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Terrific Post on Engadget About Online Videos & Money Making
ByNalts
I love this post from Engadget. It's about YouTube and its costs and profitability. Engadget estimates that YouTube probably pays about a million a month in broadband. Given that it has recent funding of about $8 million, it's only bought itself the summer to show that it can profit. Engadget traces the history of sites…
Parsnip Soup by HomeStar Runner
ByNalts
It’s years old, but it’s still one of my favorite online videos. In “Sound-a-Vision,” watch Homestar runner and his enemy Strongbad have a duel to settle their battle over the remaining parsnips at the depot. It’s a wonderful homage to early films with bad edits, repetitive lines, missing scenes and awkward pauses.
Viral Video Genius Spoof & Survival of the Happy People
ByNalts
Viral Video Genius, my first featured video, was unintentionally and subconsciously spoofed by self-proclaimed Phenomena, MrSafety, in “How I Became Popular on YouTube.” Well, we’ve all jumped the shark at some point. But in fairness, Cory will survive a YouTube nuclear war because he’s a human cockroach. And I mean that in a good way….
Best Buy Goes Walmart
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Business Week wrote about Best Buy’s increasing influence, which worries several major electronics companies (not the least of which are those formerly of Circuit City). Seems Best Buy’s influence is beginning to take a Walmart tone. “We used to call them the 800-pound gorilla,” says the executive of one company that sells televisions and other…
Bye ZeFrank
ByNalts
A note from WillVideoForFood Reader, PC: Tomorrow is ZeFrank‘s last day. Come on, I know you don’t like the guy, but you have to be a responsible journali… er… blogger and write something about it… You can quote me on that, Kev. Okay, Phil. Tomorrow is ZeFrank’s last day. There. I said it. I can’t…
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What Oprah Might Learn from YouTube This Week
ByNalts
Oprah did a show about YouTube yesterday. Ironically, I’m not sure many regular YouTube viewers and creators watched it. The show took the typical “mainstream media” angle of YouTube, and missed some of the more subtle but important aspects of online video: Community (there is an entire social fabric at the center of YouTube that…