October 28th, 2008
Music by Podingtonbear
YouTube had a meetup in New York City. It’s interesting to see how YouTube is revolutionizing television. Do you think the stars of YouTube should stay online and move to Television?
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October 24th, 2008
Intel is asking people what inspires them and this is my answer. I’d love to hear from you all. Even if you don’t make videos and post them online, what inspires you to do what you do?
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October 21st, 2008
Music by Podingtonbear.
New York City, the home of Madison Avenue, held Advertising Week and brought together thought leaders in online advertising to share ideas. We went for The Real Time Matrix to hear people’s ideas and experiences making money online. From publishing to advertising, being creative will make you stand out from the rest.
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October 12th, 2008
Music by Evan
There is no guarantee of success if you are an internet celebrity transitioning to Hollywood. We may have seen wild successes, but the uncertainty of abandoning the web in hopes of being big in Hollywood can end in a no win situation.
Today DECA, a digital entertainment company, announced that it’s investing in the YouTube sensation Smosh to make original content for the web. The deal will make them an exclusive business partner in marketing and distribution. Anthony Padilla said, “We are extremely excited about joining the DECA family. We love making videos and the feedback from our fans has been amazing. With DECA’s help we look forward to bringing Smosh to even bigger audiences.” How DECA plans to find bigger audiences for the most-subscribed YouTubers ever will be interesting to see.
DECA was founded in 2007 by experienced entertainment and Internet executives who previously held senior roles at Sony Pictures, ABC, and Yahoo! Music. DECA uniquely identifies, funds, markets and distributes web shows. Based in Santa Monica, California, the company is backed by Mayfield, General Catalyst, and Atomico.
In other development news, popular YouTube comedian and celebrity commentator Michael Buckley recently signed a deal with HBO Labs to create online video shows. Joshua Cohen of TilzyTV says Michael is “just mean enough, just funny enough, and with the right dose of you-go-girl” to make it big.
In addition, a web pilot called The Remnants which stars web celeb Ze Frank (with other stars like Justine Bateman and Ernie Hudson) is currently being considered by NBC. It has been described as “a quirky and comedic story of a group of friends who search for answers and survival, upon realizing they are some of society’s last living inhabitants in post-something Los Angeles.”
As we fall deeper into an economic recession, the studios will likely consolidate their spending and turn to the web as a cheaper way to produce and reach audiences who use content to engage end-users.
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October 5th, 2008
In less time than Sarah Palin has served as governor of Alaska, Ben Huh’s company has grown from a tiny blog to a network with over 100 million page views a month. The company runs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, EngrishFunny, and many other sites that will make you LOL. I met the co-founders, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami at ROFLCon in Cambridge, Massachusetts this year. They are releasing their LOLcat book just in time for the holiday season.
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September 28th, 2008
The Web 2.0 Expo made it’s way to the Javits Center in New York City. Speakers included Dan Lyons a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, Tim O’Reilly, Cal Henderson, Fred Wilson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Arianna Huffington, Jay Adelson and Clay Shirky. Tech entrepreneurs gathered to network and learn about useful technologies. We interviewed Rob Sandie, Mat Man and David S. Rose.
Music by Podingtonbear
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September 18th, 2008
Martin Sargent is a TV personality perhaps best known for his time spent working on The Screen Savers at TechTV which later became G4. In 2005, he launched a show named Infected with Revision3. Infected ended in 2007 after 50 episodes and in 2008 Sargent introduced Internet Superstar, a show about internet celebrity. He currently hosts the show along with Web Drifter at Revision3.
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September 5th, 2008
Tom Anderson is the President of MySpace. As of September 3, 2008, Tom has over 243 million friends because he’s all users first friend when they start an account on MySpace. Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch calls Anderson a real life “WarGames hacker.”
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September 3rd, 2008
Lil’ Wayne’s Lollipop music video has been recreated by two young up and coming women artists, Madison and Erin. Madison’s a micro-celebrity on Myspace where you may listen and download her music for free.
Related posts: Kanye West and Perez Hilton.
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