•December 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Video Fashions of All Music
Discover and buy the products, brands, and fashions being used in your favorite music videos
Basically , buy the clothes and items seen in your favorite music video’s .
•December 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment
“The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before we shot the video. It took us 7 hours of filming to get a solid take. Enjoy!”
•December 17, 2009 • Leave a Comment
“This video is from Vancouver a couple days ago. Apparently someone in the crowd threw a wallet at Cudi while he was on stage. Then Cudi jumps off stage and punches someone in the crowd over the barricade. Perez Hilton said that he punched the wrong person. I have no idea, but I suspect there is more behind this story. From what I’ve seen, Cudi doesn’t seem like the type of dude to throw punches over a wallet being thrown at him. Who throws wallets?”
Twitter Race – Improving Our Media
•April 18, 2009 • 2 CommentsProbably one of the most exciting events to ever occur in the history of the internet started this week on August 13th 2009 when Ashton Kutcher posted a video on Youtube challenging CNN to a Twitter race to the first one to hit 1 million followers. The next day Larry King representing CNN accepted the challenge by stating that one man can’t beat an entire network and jokingly telling Kutcher that CNN will “Bury him”
The entire world was logging onto Twitter and following both @aplusk and @cnnbrk. Earlier on CNN had 897,969 followers compared to Ashton who had 842,550 – about a 55,000 people difference. Both parties went straight to work and spread the word that the challenge had been made.
Everyone got involved, fellow twitter-ers spread the word on their blogs, on their twitter feeds, on Facebook and through word of mouth. Electronic Arts (EA) made an offer to give the 1,000,000th person to follow @aplusk (Kutcher) a copy of every game EA makes in 2009 for the system of their choice and a playable character based on them will be created in the Sims 3, As well EA said they would donate 5,000 mosquito nets in the name of the 1 millionth follower.
Other celebrity twitter users like P. Diddy and Ellen Degeneres chimed in and encouraged other users to follow Ashton. Last night Kutcher learned that CNN was on the air trying to recruite people and get them to follow CNN on Twitter. He retaliated by going live on his ustream channel and kept people updated.
Chartbeat was following both feeds live providing updates on the amount of followers each user had (and still is). Ashton was surrounded by his family and friends as they awaited to see who the winner would be, at this point it looked like Ashton was going to win as he was in the lead with more then 1,000 followers ahead of CNN.
As Ashton waited he spoke about how the media is changing and how the internet enables us to control what we consume. The news we see on television is controlled by the major corporations that run the studios, they are able to bend the news anyway they see fit. On the web we are able to filter out the news or content we don’t want to view and subscribe and further investigate the information we are interested about.
Ashton expressed that Twitter and other social networking websites are great because we basically are able to post and review the content we find interesting and headline the news that actually concerns us. No editing by bias corporations, and no commercials. He also mentioned his belief that television and that your household computer will one day integrate.
At around one in the morning on April 17th around 11,000 people were watching the live stream myself included. It was already quite evident who was going to get to one million first. Kutcher and his wife (Demi Moore) and friends gathered around the computer and watched the charts, but then realized that the numbers were a little bit slower then on the actual Twitter site. It got very exciting as they got the champagne ready, everyone grew tense as it came closer to the finish line. Loud shouts and clapping as Ashton reached 1,000,000 followers,
The excitement was escalated when Sean Diddy Combs (P. Diddy) called Ashton to congratulate him on his big win. He was expressing how great it was, and how much of a historical event it was. Kutcher presented the $100,000 cheque to www.nomoremalaria.org which he promised to make if he won, as well as donating 10,000 mosquito bed nets. He was on Oprah earlier speaking about his accomplishment which can be seen here. He also went on to talk to Larry King from CNN and had answered questions on ustream which can also be seen here.
Tune in sometime next week for Larry King and Ashtons one hours live segment.
The top 20 websites on the web
•April 7, 2009 • 2 Comments
I have created a list of what I believe to be the top 20 websites on the web. Well some of them are not at the top but are very useful! The list Is in no particular order.
1. Facebook – The best way to stay connected with friends and family.
2. Google – In my opinion the best online search engine available.
3. Twitter – A micro-blogging site where you tell the world what’s going on!
4. Wikipedia – The easiest and best online encyclopaedia there is!
5. Youtube – The best video sharing website to ever exist!
6. Myspace – A great way to stay on top of your favourite artists, and friends.
7. FML- Do you ever just sigh and think fuck my life”? Read and post FML stories.
8. Digg – Share links and stories and view and rate the best ones!
9. Imeem – The world’s largest social music service with millions of free streaming songs and videos
10. Howcast – The best source for fun, free, and useful how-to videos and guides.
11. Yahoo! Answers – Ask any question you want and get answers in minutes!
12. Rate my teacher – Pretty self explanatory!
13. Mapquest – Need directions? Mapquest is all you need! Exact directions anywhere in North America.
14. Urban Dictionary – A dictionary defining all slang words, add your own!
15. Hulu – Watch your favourite television program whenever you want!
16. Ebay – Buy and sell anything you need, for the prices you want!
17. Flixster – If you love movies, you’ll love Flixster. Share and rate movie reviews, never watch a bad movie again!
18. Del.icio.us – Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service.
19. The Top Tens – View and add your input to hundreds of top ten lists or create a new top ten list.
20. MSN - MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, technology, love, articles, shopping and more great content
21. Bonus – Fan Fiction – Read and write fantasy and fictional stories !
Here are some other great and very useful websites that are well worth visiting:
- Zeer – All your favourite food nutrition and ingredient information
- Easy bib – Automatic work cited and bibliography
- Concrete loop – Celebrity news and gossip – for black celebrities.
- Geni – Geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree.
- Mint – Graph up how much and what you spend your money on, finance advisor.
- Nymbler – Having trouble choosing a baby name? Get suggestions based on names you like.
- Picnik – Make your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.
- Search Me – Want to see the pages you search up on google first? View them like the cover flow option on iTunes.
- TinyUrl – Make a long URL short, great for copying links from computer to computer!
- Mobaganda – Create and update invites to events!
- Kongregate – Play awesome games for free!
- Ffffound – View and save rare and abstract photos, a must see website!
- Someecards – Ecards celebrating every kind of humerous event, the kind of ecards you’ll hesitate to send.
- Penny Arcade – Graphic novels/comics
- Carbon Ralley – Up for a challenge that will help make the world a better place?
- Free Rice – Want to improve your vocabulary or study for a test and donate rice to the poor at the same time?
- Hypebeast – Covering the latest trends!
- Kiva – Make a loan to an entrepreneur across the globe for as little as $25!
- Nibble Dish – Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world.
- WikiSky – Like google earth, but google universe!
- You Mail – A free online voicemail replacement with personal greetings. Must see for all cell phone users!
- Bugmenot – Access and share logins for websites that require you to register in order to view content.
- Mosio – A bit like Yahoo! Answers but on your mobile device! Great for solving bets!
- Jott – Send reminders, commands and texts through your voice!
- NuTsie – Upload your iTunes library online and listen to it when not on your computer!
- Text-Image – Upload an image and convert it into text!
