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Inside VidCon – Part 4: Lauren Francesca

August 9, 2011 / Archive, Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, vid, Videos

In the final part of Pop17′s “Inside VidCon” series, Sarah catches up with Lauren Francesca, AKA “Iwantmylauren”. Lauren burst onto the scene in 2009 when she teamed up with Tom Small’s “Key of Awesome” YouTube Channel. Her first major contribution was a now infamous Lady Gaga music video parody. The video received over 32 million hits on YouTube, and vaulted Lauren to internet celebrity status. In this video, Sarah and Lauren kick back and talk about her most popular videos, [...]

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Inside VidCon – Part 3: “Katers17″

August 8, 2011 / Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, Technology, vid, Videos

In part 3 of Pop17′s “Inside VidCon” series, Sarah connects with Kate Elliott, AKA “Katers17″ on YouTube. Kate was one of the first video bloggers out of the United Kingdom to achieve YouTube celebrity status. With her irresistible vernacular and razor sharp wit, it’s no wonder she has a large and loyal fan base. Sarah takes a quick stroll down memory lane with Kate, as well as a look into what her future may hold. Don’t miss it! And don’t [...]

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Inside VidCon – Part 2: Jessica Berry

August 5, 2011 / Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, Technology, vid, Videos

In Part 2 of Pop17′s “Inside VidCon”, Sarah hangs out with Jessica Berry – one of YouTube’s newest shining stars. Sarah and Jessica talk about her growing fan base, favorite movies, and her collaborations with other YouTube celebrities like DeStorm! Don’t forget to follow Pop17 on twitter @Pop17.. And subscribes to Jessica Berry’s YouTube channel here

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Inside VidCon – Part 1: “Mr. Safety”

August 4, 2011 / Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, Technology, vid, Videos

Sarah heads to LA for VidCon 2011, where all the biggest personalities on YouTube get together at this awesome viral video themed conference. In part 1, Sarah kicks back and talks about internet fame, money, and mean cats with the man behind one of YouTube’s most popular channels, Corey Williams, AKA “Mr. Safety” Look for Part 2 of Pop17′s “Inside VidCon” soon! And check out SMPFilms here

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King of the Web Empowers Internet Celebrity

July 29, 2011 / Entrepreneurs, Social Media, vid, Videos

King of the Web is a start up based in Seattle, Washiongton, focused on empowering online video creators to make videos and post them online. They were gracious in bringing me out for this interview. So fun! King of the Web is a website where you vote for who and what is awesome on the web. It’s a straight-up democracy. That means that you, your friends, your enemies, and even complete strangers get to decide who becomes King.

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China’s Controversial Twitter

July 27, 2011 / Entertainment, Featured, Social Media, Technology, vid, Videos

All across China, the worlds two largest networks, Facebook and Twitter are blocked by the government. For most westerners who are accustomed to updating their Twitter and Facebook status’s find China difficult.

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Women of E3: Gamer Girls

June 11, 2011 / Featured, Technology

Being a girl in tech is great! We stand out like a soar thumb at E3 in attendees, however, are abundant in booth babes. Why is that? We need more girls at E3 because statistics show that most gamers are girls. Girls are generally casual gamers and dominate social games on Facebook. There needs to be more representation of the casual gamers like Sarah Carroll, 1/2 of Sparah, who gained some serious geek and digital cred from her appearance at [...]

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Hermione Way Supports Japan Earthquake During #SXSW

March 13, 2011 / Charity, Entrepreneurs, Social Media

Hermione Way founder of Newspepper.com and contributor to Pop17.com is currently on a mission to get donations from SXSW attendees. The donations will be in aid of the Japan Earthquake relief fund. She is going round the event in Austin with an iPhone and ‘Square’ credit card processing device asking people to dare or challenge her to do various antics. The idea for the use of a Square device, a small iPhone accessory which processes credit card payments, originated on [...]

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The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity

July 4, 2008 / Videos

Rex Sorgatz is a link blogger at fimoculous. He follows internet culture, music, tv, media, tech and recently published an article in New York Magazine on how to become microfamous in 8 steps. I thought it was interesting and decided to interview Rex about his eight steps (self-publish, stylize, overshare, respond, ally, diversify, create controversy, persist).

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Caroline Waxler Interview

April 23, 2008 / Videos

Caroline Waxler is the author of Stocking up on Sin and the managing editor of MainStreet, a blog about how celebrities spend their money.

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Video Blogger Geeks at SXSW

March 12, 2008 / Videos

Story Links: In today’s episode of Pop17 I was lucky enough to interview some of the most awesome video bloggers at SXSW. Lisa Nova, Zadi Diaz, Kroosh, Clarence Smith Jr., Lux Alptraum, and Violet Blue.

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Internet People Fame Survey

February 25, 2008 / Archive

For the first Pop17 show I went to Washington Square Park to ask people if they knew about some people on the Internet. I took the survey at random making sure to include a variation of ages. Everyone knew what a celebrity is, but only a few were knowledgeable about this fairly popular phenomenon, online. It’s surprising how many people I surveyed knew little to nothing about anyone famous online. The Internet enhances our communication which encourages a newfound self-awareness [...]

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