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Top Facebook Pages: All-Time vs. Today’s Top Gainers
July 30, 2009 – 9:31 pm | 310 Comments
Top Facebook Pages: All-Time vs. Today’s Top Gainers

InsideFacebook’s PageData tool is useful in understanding trends in Facebook usage, marketing and pop-culture. It is also a powerful way to track a brand’s success on Facebook – and if they are engaging in marketing …

Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding
July 26, 2009 – 5:28 pm | 258 Comments
Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding

In less than a week, Youtube’s hit video “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has been viewed over seven million times (and nearly 1.5m times in the last 24 hours).
So what does that look like on …

YouTube Immediately Boosts Sales of Chris Brown’s Forever
July 25, 2009 – 6:25 pm | 205 Comments
YouTube Immediately Boosts Sales of Chris Brown’s Forever

Much has been made of YouTube’s ability to monetize… but the most viewed video of the week (the JK Wedding Entrance Dance) clearly drove sales – boosting Chris Brown’s ‘Forever’ into the seventh most purchased …

iPhone 3GS Video & Camera Demo: Using MLB.tv
June 20, 2009 – 4:36 pm | 329 Comments
iPhone 3GS Video & Camera Demo: Using MLB.tv

Oh how technology and digital media have advanced. Below is a video demonstration:
- capturing an HD broadcast of a live Red Sox game (streamed from MLB.tv, through my computer, and onto the television)
- the video …

McDonalds McCafe Takes Over YouTube
May 5, 2009 – 8:39 pm | 194 Comments
McDonalds McCafe Takes Over YouTube

McDonalds has launched an advertising campaign alongside their new McCafe coffee line. You’ve likely seen the new McCafe spots during prime time television and today McDonalds overtook YouTube’s homepage (see screenshots below).
The campaign is interesting …

2008 Music Mashed Up by DJ Earworm
January 1, 2009 – 11:27 am | 357 Comments
2008 Music Mashed Up by DJ Earworm

All of 2008′s pop music mashed up into one four minute video. Not only is the music compilation done well – the video mashing and new YouTube HD look terrific.
DJ Earworm – United State …

Hulu’s Lazy Sunday: Family Guy & Saturday Night Live Clips?
December 31, 2008 – 2:48 pm | 292 Comments
Hulu’s Lazy Sunday: Family Guy & Saturday Night Live Clips?

I love Hulu.
Hulu understands the web, delivers great quality, the experience is simple, and understands both search and portability…. better than any other video site on the web.
When YouTube hit it big, much credit …

2009 Predictions: Online Video Habits Will Grow Behind Hulu
December 22, 2008 – 5:37 pm | 349 Comments
2009 Predictions: Online Video Habits Will Grow Behind Hulu

This is the first in the twenty-part series of my “2009 Digital Media Predictions”… with twenty predictions of course. Each segment is going to add color to one of the predictions from the initial list. …

Widgetbox’s New Partner Networks
December 7, 2008 – 7:25 pm | 206 Comments
Widgetbox’s New Partner Networks

Widgetbox has launched what we are billing as our Partner Networks platform. The Networks enable publishers of all sizes to rapidly create custom, branded widgets that merge content across multiple sources, authors and feeds.
The …

Amid Layoff Speculation, Google Ramps GMail Advertising
November 24, 2008 – 6:41 pm | 424 Comments
Amid Layoff Speculation, Google Ramps GMail Advertising

Google has covered Techmeme, VentureBeat, WebGuild, and others today amidst speculation that Google layoffs are coming… and 10,000 workers are affected.
Whether those rumors are wholly true (my clear hunch: no), I’ve noticed another clear economic …

New SocialFeed Widget (…Your FriendFeed Widget-ized)
May 1, 2008 – 11:15 am | 213 Comments

Yesterday Scoble unveiled his new blog theme and the resounding feedback among the 150+ comments was positive… and how’d he create that FriendFeed widget?
For those web 2.0 users, Widgetbox has a new widget that aggregates …

YouTube RickRolls April Fools In
March 31, 2008 – 7:32 pm | 251 Comments

In general, I don’t understand why April Fools jokes on the internet have begun on March 31st – but apparently that’s now standard. I also struggle with April Fools internet ‘jokes’ because they are mostly …