What a wild ride 2013 was, huh? So many memes, so many funny tweets, so many things on the Internet that infuriated us and made us think very hard about each other and also ourselves....
Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen's viral hit "Call Me Maybe" has been nominated for Song of the Year for the 2013 Grammy Awards. Does this surprise you? The song garnered more than 351,000,000 page views on YouTube which helped catapult it to the 14th most-watched YouTube video ever after teen heart throb Justin Bieber tweeted about it.
Filmmaker Casey Neistat loves Instagram. He loves it so much he made this YouTube video to tell you why. And he offers up, in plain sight, some tips for what Instagram really is and how to use it. Think of your yellowing photo albums circa the mid-1980s. Now think of those albums on someone else's smart phone. Get it?
American psychos and their online footprints, blocking your friends' annoying baby photos, texting for dollars, YouTube saves the Olympics, mobile shopping habits and what is the Internet? That's what people are talking about online this week. Come join the conversation.
As a 12 year old, Jeremiah McDonald wanted to talk to his future self. It was a crazy idea. So, he made a video of himself talking to his future self. Flash forward to 2012 and Jeremiah is a filmmaker. He edits in the video of himself at 12 talking to him today.
If you've thought 'That Gotye Song' has been played so much that it "should be our national anthem," you're not alone. Kyle Kaplan and Nick Braun, best known as Michael Bernstein and Cameron Jones of the short-lived ABC Family sitcom '10 Things I Hate About You', star as every single person on Earth when Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" suddenly comes on the radio.
The past year saw a lot of changes in social media. Google's social site, Google+, saw huge growth and more activity, LinkedIn really got in the game, and Pinterest continued to pull in more traffic and more sales. Visuals also really became front and center and led the way for infographics, Vine video, and Instagram. To some degree, however, we're still finding our way in social. So many sites, so little time...
Here's the one. The one that will join the Daisy Girl/Mushroom Cloud, Willie Horton and Swift Boats when we talk about political ads in the future. Writer, director and actress Lena Dunham equates voting for the first time with another big first. It should be "amazing" and girls, it should be with a guy "who cares about and understands women.
This summer’s pop hit, Carly Rae Jepsen’s cheerfully flirty “Call Me Maybe,” shows how much the hitmaking machine, and the music industry, has been upended by social media.
You may know YouTube primarily for its awesome sports highlights, classic TV clips and popular music videos, all of which are offered on-demand in easily clickable playback format. But the 2012 Olympics represent the service’s biggest live streaming effort ever. The Games also offer a window into the changing nature of online video and where YouTube is headed next.
Cell phones in the toilet, foul balls to the chest, new uses for old payphones, that annoying Gotye song, a Silicon Valley reality show and light up prayer mats that let you know you're facing Mecca. We don't make this stuff up. Find out what people are talking about online this week and join the conversation, preferably from somewhere else besides a toilet seat.
When was the last time you went out to a movie theater to see a movie? How often have you heard about a movie and said, "I'll rent it" (or "get it on Netflix")?
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