Famo class of Fall 2007
Famo class of Fall 2008

Offered in Parsons graduate Design & Technology program, Internet Famous Class is dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. It's also the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.

Our Famotron software measures the online attention economy — view counts, blog links, social media activity, followers and their influence — and awards students their final letter grade. more...

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A Brief History of Star Wars Kid

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Andy Baio from Waxy.org published a thorough analysis of his traffic and referral stats from 2003, when he broke Star Wars Kid Ghyslain Raza and the Internet went apeshit. I’ve been digging into my original server logs from the Star Wars Kid debacle, five years after I played a major role in what some say [...]

New vid scams itself to #1 YouTube Most Viewed of All-Time?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Fan-made music video Alcohol-vs-Hot-Hot-Sex overtakes Evolution of Dance as YouTube’s #1 Most Viewed Video of All-Time…. but is it legit? Waxy investigates… If you look at the ratio of views-to-ratings, you’ll see the CSS video has a very unusual 21,487-to-1 ratio… the average ratio for every other video in the top 10 is a more [...]

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