Video: Sushi

Web Culture/YouTube/Videos
Found on: Youtube.com

It's over eight minutes long but sooooo worth it!



Youtube Stats(as of this post):

Views: 1,009,266
Comments: 820
Favorited: 3292 times


Some of my favorite comments:

Nate6333
Are these pure Japanese people. For some reason they look like they have some white in them .

bayervon
p.s. instead of arguing, some of you, especially the antagonistic ones trying to demean the others, should
invest your time in learning basics of ENGLISH GRAMMAR and taking advantage of that junk spam to increase your penis sizes as that's a pretty good explanation for your inferiority complexes expressed through insipid racist and other incompetent remarks.

Thanks for the link Jacob - yo yo!

NEWS: Justin.TV Network Launches: More Shows to Come

News/Social Networks/Videos
Found on: techcrunch.com

Using a process called "lifecasting" sites like Justine.TV and Ustream.tv are taking off and reality television just made a huge shift over to the web. Both platforms provide a network and a set of tools to create your very own live show using a webcam.

Techcrunch.com post:

24/7 reality online TV show Justin.tv has has turned into a bit of a mini-phenomenon since launching just two months ago.Their apartment was raided by the police, and they were later evicted by their landlord. They were on the Today Show. Justin has hung out with famous rappers. They’ve taken extravagant dares from their audience, and a crowd always surrounds Justin and his ubiquitous camera. Hundreds of adolescent viewers watched (sort of) as Justin had sex on the show, although users were left with a black screen and silence until the Justin.tv team started playing porn music. The site has been far more successful so far than the founders anticipated.

NEWS: Digg.com User Revolt

Web Culture/YouTube/Videos/Digg
Found on: Youtube.com

HD-DVD crack code on Digg results in multiple users getting kicked off the site and banned - then all hell breaks loose.



Youtube Stats(as of this post):

Views: 214
Comments: 3
Favorited: 3 times

Bonus link:

Kevin Rose Speaks out

Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video parody

Web Culture/YouTube/Videos/Comedy
Found on: Youtube.com

Who says that Alanis Morissette needs to lighten up and get a sense of humor?



Youtube Stats(as of this post):

Views: 577,941
Comments: 1257
Favorited: 2597 times

Some of my favorite comments:

Sle3pyyx3

the only reason Alanis Morissette did is coz she cant get a song back in the charts coz she is fucking shit so she has to make fun of some one who is doing really well with their career

kathrynkavs

OMFG U ARE AN ASS HOEL

Thanks for the link Jacob - yo yo!

YouTube Offering 50/50 Revenue Split with Users Next Week?

News/Social Networks/YouTube/Videos
Found on: Mashable.com

Mashable.com is reporting that YouTube may offer a revenue-sharing model for their users as early as next week -- basically, offering a 50/50 revenue split similar to the one that their rival Revver.com offers.

Mashable post:

YouTube may offer a revenue-sharing model for their users, taking an important step in that direction as soon as next week.

The option to insert a video ad before or after an uploaded clip, with an offering to split the ad revenue 50-50 with users, is said to be in the works. With the issues surrounding pirated videos on the site as well as many advertisers not being able to ensure the type of content that their campaigns will be shown alongside, it’s no wonder that an ad revenue-sharing model has yet to be installed.

NEWS: Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival

News/Web Culture/Web Browser/Video
Found on: news.com

Microsoft's so called Flash "Killer" Silverlight, was announced at the NAB show in Las Vegas yesterday.

The Web browser plug-in will be available for both PC and MAC platforms and will play web videos as well as display interactive Web applications.

Microsoft's initial focus will be developing partnerships with advertising agencies, media and entertainment companies.

CNET post:

On Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft launched Silverlight, a Web browser plug-in for playing media files and displaying interactive Web applications.

The company intends to release a beta of Silverlight, formerly called Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), at the Mix07 conference for designers and Web developers in Las Vegas later this month.




Bonus Link:

Stealing the limelight from Adobe?
With the rapid rise of Web video, the competition between Microsoft and Adobe is set to intensify.

White Chicks & Gang Signs

Web Culture/YouTube/Video/Comedy
Found on: Youtube.com

This has to be one of the funniest Youtube videos - EVER!



Youtube Stats(as of this post):

Views: 935,844
Comments: 3281
Favorited: 5489 times

Some of my favorite comments:

Soccerchick274

gayyy but it was funny
but seriously..
since when are the PEACE and ROCK ON signs considered GANG signs...? lmfao wow.

