Recipe for a Failed Online Video Business
Here's a recipe for success… http://www.chapter11tv.com/. During this video, an overzealous CEO demonstrates how much he has spent, and how he has no apparent income model.
Here's a recipe for success… http://www.chapter11tv.com/. During this video, an overzealous CEO demonstrates how much he has spent, and how he has no apparent income model.
It would appear that the Howard Stern & XM Radio deal has scared the hell out of cell-phone providers. Cingular has partnered with HBO, and Sprint and Verizon are hunting for "short films suitable for the size-challenged cell-hone screen," according to Newsweek. Nokia is setting up a tent at the Los Angeles Film Festival to…
From Zefrank.com, it's "How to Impress Your Date." What's interesting about this is the lack of sound and B&W images… almost reminds you of Charlie Chaplin's early stuff.
Hysterical prank video from Google Video that has poor saps at a store seeing the Grim Reaper behind them on the television monitor.
Stephen King (not THAT Stephen King, but the one from the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto) spoke yesterday at my day job. He discussed the difference between legacy television viewing ("leaning back") and online video viewing ("leaning forward"). Obviously our attention span is different for each task- 30 minutes to hours for "leaning…
Here's Pepsi and Mentol Girl. Stay with it- it's worth it… A woman drinks Pepsi and eats Mentos to see what will happen to her. This is courtesy of "Viral Video Blog: The Best of What's Going Around." This one looks good too, but you need software to view these AOL video: AOL Video Blog.
This quote from a Cnet article on the topic of smut and online video: A weeklong review of some of the top user-generated video sites by CNET News.com unearthed scenes of beheadings, masturbation, bloody car accidents, bondage and sadomasochism. It's important to note that no child pornography was discovered. Meanwhile, imagine if YouTube needed to…