I appeared on MSNBC’s “Your Business” yesterday, and again tomorrow morning. It was a special about using online video to promote your business. Here’s me holding my book, Beyond Viral, upside down. Classy touch, right? It, um, was… on purpose. Right.
Sure we’ve heard all of the excuses why you’re watching YouTube but not creating your own videos: I have nothing interesting to add I don’t have a camera I don’t want my life online Now YouTube has eliminated one of those excuses, giving people without cameras the ability to build videos via animation of existing…
Check out Diana, a random stranger on Chatroulette (where two webcams are randomly paired). Little did she know that a personalized love-song and proposal was waiting for her… by DoneRightJr on YouTube. Epic “top comment” below since Chatroulette is notorious for pervs.
The kid who stole Mark Bao’s laptop made two mistakes beyond “Mac-larceny.” He recorded himself dancing on the stolen laptop’s webcam, and failed to realize that the victim, Mark, had installed recovery software on the machine. So Mark, an 18-year-old student at the University of Massachusetts, connected remotely to his Macbook Air laptop, retrieved this…
This friggin’ awesome. This video played over and over could make a terrorist cave, and without the ethical implications of water boarding. I beg you to subject people to it. It’s by the people that brought you this EPIC burger/fries video.
Thanks to “Seeing Through the Windows” author Preston Gralla and SFGate’s Matt Rosoff for pointing out what I’d missed. While YouTube/Google retains its massive lead in online-video viewing, Microsoft is catching up. I’ve written about comScore’s newest rankings, but failed to recognize that Microsoft quietly crept from #7 (last month) to #2. That fact went largely unnoticed…
comScore’s February data once again shows Google’s dominance in the online-video market, but Facebook is catching up. It’s now the fourth-largest online-video sharing property (see Facebook’s unofficial resource for more information). Facebook, as a sharp contrast from other sites, has short bursts of viewing (far shorter durations than other properties like YouTube, Hulu or Viacom…
Here’s that YouTube video of a loyal dog who protected his injured owner after the tsunami. The Japanese newscaster was kind enough to subtitle the dog’s message, but it’s not in English. Don’t worry. I’ve translated it with some modest embellishments. “I bite your fat ass if you touch my master-son. I is not pleased with tsunamis,…
YouTube’s Gay Godfather (zipster08) explains YouTube circa 2005-2011… why independent vloggers are creating fewer videos and YouTube was more of a “corporation” than “community.” The “small pond” evolves to a “vast market,” meaning more competition for new creators and the oldies… You may remember Zipster from the “YouTube Retirement Home.” But unlike his bi-polar chess-companion,…
Get some coffee or program your TiVos, kids. That video I shot Sunday for MSNBC Small Business (see MSNBC/Amex site) is going on television not the web (glad I didn’t quite realize that when I shot it, or I might have gotten nervous). It airs this week 3/20/11 at 7:30am EST and will re-air Saturday,…