MikeG82

why do they make those signs? glad to see i'm not the only one that thought they looked retarded

NEWS: Groundbreaking Internet Drama to Air on UK's Top Social Network

News/Social Networks/Web Culture/Videos
Found on: sys-con.com

The team that brought us the world's most popular interactive drama: Lonelygirl15 is teaming up with Bebo.com to launch a spin-off called "Lonelygirl15 presents... KateModern," this should prove to be a really smart move on Bebo's part.

sys-con.com post:

Lonelygirl15 was launched last summer and the program has since been viewed over 50 million times. Bebo was founded in 2005 and has over 31 million users worldwide who spend an average of 29 minutes on Bebo each day.

Following the massive success of Lonelygirl15, "Lonelygirl15 presents... KateModern" will expand from the original storyline to that of a teenage university student in London and her struggle to balance her complex social life with the dark forces that shadow her. Containing all of the best loved elements of Lonelygirl15, "Lonelygirl15 presents... KateModern" will leverage the high involvement of its fan base, enabling them to post messages for the show's characters, exchange plot ideas with each other and upload their own videos to the characters' profile pages.

NEWS: GDC 2007: Phil Harrison, Sony, Unveil 'Home'

News/Social Networks/Sony/Games
Found on: 1up.com

Sony's set to muscle in on Second Life and their market share with their forthcoming online social media metaverse called, "Home", should be available as a free download for the PlayStation 3 in autumn 2007.



1UP post:

Last week's reports on Sony's potential 'Home' service either generated even more hype for Phil Harrison's Game Developer Conference keynote or stole the thunder from Sony's big unveiling. Maybe it did both, and considering what Sony showed with 'Home' -- that may not be a bad thing.

Home is officially being branded as a "3D user community for PlayStation 3" by Sony, but it's also being called an "innovative user community title," effectively blurring the line between "service" and "game." The two-pronged approach to marketing this product may show some confusion as to what home is. That's a question Sony won't be able to answer until this Fall, when PlayStation 3 owners will get their hands on the final free download (the experience enters beta next month).

BONUS YOUTUBE VIDEO --> PLAYSTATION 3 HOME

NEWS: LONELY PLANET AND CURRENT TV

Web Culture/Website/Videos/Travel
Found on: lonelyplanet.com



Professional travel documentaries with user-generated content, sounds like a new online video network to me.

Lonely Planet TV post:

Lonely Planet and Current TV have teamed up to launch a new travel television franchise, “The Bluelist,” based on Lonely Planet’s well-known brand of the same name. The series of 26 short-form, three-minute “pods” will be hosted by writers and staffers of Lonely Planet worldwide, and will debut on January 18 on Current TV.

Lonely Planet’s “Bluelist” (www.lonelyplanet.com/bluelist) brand presents hip “top ten” lists of travelers’ favorite travel experiences, and the new program on Current follows the same format. The show will spotlight some of Lonely Planet’s writers’ and staffers’ “Top 3” travel recommendations, from the expected (big wilderness escapes; best places for 24-hour party people) to the more unexpected (best places to have an existential crisis; best places to get into a fight).

NEWS: Man Behind the Clinton Clip Worked for Obama's Net Strategists

News/YouTube/Video/Politics
Found on: washingtonpost.com

With the presidential elections still a good two years away the fight for the democratic seat just got really nasty and the fireworks are already starting to fly - yeah, I'm talking about the Hilary video that's running viral on YouTube, "allegedly" sanctioned by Obama's camp.

Washingtonpost.com post:

The creator of a controversial YouTube clip that attacked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was an employee of the Internet strategy firm on the payroll of the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

"I made the 'Vote Different' ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process," Phil de Vellis wrote on the liberal blog Huffington Post.

Monty python - Black knight (star wars)

Web Culture/YouTube/Video/Parody
Found on: Youtube.com



Youtube Stats(as of this post):

Views: 659,227
Comments: 475
Favorited: 3810 times

Some of my favorite comments:

zaminvakhan:You people are so stupid...there isn't a word yet invented that encompasses that accurately describes the sheer lack of interior support in your cranium. These types of posts where you predict people's deaths are bs, cause i have read them. they were mildly amusing the first time but mind-boggling quantity of these type of posts is getting me ticked!

GerevulSnizer:Monty Python is new thing for me... Why's the Black Knight (who is Darth Vader now) still alive? No hands or legs... great vid still

NEWS: Ex-Disney chief launches Web video company

News/Web Culture/Video
Found on: news.com

Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner launched a new web video company called Vuruga this week - it's mission: deliver "high-quality, story-driven content" on par with all the other crap on television.

