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iSaw you save a tree

poolcleaner (http://viral.videosift.com/member/poolcleaner) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:44:14 -0700

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http://www.usbchainsaw.com/

I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to plug a chainsaw in through USB?

- poolcleaner

The Top 40 Real Men of Genius commercials

ant (http://viral.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:20:52 -0700

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http://www.epiccarnival.com/2009/07/top-40-real-men-of-genius-commercials.html from http://digg.com/comedy/The_Top_40_Real_Men_of_Genius_commercials ...

- ant

It was bound to happen...

laura (http://viral.videosift.com/member/laura) — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:33:28 -0700

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New definition of viral ad. Learned about this from a friend on facebook:
"Go to www.cnet.com and turn the sound on on the Apple commercial ... go now before they take it down!"

- laura

What mythical creature would you ride into battle on?

Fusionaut (http://fusionaut.videosift.com) — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:51:25 -0700

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Definitely a winged manatee for me.

And don't say something boring like a unicorn or a dragon.

- Fusionaut

*viral needs to go

xxovercastxx (http://viral.videosift.com/member/xxovercastxx) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:50:41 -0700

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Having just taken a quick look through the viral channel, I felt it was time to renew my hatred of said channel. It's time to get rid of it or get it an owner; one who can read, hopefully.

Looking through the first couple pages of videos, it appears that approximately 1/3rd of the videos in this channel actually belong in this channel.

Maybe changing the channel name/invocation to *viralad would help? I'm now thinking the 4.0 rollout should include something that makes it more evident what channels are for.

- xxovercastxx

i want to make Fail channel how is this done im to stupid

westy (http://viral.videosift.com/member/westy) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:59:28 -0800

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please help me make a fail chanel ore is there one #? what dose it take to set it up,?

- westy

Viral videos need truth-in-advertising

joedirt (http://viral.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:43:52 -0800

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Finally someone agrees with me on the horrible state of b.s. viral ads that plague the intertubes.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/11/ad-watchdog-sla.html

Well, the fun is over. Today, a short five months after the videos were revealed as a phony, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus released a statement (PDF) that whips a ruler across the knuckles of Cardo Systems, the company that released the videos.

- joedirt

Nintendo Comes Up With Clever Video To Showcase Wario

Zonbie (http://zonbie.videosift.com) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:59:55 -0700

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Wario Land : Shake It! Footage here will take you to YouTube, for something that make me laugh! Is well worth looking at even if you don't like Wario Mario etc, this is clever marketing at its best

You cannot really do the clip justice if you just post it you see
Have a look!

~~Update : It looks like it does not work well in Google's Chrome Browser - Does not work for me at least~~

Another Update : Looks like recent updates to Google Chrome means it now works there too Works for me there now as well!

- Zonbie

Tonight's MythBuster's episode is on viral videos.

ant (http://viral.videosift.com/member/ant) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:06:18 -0700

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We have all these videos on VS I think.

Lift a car using fire hoses.
Fainting goats.
Sawdust cannon.
Invisible water.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/video/multiangle/multiangle.html has a multiangle view of the flying car ending.

- ant

Annotated/ad-laden/hijacked videos

Eklek (http://eklek.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:29:39 -0700

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As you may have noticed, the embeds from YouTube currently (in the beginning they did not) allow the display of annotations. So apart from the placement of introductory leaders (e.g. videos from ONN) or a logo/URL in a corner (e.g. viral sites who take content from others without attribution) there are now more ways to add subjective opinions / advertising to a video.

I'm against the addition of subjective opinions / advertising as I think they interfere with the viewing experience.
The only 2 exceptions for me:
1. when - at the moment of posting - there's no other alternative video available without these unwanted extras: then it's better to have the video, despite the ugly additions.
2. constructive use of (YouTube) annotations in case of subtitles (also misheard ones, e.g. this sift).

But e.g. this annotation ("is ment to be played lowd" (in the beginning)) I think is avoidable.

So what do you think should be allowed and what not?

- Eklek