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  • CES 2012: Waterproofing and Kitchen Tablets – with Sarah Austin and John C. Dvorak

    CES 2012: Waterproofing and Kitchen Tablets – with Sarah Austin and John C. Dvorak

    Sarah Austin and well known columnist John C. Dvorak discuss some featured products from CES 2012. John and Sarah discuss waterproof smartphones, kitchen tablets, the Nokia lumia 800, and Sarah’s amazonian iphone nightmare. Stay tuned for more CES coverage. Tomorrow we’ll be featuring our best of CES TV review. Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook

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  • CES 2012: Sarah Austin and John C. Dvorak

    CES 2012: Sarah Austin and John C. Dvorak

    Sarah Austin and well known columnist and “techxpert” John C. Dvorak discuss CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show). Is the popular event losing some appeal? With Microsoft and Apple dropping out, what is the future of CES? John and Sarah discuss, along with some initial product highlights. Stay tuned for more CES coverage with Sarah and John. Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook

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  • Fandom DIY: Comic Con 2011

    Fandom DIY: Comic Con 2011

    We went to Comic Con in San Diego, California, to ask people about their costumes and characters. The people at Comic Con are super fans and loving it by making their costumes from scratch. These do it yourselfers show that fandom living takes commitment.

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  • The Little Bay Book Launches

    The Little Bay Book Launches

    What a better time to start a new Pop17 show than for the YouTube NextUp program? At midnight last night, YouTube creator’s channel closed it’s application process after being extended a few days. The contest is for an initial seed funding from Google toward any content creator’s channel. Hermione Way and I decided to collaborate on this unique opportunity for the possibility of funding, but more importantly the promotion and support from YouTube. What’s the future of TV? Possibly the [...]

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  • Green and Yellow: Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Lil Wayne

    Green and Yellow: Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Lil Wayne

    If you want to summarize American culture then look to football and the Superbowl. We are so coorporate in the west that we love the ads more than the game. The Green Bay Packers win and the advertisers and commercials make history. Sketchers wins as Kim Kardashian gets steamy at the gym with her SketchUps. It wasn’t the big hit of the ads, however, little Max Page aka Darth Vater for Volkswagon was the star of the commercial show. Eminem [...]

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  • If Groupon Had Created A Great Advert For The Super Bowl…

    If Groupon Had Created A Great Advert For The Super Bowl…

    By now many of you will have heard the controversy around Groupon’s Super Bowl Advertisement (embedded below): I was shocked the first time I saw this. It was so poorly done, tasteless and down right offensive. Yet, if Groupon had created a great, non offensive Super Bowl advert, would it have made a difference? Well, it certainly would have helped them maintain a positive brand image. There is nothing worse then a poor brand association in today’s media saturated world [...]

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  • Facebook: Limitations, Live Show and 3 Blondes

    Facebook: Limitations, Live Show and 3 Blondes

    Watch live video from pop17 on Justin.tv More than 350 million people around the world are connected by Facebook. The expansive reach and six degrees of separation evolving ecosystem calls for more than 5,000 friends at a time. I have about 5,000 friends on facebook and thousands of friend requests. I can’t access the requests because they go back so far in facebook that they are not even visible for me to ignore or accept. Furthermore, when someone else tries [...]

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  • Smosh, Michael Buckley and Ze Frank ink development deals

    Smosh, Michael Buckley and Ze Frank ink development deals

    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. [...]

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  • Watch Web Shows and TV on the Internet

    Watch Web Shows and TV on the Internet

    On the streets of SoHo, I asked people to tell me about their experiences watching internet videos. One guy told me about the Max Mosley scandal video that came out as a result of YouTube. Clearly, citizen journalism is shaping what people watch. People go to the internet to watch fiction, comedy, entertainment and news. Jamison Tilsner and Josh Cohen curate, catalog and critique online shows on their website, Tilzy.tv They also blog about new developments in the developing online [...]

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