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Link Post for July 12th through July 16th

July 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for July 12th through July 16th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • DA Withdraws iPhone 4 Warrant, Returns Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s Possessions – The iPhone 4 may be available to the general public, but the police investigation into the leaked device that Gizmodo purchased last spring is still going strong. Now there’s been a new development: the EFF reports that the San Mateo District Attorney has withdrawn the warrant it used to search Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house last April, when it confiscated multiple computers, hard drives, and other electronics.
  • U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs | TorrentFreak – After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result.
  • How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made – How do you take the social web by storm in a day, winning over even the coldest of hearts and gaining international acclaim – with commercials?
  • Man Claims Ownership of Facebook – WSJ.com – A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, following a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84% stake in the social-networking company.
  • Two Guys Conquer YouTube For Profit And Glory – I call them the YouTube cowboys: two guys who are rough around the edges, not obeying anyone’s rules, and steadfastly doing well by doing their own thing; they are crushing it. These relatively new YouTube channel owners are not just dominating their genre, they are often spanking the biggest brands in the world, bringing in hundreds of thousands of views to their content every day.
  • Make Your Own Rechargeable, Water-Powered Battery – We've covered how to make a beer battery before, but if you've yet to get into the home brewing scene, you can make a smaller battery with a copper rod and a bit of water or vinegar.
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Link Post for April 6th through April 7th

April 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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Link Post for March 31st through April 1st

April 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 31st through April 1st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Six ways Gmail revolutionized e-mail – CNN.com – Thursday marks the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail.
  • Our Choice: The Funniest April Fools Jokes – It’s that date again, folks. If you’ve seen an amazing new service or something that sounds too good to be true, it probably is — very few companies take April 1 seriously. Reports of April Fools jokes are pouring in; as we do every year, we’ll mention the ones that are either very funny or amazingly clever.
  • April Fools 2010 From Google & Others – Today is a worst/best day for journalists or bloggers, depending on your worldview: April Fools Day. Many technology companies come out and try to fool people with fake or funny news. Below is a collection of, what appears to be, April Fools Day hoaxes from Google and other search related companies for the day. I do hope to continue to update it throughout the day.
  • Q&A: Personal vs. Professional Branding in Social MEdia – Dan Schwabel is not only a personal branding expert, he’s someone I’ve come to know and respect over the years…and definitely someone I consider a friend. We recently sat down to discuss Engage and the resulting interaction culminated in a wonderful discussion that explored the state of professional and personal branding in the era of new media.
  • TweetDeck Taps TwitVid For Video Sharing, Replacing 12seconds – TweetDeck is switching its default video Tweeting platform today, from 12seconds to TwitVid. TwitVid.com will serve as the video service across all existing TweetDeck products, as well as all new products released by TweetDeck in 2010
  • Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation – Today, Unvarnished makes its beta debut. It’s essentially Yelp for LinkedIn: any user can create an online profile for a professional and submit anonymous reviews. You can claim your profile, but unlike LinkedIn, you have to accept every post, warts and all. And once the profile is up there’s no taking it down.
  • YouTube Blog: Latest Changes to Video Page: New Playlist Experience, Integrated Comments & More – The video page overhaul that's underway now is one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history. It's been a month since we offered a sneak peek of the new look and functionality, and in that time we've been gathering your feedback, looking at data, and tweaking elements to ensure that the page is as clean and useful as it can be.
  • YouTube Blog: The Video Page Gets a Makeover – From the Queen of England to the queen of your 'hood, from aspiring filmmakers to Hollywood studios, from high school graduation videos to citizen reports of revolutionary moments in Iran, it all has a home on YouTube. This creates a really big challenge: how do we design a site that reflects so many different users, experiences and videos? This is a question we've thought about a lot since we launched in 2005. The result of some of this thinking (some might say over-thinking) is a video page chock-full of features that reflect a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but can feel cluttered and a little overwhelming. We've spent a lot of time over the last 10 months asking ourselves some tough questions about this page and posing some of those questions to you in blog posts, roundtable discussions, one-on-one conversations with the community and even on forums like our Product Ideas for YouTube page
  • YouTube To Roll Out New Design For All Video Pages Today – A YouTube partner just forwarded us an e-mail he received from the Google company, stating that all videos will be transitioned to the newly designed page some time today.
  • Less Than One Third Of Tweets Come From The United States, Study Says – Paris-based Semiocast, which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has again done a study on Twitter usage. After finding that only 50% of tweets are in English, based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets, the company has now looked at nearly five times as many Twitter messages in order to gain more insight on the increased international presence of the popular micro-sharing service.
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Link Post for March 22nd

March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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Pants On The Ground Video Goes Viral – Gets Remixed – The Power of the Viral Video [NSFW]

January 24, 2010 By 1 Comment

Props to Mashable for their write up on the latest remix of the General Larry Pratt American Idol viral video.

When the American Idol team hit Atlanta, a few weeks ago, it was expected that there was going to be some crazy stuff happening, but Pratt’s appearance made those, often painful auditions, worth watching.

Pratt came on American Idol and took the Internet viral video bandwagon to new heights with his song Pants on the Ground. Now as Barb Dybwab at Mashable points out, the video itself was already a viral hit, but with the recent influx of remixes, it has taken on a new type of legitimacy online.

