Toby Bloomberg, who writes Diva Marketing Blog, asked me recently to define social media. I didn’t have a lot of time to think, okay? But here I am on her blog aside much smarter people. Like Peter Kim Being Peter a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. And the hysterical David Berkowitz (Marketers Studio), a Director of Emerging Media at 360i.
David, by the way, taught me the word “lolcats.”
According to the Associated Press via USAToday: YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announced today that YouTube will start sharing revenue with its millions of users. “We are getting an audience large enough where we have an opportunity to support creativity, to foster creativity through sharing revenue with our users,” Hurley said at the World Economic Forum….
So he was indeed an emu. And . He hasn’t exactly been a viral sensation, but the emu I caught on tape is back with its owner. And he’s currently the 6th top-rated comedy of the day on YouTube. Which is probably more publicity than he would have gotten had stayed home. To see video,…
In one of the more memorable moments of the incredibly quotable Stripes, a new recruit warns his fellow troupe: “The name’s Francis Sawyer… but everybody calls me psycho… any of you call me Francis I’ll kill you.” The drill sergeant’s response: “lighten up, Francis” (see video). “Lighten up” was one of the pieces of advice in a…
Watch out television. The joyous home-shopping experience can be now experienced via the comfort of online video. The New York Times reports that Joyus is satisfying that raging unmet need: Unlike other e-commerce sites that use video to advertise products, Joyus uses video to sell the products, and cites comScore statistics showing that shoppers who…
If anyone tells you they know what will go “viral,” they’re lying. We all know the general rules: short, comedic, shocking, funny, sexy. But even those of us immersed in this space are surprised about what we think will go viral (like “Filthy Little Lemon” or “YouTube is My Wife“) and what viewers actually like….
Well it’s nice to know there’s a pool on when I’ll get arrested. Seems that my crawling through a Denver airport worried a few YouTube viewers. Here’s TK’s pool on my arrest. Titled “Viral Video Genius Vilified Voraciously.” And for the record, we paid for Spencer’s fries. The real pool should be on when Nalts…
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Nalts – Must disagree .. you are every bit as brilliant as Peter and as funny as David! Thanks again for playing along.
Nice response Kevin. Now if I can just figure out a way to get my co-workers and relatives to understand and stop teasing me for the number of hours I spend “in front of my computer”.
I miss Nutcheese… I should hang out in her Stickam room more.
They didn’t sound smarter… you all just sounded like computer nerds. I’m sure glad I’m not a computer nerd! Oh crap… am I replying to a blog post! Does this make me a computer nerd? No… I got it… I am just doing research online… yeah that’s it… research.
btw… fallofautumndistro is stalking me.
That second guy was hitting on Toby Bloomberg big time, almost as bad as Katie Couric was hitting on you.
The third guy I have no comment on, since he had almost nothing to say himself.
As for your comment, you don’t give yourself nearly enough credit. You were as eloquent as Dostoyefsky. And almost as long winded too.
Okay I’m kidding. I can’t help it. I’m just in one of those “hey, let’s give nalts as much shit as we can” moods lately. Hopefully it will pass quickly, like that other thing I’m having trouble getting rid of. And I’m not talking about lice.
uh oh! i gotta fart!……………. o yea! not any more!
It was my daughter who taught me about lolcats.
I just saw zefrank on Animal Planet. He got a gig co-hosting a bit on animal fatherhood with ten or twelve other who-are-they?’s. Cool. So there IS a Hollywood ending for all this self-promotion and pandering. But, uh, he could’ve taken the shortcut everyone else took to get this gig and just showed up Wednesday night at The Laugh Factory on Sunset.
He shares his success and tips for creating that viral video that will sweep us into our own fifteen minutes of fame.