Vuruga's first series will be a mystery drama called "Prom Queen," the first of 80 (90 second long) episodes will begin airing next month.

Cnet post:

Vuguru, officially a project of Eisner's investment firm Tornante, debuted Monday along with its first production and set of sponsors. According to a statement from the new company, Vuguru aims to focus on "high-quality, story-driven content for the Internet" on a par with professional television and cinema productions.

The inaugural Vuguru series, a mystery drama called Prom Queen, will release the first of its 80 episodes on April 2. The 90-second clips, aimed at a tech-savvy teen audience, have been produced in conjunction with Web video company Big Fantastic--best known as the team behind the video podcast Sam Has 7 Friends. Among Prom Queen's sponsors is the magazine-turned-webzine Elle Girl, which stopped print publication last year to focus on online and mobile distribution.

NEWS: Viacom lands video deal with Joost

News/Web Culture/IPTV
Found on: reuters.com

If you don't know what Joost is by now, here's the skinny: the boys that started Kazaa and Skype recently launched a new Ad-supported internet TV service, leveraging the P2P technology that they used to make Kazaa what it was back in the day (totally sucks now) and Skype what it is today.

Fast forward to this story; earlier this week Viacom agreed to provide video content to Joost and it's users in return for a piece of the pie - huge!

Reuters post:

Viacom Inc., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa.

Viacom said on Tuesday hundreds of hours of TV programing from its MTV and BET Networks and feature-length films from Paramount Pictures will be available to Joost users for free under a revenue-sharing deal between the two companies.

It did not disclose financial terms, but an industry source said Viacom was likely to have secured a slightly better agreement than its traditional deals to receive two-thirds of advertising revenue.

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.

Web Culture/Web 2.0/Videos
Found on: Youtube.com

Tags ksudigg web2.0 digital ethnography



Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 1,096,437
Comments: 3277
Favorited: 12950 times

Web 2.0 in under 5 blurbs:

This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing one more final draft. Please leave comments on what could be changed or improved, or what needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe if you want to be notified when the revision is released.

Some of my favorite comments:

aft3789

Wow, I'm so glad I'm replying on the third page, this is going to be watched like 12,457,553,778 times in a few weeks, and there will be like 75,352,235 replies soon.

Yea, I rule.

okcbkcom

Excellent video - very thought-provoking. The internet has certainly come along way in 10 years.

NEWS: YouTube for Hipsters

News/Web Culture/IPTV/Videos
Found on: vbs.tv

Hipsters all over the world rejoice -- you now have your very own internet TV channel. A joint venture between Vice Magazine and MTV has given birth to VBS.tv, a full fledged online broadcast network.

VBS.tv post:

VBS is an online broadcast network. We stream original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. We carry a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world. People have used words like eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary to describe VBS, but we kind of just snapped our fingers in their faces and went, “Whatever. Tell us something we don’t know.”

NEWS: Facebook and Comcast's Ziddio Partner to Create User-Generated TV

News/Social Networks/Facebook
Found on: prnewswire.com

Facebook inked a deal last week with Comcast's video site, Ziddio.com to enable Facebook users to create and share videos. Facebook is hoping to drive up usage by giving users the chance to have their videos included in a new television series which will appear on Comcast's On Demand menu.

PR NEWS post:

Facebook, the Internet's leading social utility, and Ziddio.com, a national multiplatform user-generated video site recently launched by Comcast Interactive Media, today announced a partnership that will allow Facebook users to create and share user-generated videos and give them the chance to become part of a new television series titled "Facebook Diaries."

Beginning in March, the companies will kickoff a program that includes contests asking users to submit short video segments about their lives. Throughout the contests, Facebook users will be encouraged to upload, view, share and rate the videos. Selected videos will be featured prominently online on Facebook and Ziddio.com and on television including Comcast's ON DEMAND service.

It's a global underwear crisis!

Web Culture/Patagonia/Video/Green
Found on: Youtube.com

Tags Patagonia Recycling Mission Recycle



Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 168
Comments: 0
Favorited: 0 times

Agent Timmy's blurbs:

Recruited to help our troubled planet, Agent Timmy has been called in to rally against the world threatening global underwear crisis. Patagonia, a leader in the outdoor gear and producer of polyester underwear, has sent Agent Timmy, the most elite underwear problem solver in the world, to the Teijin Factory in Japan to see their new machine for recycling underwear.

