MySpace is now rotating presidential candidate profiles in their “Cool New People” section located in different places throughout the site including the homepage. They seem to be featuring candidate profiles that are also featured in their new political section, Impact. Kudos to MySpace for not only giving exposure to high profile candidates like Barack Obama …
The CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother has scored big wins on MySpace and YouTube by weaving storylines from the show online. Their first success is with a MySpace “fan” page for Robin Sparkles, a fake 1980’s Canadian pop star, which is the embarrassing secret alter-ego for one of the main characters. Tweet Buffer
YouTube is creating a Political Section for the presidential candidates. There are lots of creative ways to use YouTube to reach people. Here are 5 1/2 ways for the campaigns to take advantage of this unique opportunity by creating and uploading videos specifically for the YouTube community. 1. First off the big one: Do not …
It’s ironic that Yahoo! hired Lloyd Braun from ABC to create new in-house content just as user generated content took off. The only thing that really came out of Braun’s division was The 9 then he was gone. But that doesn’t mean Yahoo! has given up on original programming. They’re launching a new video project …
Last week Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama launched his own social network, MyBarakObama. There’s been a lot of discussion as to who made this and how well it works. I’m not really concerned with either. What I’m wondering is: Why was this made? MyBarakObama offers features already available on free sites like MeetUp, MySpace and …
New NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker blasted Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday, complaining YouTube wasn’t doing enough to stop users from uploading copyrighted clips of NBC shows such as Saturday Night Live: “YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants …
