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Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb/Hitwise sez: Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market [...]

Selling a Twitter account: how much are my friends worth?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last weekend Andrew Baron put his Twitter account (and its 1600 followers) for sale on eBay. Account sales happens all the time in World of Warcraft. Selling customer lists is semi-standard practice among headhunters, and last year a Top 100 Digger attempted to sell his account. But Andrew’s Twitter account sale is stirring up a [...]

There’s no money in Internet video

Monday, April 14th, 2008

YouTube series Break A Leg weighs in on trying to make a living in the world of straight-to-YouTube: With over 2 million views on YouTube, we’ve received roughly $1,600 from their Partner Program. We also over half a million views at YouTube competitor Blip.tv, worth a whopping $100. Finally another competitor MetaCafe featured us on [...]

Get famo and be on TV with Paris Hilton

Friday, April 11th, 2008

MTV is 5 days into parisbff.com, where you, yes you, can fight to become BFF-4-LIFE w/ Paris Hilton by amassing votes… lots of votes. Create a site profile and accumulate votes. The more popular you are the greater your chance of getting on the show! Pretty smart — pre-selling viewers for an American Idol-style run-off. [...]

How to Buy YouTube Views

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Evan Roth ran an experiment during class last semester: how many hits will $150 buy you? The rough data’s in: about 57k uniques on the page =~ about 44k views on the embedded YouTube video. The video in question being a screencast of the purchase, of course. More info: This was an experiment we did [...]

South Park buttrolls the world in quest for Internet fame

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Last week’s episode of South Park: Butters covers Samwell’s Feb. 2007 smash-hit “What What (In The Butt)” (aka the buttroll) The boys then head to the Department of Internet Money attempting to collect their cash, and meet some of our old friends in the process… via borna and epic-fu

Wear your Twitter stats

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Aram Bartholl, the man who knows no boundaries, is organizing a “group-performance/conference-intervention” for the upcoming re:publica conference in Berlin called “Follow Me!”: folks will be swapping buttons w/ their Twitter avatars on it — real-world data visualization of who you’re “following” at the conference. Bartholl’s previously made IRL-vs.-internets news with real-world Google map markers and [...]

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