are my two entries. Mentos Jet Pack– kids had some fun strapping bottles…
Killer Weed
What happens when a kid gets a little carried away with Round Up? The weed strikes back. And it’s not a pretty site. By the way- you weren’t thinking the title “Killer Weed” meant something else, were you?
YouTube: When All Else Fails… Become iTunes
This week YouTube’s founder, Steve Chen, said he hoped to have the free music video download service running on his website within 18 months. Source: SMH.COM.AU, “YouTube Kills the Video Star.”
1997 Article on “Making Money on Online Video”
Just stumbled into this article by John Leland from a Jan. 1997 article in Videography magazine. Title: Making Money with Online Video. Check out some highlights. This is almost a decade old! What relevance do the Web’s financial realities (virtual and otherwise) have for video professionals? One very lucrative site that has proven the viability…
Bait and Switch From “The Office” Promoters
Here’s the note I got from SpecialOpsMedia when they were promoting “The Office” webisodes: The serialized, weekly arc will star the accounting staff of the Dunder Mifflin paper company in an edge-of-your-ergonomically-designed-seat whodunit. Also, we will be getting in prize packs with t-shirts as well as Dwight Shrute bobbleheads! And here’s the note I got…
Yahoo Asks for Citizen Created Commercials
CCC. That’s what I call ’em. Others say “consumer generated media,” but open-source ads are a subset of CGM. So here’s Yahoo’s collection of volunteer ads. The grand prize is… um… there’s isn’t a prize. But you’ll win the hearts of Yahoo. So go for it. Best of all, you can send yourself a reminder…
Out of the Office Post
I was getting bummed about the landslide decline in WVFF readers. Then someone explained that it’s summer vacation. Yeah- that’s it. Summer vacation. Let me know when you’re back, eh? Are you back yet?