NEWS: Fox subpoenas YouTube after "24" clips posted

News/Web Culture/YouTube/Andrew Wallenstein
Found on: today.reuters.co.uk


Someone's in big trouble...Fox just served YouTube with a subpoena to try to identify the person or persons that uploaded entire episodes of their hit series "24" and "The Simpsons".

Some of the episodes of 24 actually appeared on YouTube prior to the premiere of the new season - yikes!

Reuters UK post:

20th Century Fox served YouTube with a subpoena Wednesday demanding the Google-owned viral video site disclose the identity of a user who uploaded copies of entire recent episodes of primetime series "24" and "The Simpsons."

The subpoena, which first came to light on the blog Google Watch (http://googlewatch.eweek.com/index.html), was granted by a judge in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after being filed by the News Corp.-owned studio on January 18. It is not yet known whether YouTube has complied with the request.

In addition, a second, lesser-known video site, LiveDigital, was also served with a similar subpoena.

Mister Heat Miser Video - Merry Xmas!!!

Social Networks/Youtube/Christmas/Video
Found on: Youtube.com

Tags heatmiser christmas cartoon



Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 1,860
Comments: 2
Favorited: 12 times

Some of my favorite comments:

santababy132
my favortie cartoon ever!!! I LOVE IT

edisonoside
Didn't religious groups ban this some years back??

NEWS: YouTube releases top-10 video list for 2006

News/Social Networks/YouTube/Videos
Found on: ctv.ca

The Associated Press names the top 10 most "SIGNIFICANT" YouTube videos of 2006, with Lonelygirl15 topping the list.

CTV post:

Lonelygirl15 leads the pack on AP's top-10 YouTube video list for 2006



1. The face of YouTube: The cute, bedroom confessions of Lonelygirl15 remain the site's quintessential expression. Of course, the pretty high schooler named Bree was eventually revealed to be 19-year-old actress Jessica Lee Rose, who was acting out a scripted plot with two behind-the-scenes producers. But that strange mutated duality of what's real and what's fiction, what's amateur and what's professional, remains the heart and soul of YouTube, where everybody and nobody is a star.

2. Network wake-up call: "Saturday Night Live's'' "Lazy Sunday'' mock-rap sketch was, in some ways, what started the revolution. The video was seen by more than five million viewers before NBC asked YouTube to remove it in February. Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg's rhymes boosted the hipness of "SNL,'' but more importantly, it was the first time networks were alerted to their new competition. NBC reacted fearfully, and later opted to built up its own websites with online video. The networks continue to experiment with YouTube. Recently, CBS has claimed its late shows have increased in ratings after posting clips from "The Late Show with David Letterman'' and "The Late Late Show'' on YouTube.

3. Political fallout: YouTube, like the Internet in general, has made it a specialty to reveal the gaffes and mistakes of the establishment. Of course, few would say Virginia Sen. George Allen didn't deserve his fate after a video of him calling a rival campaign staffer "macaca'' drew constant clicks on YouTube. Allen went on to lose an extremely close election -- a race that YouTube could well have turned. On the other end of the spectrum, Michael J. Fox's tremulous campaign ads for various Democratic candidates who support stem cell research proved powerfully effective and were seen by millions more than would have otherwise caught them on TV.

NEWS: StumbleUpon offers auto discovery of online videos

Social Networks/Web Culture/Video/Eric Auchard
Found on: reuters.com

With over 1.6 million registered users, look who just jumped into the online video search frenzy.

Reuters post:

StumbleUpon, which helps Web users discover sites based on the ratings of users with similar tastes, on Wednesday said it was offering a way to create personalized channels for viewing online video.

Stumble Video provides a way to watch a stream of videos from popular video sites YouTube, Google Video and MySpace that are automatically matched to individual interests, the company said.

While online video search systems have proliferated over the past year, discovering what to watch typically depends on simple popularity rating systems or text searches that count on the user guessing what terms were used to label the video.

Youtube Video: PS3 vs. Wii Commercial

Social Networks/Web Culture/Youtube/Video
Found on: Youtube.com

Commercial comparing the PS3 to the Wii, like the PC and Mac ads.

Tags PS3 Wii Nintendo G4



Youtube Stats (as of this post):

Views: 61,112
Comments: 212
Favorited: 278 times

Some of my favorite comments:

swishieelove

i thought this commercial was so simple it was brilliant. The "hot chick" represents the wii as a cheap, affordable, easy system who's main purpose is FUN. While the PS3 tries way too hard to get all fancy that it is simply too fat and complicated.

stryker1138

And the Xbox 360 would be an Angelina Jolie or a Carmen Electra

fridaysindetroit

"I'm large and in charge . . ." Hahaha. Good commercial.