Well it didn’t take long for a video made using Chatroulette to rocket to the top of the Viral Video Chart.
The video stars a “freestyling” piano player by the name of Merton who effortlessly serenades the random strangers he is partnered with.
Be warned, there are two swears in the video but overall it’s clean fun, not to mention a great example of using new technology to build a following.
Case in point: This video was posted only 6 days ago on YouTube and it already has over 2 million views, not to mention the PianoChatImprov’s Channel is pushing close to 90,000 subscribers as of this posting.
Benny Evangelista at the San Francisco Chronicle shares stats from Compete Inc., which show Facebook surpassing Google as the top traffic referrer to sites such as Yahoo and MSN.
Eric A. Taub at The New York Times tells us about advances in mobile digital TV, with eight Washington D.C. television stations beginning to broadcast mobile DTV signal this April.
Today, more than ever, social media is being embraced by mainstream news networks.
Yesterday President Obama took part in an exclusive interview, his first since last week’s State of the Union address. But the interviewer was not from a major news network. In fact, the president’s interviewer wasn’t just one person; he was interviewed by people from across the country.
Moderated by Steve Grove of YouTube, President Obama addressed questions picked from more than 11,000 questions submitted to and voted on by YouTube users. Here’s the interview:
According to a YouTube blog post, the process of choosing what questions to ask the president was unique:
“To try to get as many question[sic] in as possible, we had a section called “Good idea/Bad idea” in which we tried to solicit short responses from the President on ideas you sent in that might not be presented to him in traditional interviews. And in all cases, we tried to select the top questions that would solicit conversation, lead to substantive answers, and hadn’t been asked in previous programs we’ve had with the President.”
If you have ever felt like you have a hard time understanding where your government stands on certain issues, it’s becoming easier than ever to find out. YouTube’s blogger says, “We hope this interview brings us one step closer to creating better access to your government through YouTube.”
Posted by Leah Singer on January 26, 2010 at 11:44 am
Not only do kids these days worry about their reputations while in the school lunchroom, they also worry about who’s saying what about them online. And as traffic to social media networks continues to skyrocket, cyberbullying has become an ever-growing concern.
According to the StopCyberbulling.org website, cyberbullying can be so detrimental that children have committed suicide over what’s been said about them online. Remember Megan Meier?
To address this growing concern, YouTube, the National Crime Prevention Council, and Circle of Respect recently came together to create a YouTube “video” telling people to “think before they comment.” The video also informs viewers to report cyberbullying at the YouTube Safety Center.
Other social media networks like Facebook and MySpace have resources available where people can report cyberbullying and abuse too.
What are your thoughts concerning cyberbullying today? Is there enough awareness?
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch tells us that the CEO of Yelp suddenly walked away from late stage negotiations with Google over the weekend. Google was hoping to acquire the social reviews site for around $550 million.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land takes a closer look at Google’s new real-time search results in the wake of actress Brittany Murphy’s death this weekend.
Chris Testa at YouTube highlights a new feature at the video sharing network “that pushes the YouTube videos your friends are embedding on Facebook back to your YouTube homepage.”
