http://www.usbchainsaw.com/

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

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 ...

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!"

Definitely a winged manatee for me.

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

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.

... more inside ...

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

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.

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!

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.

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?

I've read the rules and seen the oft mention self posting, which I wasn't worried about breaking. But I was curious about videos that have been discarded from banned members. Are those okay to repost or should I assume we punish the video for the original submitters rule breaking ways. Which in the case I see was a self post.

Let's all congratulate Trancecoach, or Dan as he's known in the real world, on getting to 50 star points. Make sure you check out his:

PQ: http://www.videosift.com/member/Trancecoach/pqueued
Sifted vids: http://www.videosift.com/member/Trancecoach/published, as there is a lot of quality there.

This jack-of-many-trades, being a bartenter, hypnotist, filmmaker etc., has now been a member for just over 6 months and what better way to celebrate this anniversary than to join the Gold club and get to use Blankfist's executive bathroom.

As most of us suspected, those cell phone popcorn videos have been confirmed as fakes; they're viral ads for some lame bluetooth headset:

http://www.cardosystems.com/pop/

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not, but how cool would it be to surf videosift via a fullscreened wall of videos? heh

check it out: www.piclens.com

been using it for a couple days now, and i yearn for a videosift search feature.

didn't know where else to post this besides main, and since i have to choose a channel for it to go anywhere at all, i chose viral. sorry.

If you are like me then you too have a innate distaste or penchant for maliciousness towards this smarmy little chain of peptides.

Come join in the fountain of vitriol that is gathering around to roast the putrid primordial soup we call Doc_M.

*For those of you who don't know he is getting his PhD in biology... way to go tax dollars.

Never has the *viral tag been more appropriate.

http://parody.videosift.com/talk/Let-the-roast-of-Doc_M-commence#comment-388562

I'll make this short and sweet.

Lots of political videos (similarly, EIA videos as well) have been posted, and after watching them, I'll be mad. Naturally, some of these videos are meant to make you feel that way. You know, the "well he said blah blah blah about blah blah blah" type stuff.

Now here's the problem... in that particular instance, I would never condone the content of the videos happening, but I felt glad that I watched the video.

On one hand, I don't want to upvote something that's terrible in a way, but at the same time... I feel it was worth the watch, I'm just not sure I'd like others to see it as well and feel the way I do.

Do I upvote the videos that've disgusted me in some way, when that's what the posters' intention was, as it was a disgusting video? Or do I just keep sifting?