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Here is a quick post because my readers demand it ;) But seriously, thanks for the “push” – always nice to know that people want more :)
Well… related to my previous post How To Create A Viral Video – I ran into this series called Viral Video Film School. It’s a bit silly and sarcastic [...]

I just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6 and it has a lot of cool new features like photo captions, live theme previews and post revisions (similar to what you might be familiar with in Google docs). While reading the release post on the WordPress development blog I noticed this at the bottom of the [...]

Wondering how you can make the Top 10 Most Viral Videos list? Check out this video I found about how to create a popular viral video:

Mine’s doing great, got over a million hits and it just landed me a job at a hot new media firm.
Specific areas include:

Filming yourself sitting at your desk
Hurting yourself
Hurting others
Using [...]

I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) – pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

(via iJustine)
This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

Happy holidays and a happy new year. At the end of the year people often look back over what happened that year. I think viral videos are fascinating – how a video travels around the world through word-of-mouth or click-of-link from person to person until millions of people have seen it. Sometimes this is just [...]

I just saw this funny but also interesting video (via ze frank):
Goodie Bag TV – Americans Love Lists

It’s true – lists are very popular online and I suspect people often write all kind of lists primarily as link bait – and it often works (to some degree). People like short, to-the-point bullet points that give [...]

I’m pretty sure all blog owners want more traffic to their blog – More traffic can mean more sales, more clicks on your ads, new clients, higher advertising rates, etc. I’m always looking for new ways to get more people reading my blog. I’ve written before about Getting More People To Read Your Blog – [...]

Drum roll, please… and the winner of my Technorati Top 100 contest is… Well, just for fun I decided to record the process of picking the winner – using this random number generator. So, see for yourself:

More details after the jump.

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Seth Godin is a pretty well known marketer and he’s got a great blog. There he regularly posts insightful tips/articles/news regarding marketing or just business in general. Recently I’ve noticed that he’s been hinting at some business opportunities that could be profitable:

Create a niche “interesting videos” site – Sort of a TV Guide for YouTube. [...]