Here Comes Another Bubble?
It's been awfully quiet in WebWorld lately. Labels: Billy Joel, parody, Richter Scales, Silicon Valley, Spoof, Viral Video, Web 2.0
No aggressive major recent acquisitions. Consistent strong share values. Maturing market-leading brand name web destinations. No new loud threats from hyped upstarts as the next new great thing online.
Thanks to websites like Google, Facebook and many others, web valuations are through the roof, just like the financial marketplace saw during the portal heydays of AOL and Yahoo! in the late 90s.
A spoofing group from Silicon Valley called The Richter Scales have put together a parody video reworking Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" openly wondering (or stating in a backhanded way) that the Web is poised for another bubble burst.
Which begs the question: if too many people blog about a possible Web 2.0 bubble, will the Web become its own version of a celebrity meltdown?
posted by Unknown @ Tuesday, December 04, 2007,
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Get Approval First: A Few Good Creative Men
New media challenges the power and effectiveness of traditional advertising. One thing remains true when deciding which brand building platform to use: make sure you get your approvals first before you "court" public opinion and spend those ad dollars. Labels: A Few Good Men, Ad dollars, Advertising, Creative, Jack, Marketing, parody, Spoof, Tom Cruise, Viral Video
posted by Unknown @ Saturday, October 13, 2007,
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The Joys of Drawing With MS Paint?
Labels: applications, brilliant, Digital, freeloveforum, geeks, Humor, MS Paint, satire, software, Spoof
Some Sunday funnies for you...just found this wacky satire from freeloveforum reviewing the joys of MS Paint, where apparently the world is turning digital, the future is now and the future is in the past at the same time. In case you'd like to catch up, consider the amazing MS Paint to help get you there (tutorial here).
How? Make sure you follow that squiggly-drawn circle you draw with your mouse. Really! Or simply use that fancy erase tool if you get lost and start again.
Brilliant!
The media trend? User-generated viral video content -- especially ironic humor -- remains frequently smarter and more funny than what we get from TV.
posted by Unknown @ Sunday, August 19, 2007,
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Alanis Morissette "My Humps" video single: Ironic spoof?
Labels: Alanis Morissette, blogs, Ironic, Music video, My Humps, parody, Radio, Spoof, Viral Video, YouTube
Hand back in pocket, Alanis Morissette -- one ironic woman who gets the joke and appreciates a good parody spoof (nee Kevin Smith) -- uploaded a new video "single" this afternoon on YouTube.
But is it a real single...or is it just ironic comeback? Will radio pick it up? Or does it play better as a viral video? Does it matter?
The blogs already love it. 7:30pm update: Technorati lists 344 websites (with a bullet!) linking to the video. Another 4 hours later: Now it has a quarter million YouTube views. All for a parody video that would make Weird Al proud. Next afternoon update: Almost a million views and nearly 2000 Technorati websites pointing to the parody. Think Fergie's a fan?
4/4 evening update:: More than 1.8 million views on YouTube (plus the views on the 2800+ Technorati linked blogs.
A dozen years ago, her "scorned lover" attitude scored a hit with "You Oughta Know". Now she is "humpingly ironic" with a new cover take on the Black Eyed Peas (with Fergie) hit "My Humps".
You just might find this Alanis version about junk in the trunk sticky in your brain...
YouTube link
posted by Unknown @ Monday, April 02, 2007,
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Radio Radio -- Sell Those Ads!
Found this crazy (clever?) webpage that gave me a quick "state of the radio union" laugh, enough to "make me wanna weep, make me wanna holler" (double click to view full size): Labels: Internet, Media, RadioRadio, Spoof
When Elvis Costello sang about "Radio radio", did he imagine this future as today's reality?
posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, February 28, 2007,
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