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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 [...]

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 was just checking out Technorati’s Top 100 Most Favorited list (maybe Top 99 is more appropriate because now they’re only showing the top 99 blogs, anyways…) and I finally saw my blog there :) I’m #99 because 213 members have made this blog a favorite – I want to thank all those people for [...]

Blog memes are pretty cool – I think the viral aspect of them is quite interesting. It looks like Collis over at North X East has tagged me in a meme started by The Paper Bull called “If I Could Only Read 5 blogs”.
That’s a hard one… I subscribe to a few dozen blogs and [...]

Finally! I was just visiting my blog and noticed something new – a green bar on the Live PageRank extension that I have installed on Firefox. Because I launched this blog just after (or around) the previous PageRank update I hadn’t gotten a public PageRank yet. The front page of this blog is now [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]

Last week I decided to join MyBlogLog. I’ve seen more and more people using MyBlogLog over the last few months and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Also, since Yahoo was willing to pay $10 million for MyBlogLog it might be useful.
The most recognizable feature of MyBlogLog is the “recent readers” widget [...]