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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Week In Famo #8

Greetings all, and welcome again to the Week In Famo, live from Hong Kong.

Digg:

#1 with 8644 diggs, and a whopping 2557 comments, I can’t imagine a President being named Obama:

Sneaky Restaurant Fail (alt. title: Bad Wall Design) claims 5739 Diggs.

They’ll never know puts 5012 in the bag:

Not surprising that the majority of the top 20 involve the presidential race (yawn). Can’t wait till we get back to slip-n-falls and cat videos.

Moving over to youtube:

Blatant middle frame grab action clocks in almost a million views on this rather lame McCain Palin rap:

Bigger than the Colin Powell endorsement was the return of the WASSSSUUP boys (2 million views and counting):

When politics is ruining your internet waves it’s always a good time to head over to break.com….. of the top 16 most viewed videos of the week only 1 has to do with the election.

The number one most viewed video of the week on break is, “Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man” (2 millions views +):

Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man – Watch more free videos

In honor of Prof. Dub’s reporting on the FAIL, I thought we’d do a new series called FAILING IN FAMO.

The 14th most viewed Break video of the week was a fail:

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons – Watch more free videos

This is the all time most viewed FAIL video on break:

Fail – Watch more free videos

And the all time most viewed “EPIC FAIL” video on youtube (not sure if this really qualifies, you’ll have to as the prof):

The top 4 all time most dugg “EPIC FAIL” posts on Digg:

#1: English Language Epic Fail! [PIC] :

#2: Burger King epic FAIL [PIC]:

#3: Epic Fail: Palin can’t answer softball question on security

#4: Burger King: Out of Meet? (meat) [PIC]:

Burger King scoring 2 of the top 4 EPIC FAIL slots on Digg.

And the most popular EPIC FAIL images from a google images search:

For some famo reading homework, A Decade of Internet Superstars: Where Are They Now?, is a good overview of friends of famo past.

Over the top nerdy pumpkins is a no brainer famo win:

Buzzfeed brings us:

For more in famo reading assignments, Online Video Contest Guy makes $200,000 in cash and prizes from videos….. and you thought all you could get was an ‘A’?

And I will leave you with the most internet famo (infamo?) moment of the week, and ask you only this………. FAIL?

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