When do you know a new internet meme has reached true legitimacy? A remix involving Auto-Tune passes 100k views on YouTube.The original Pants on the Ground already got some cover treatment from Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young and keep-your-day-job Brett Favre, and you can of course even pick up a t-shirt at this point.

The remix by YouTube user TimothyDeLaGhetto2 is definitely not safe for work, but is totally worth a listen.

What can we learn from this video and others like it

“Pants on the Ground” is an excellent example of how something as silly, yet catchy, can become an Internet phenomenon and meme. It has a good beat and the lyrics are simple and easy to build upon. This video went viral, partially with the help of American Idol, but mainly because of the character, Pratt, who brought the song to life.

How can a company use viral videos to pitch product or get a message out

So how can a company create a video with the same viral potential? Simple, think outside of the box. The whole idea of social media. viral videos especially, is breaking from the traditional cookie cutter mode and giving people something they will want to talk about and pass around.

If your video is passed around because of it’s wow, weird, strange, or bizarre factor that means your message will as well.

Check out the remixed video below. Remember it’s NSFW. Post your thoughts in the comments.

Seth Goldstein is the owner of Goldstein Media LLC a Web Design and Internet Marketing firm in suburban Philadelphia. Having been a journalist for more than 4 years prior to his adventures on the Web, Seth is always looking for new ways to put his journalism training to good use. Seth is the co-editor of A2SM and the co-host of the A2SM podcast. You can check out his personal blog at www.sethgoldstein.net and his company’s site at www.goldsteinmedia.com. Seth’s on Twitter as @sethgoldstein.

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Link Post for January 14th

January 14, 2010 By 1 Comment

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Link Post for January 13th through January 14th

January 14, 2010 By 1 Comment

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Link Post for December 18th

December 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Link Post for December 6th

December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 6th:

  • Web Community Photoshops a Happy Memory [PICS] – A Reddit Member’s mother died. The community comes together to help him out with a lasting memory.
  • Appvent Calendar: Free iPhone Game Every Day Till Christmas – Last week, we wrote about 24ways, an advent calendar for web geeks. Today we’ve found another cool advent calendar, this time aimed at iPhone app fans. iPhone developer Blacksmith Games is presenting the Appvent Calendar!
  • 10 iPhone Apps to Help You Survive the Holidays -
  • We know it’s not Photoshopped: Wrecking ball smashed van in New York City – but is it real? – Shiny Objects – Time to play “Guess the authenticity!” the latest soon-to-be viral video shows a van getting housed on a New York City corner. It wanders seemingly accidentally through a construction zone to meet the business end of a wrecking ball (can a ball have an end?).
  • Car Flipped By Wrecking Ball, Real or Fake? [Viral Videos] – A recent video on YouTube, which shows a car hit by a large wrecking ball, is fast approaching viral status on the site.
  • Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia Detractor for Saying He’s Gay – Search Google for Ron Livingston, the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a Wikipedia page on the movie and TV star, with inaccurate details on his personal life. And that’s the problem.Since May, Livingston has continually fallen victim to an anonymous Wikipedia (Wikipedia) detractor who continually edits the entry to read that the actor is in a gay relationship.
  • How To Find Those Red Balloons – This morning DARPA launched ten red balloons across the U.S. in a Network Challenge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet. The first team to correctly locate all ten balloons will win a $40,000 prize.
  • TC50 DemoPit Startup LIFEmee Lets You Record And Share Your Entire Life Online – LIFEmee allows you to store, manage and share all significant aspects and events of your life: Your daily health condition, relationships, jobs, schools, possessions, hobbies, family members, pictures, notes etc. etc. The main idea is to give users a platform for organizing their lives online by collecting and structuring this kind of information for lifetime use. Users can not only review all data they fed into their “lifestream” (all data aligned along a time line) in retrospect but also lay out their plans for the future. The information can be shared or kept strictly private.
  • Favrd Shuts Down – Not Twitter’s Last Laugh (Thank you, Textism) – Favrd, a site which aggregated the most popular starred tweets, has closed down. The site was a favorite of Twitter humorists, people who use Twitter mainly to express their wit. Favrd was the first of its kind to repurpose Twitter favorites (stars) into an aggregation site, where users could see who had “faved” their tweets, view tweets with 3 or more faves as a real-time feed, and check the most faved tweets in a 24-hour period on the Leaderboard. It was kind of like the Techmeme of funny tweets.
  • Getting it right and getting it wrong with the new media – The internet (the blogosphere to be precise) is still a bit of a mystery to many in tech and entertainment. It’s weird to think that companies whose job it is to reach tech-savvy consumers aren’t using this tool correctly, but it’s also no secret that the biggest and most influential companies are often the slowest to adapt. At any rate, they’re learning, but some are learning faster than others. Here I chronicle just a few standout cases.
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Dancing Doctors Raise Awareness of Breast Cancer and go Viral

December 4, 2009 By 3 Comments

200+  doctors, nurses and hospital staffers of Providence St. Vincent Center in Oregon produced a great video to promote and raise money for Breast Cancer awareness. The video has now gone viral getting more than 2.8 million views on Youtube and across the social media space. Set to the music of Jay Sean’s hit song, “Down,” this video is a great example of how a video, an idea and a great cause can make a video go viral.

Check it out Below:

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