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19 Mar 2010

The Onion has come out with a parody video in which YouTube entreats its users to make a “good” video — the incentive? A $100,000 prize.

As someone who spends much of her day wading through the chaff of the online video realm, can I just say: Could this be a real thing now please?

Check out the video below and be sure to share some of your favorite YouTube vids in the comments.

That’s what you’re doing at the moment, no? Watching YouTube videos? Don’t front — it’s Friday.

Tags: humor, the onion, viral video, youtube

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Tags: chaff, humor, Onion, parody, vids, viral video, youtube videos

Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts

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3 Feb 2010

Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That’s not the case with Blippy.

Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service’s ability to show everyday purchases at places such as Wendy’s.

Humor aside, this appearance is a huge win for Blippy, which recently raised its first round of funding, and is now signing deals with retailers.

Will Colbert Nation embrace Blippy? Sadly, YouTube is apparently smart enough to know that the Colbert Report is something they shouldn’t allow you to embed, so I’ll have to link to it — here.

Update: And YouTube has now completely removed the video. Wow, they’re good.

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Tags: appearance, colbert report, comedy central, credit card data, everyday purchases, humor, mainstream spotlight, stephen colbert, Wendy

Never Miss a Call While Rocking Your Spandex Phubby [VIDEO]

In: web resources

9 Jan 2010

Someone over at CES had to have had a twisted sense of humor to allow The Phubby — a “wrist cubby” for your phone — to grace the showcase this year.

The product almost seems like a joke, especially since the website describes it as merging “new age fabrics and the design features of a marsupial.” (No word, however, on what these “new age fabrics” are — they appear to be spandex and mesh. If that equates new age, we’ve apparently zapped ourselves back to a particularly tragic point in the mid-’90s.)

Still, the Phubby seems to be legit. There’s even a video describing how it works. Warning: Extreme attempts to sexify this product have been taken — this video contains sexy girls in bikinis, rocker chicks, high-powered Wall Street dudes, and the sweet, sweet crooning of Tommy Tutone.

Great. Just what the world needs: Another (lamer) method by which we can be literally tethered to our cell phones 24/7. Now I have no excuse for not calling my mother back.

[via recombu.com]

Tags: CES 2010, gadgets, humor, tech, viral video