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• Microsoft goes public with Gmail spoof

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  02.02.12 | No Comments
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  Microsoft has posted its take on Google’s privacy policies, somewhat ironically, on YouTube.The campaign centres around the software giant’s bid to sell itself as a viable alternative for any Google users who find themselves frustrated by the search titan’s knack for delving into their private emails and chat messages in order to sell targeted advertising.The video features "the Gmail man" rifling through people's private post before delivering it. According to leading tech news site TheNextWeb, the video was ...

• New Die Antwoord video looks set to repeat viral success [Video]

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  02.01.12 | 1 Comment
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  Fresh off making their new album Ten$ion available for download on iTunes, Die Antwoord have dropped a brand new video for the single "I Fink U Freeky".Since going live, the video has had upwards of 40 000 views and counting. Shot entirely in black and white, it features Ninja and Yolandi in a variety of gritty domestic scenes -- including Yolandi flicking a cockroach out of a messily fried egg. These household ...

• Volkswagen follow up to 2011 viral success involves Star Wars, dogs [Video]

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  01.19.12 | No Comments
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  Car manufacturing giant Volkswagen has released a teaser for its 2012 Superbowl commercial. The ad will reprise the Star Wars theme of its wildly successful 2011 ad, but with a twist.The teaser features a chorus of dogs, some dressed in Star Wars regalia, barking out the Imperial March.Less than a day after being uploaded, the teaser had attracted nearly 60 000 hits. Volkswagen promises that the canine chorus will make proper sense come 5 February when the ...

• Clay Shirky explains why SOPA/PIPA is bad [TED Video]

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  By Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
  01.19.12 | No Comments
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  Following the 18 January blackout protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act), TED has released a video of renowned New York University (NYU) professor Clay Shirky explaining why the bill passing before congress is bad.The talk, called "Defend Our Freedom To Share (Or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)", took place at TED's New York offices. The video wasn't part of the company's traditional conference video lecture series about "ideas worth spreading".The 14 minute ...

• Web TV series honoured at CES

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  01.13.12 | No Comments
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  At CES International 2012, there seems to be a general certainty in the notion that the future of video entertainment lies on the web. It seems natural, therefore, that the show should play host to the inaugural International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) Awards.The award show is sort of like an Emmy Awards for web TV series. The fact that it took place in the famous Venetian hotel, just down the hall from where the technical Emmys taking place ...

• 8 Great holiday ads on YouTube [Videos]

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  01.09.12 | No Comments
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  More and more companies are recognising the diverse array of holiday occasions out there and tailoring adverts to each one. Depending which side of the fence you sit on, you might call it the height of cynicism or good customer relations. Whatever your feelings, there are times when special occasions and the world of marketing come together to produce special adverts. Memeburn decided to scour the depths of YouTube and find, in no particular order, eight of the best.1. ...

• 6 Great videos to inspire you this Christmas

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  By Andrew Lynch
  12.23.11 | No Comments
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  With Christmas only a few days away Memeburn has a Christmas gift for you. We have compiled a Christmas video collection for 2011. Featuring everything from cruel pranks and parodies to classic tv adverts -- the collection is truly magical. From all of us at Memeburn, Merry Christmas[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o&version=3&hl=en_US] This 2011 advert from John Lewis embodies the true spirit of Christmas. Most certain to bring a smile to your face. It will make you wish you had been more like ...

• Old Spice’s Manta Claus gives the gift of explosions this holiday season [Video]

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  12.13.11 | No Comments
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  Love the Old Spice Guy? Love seeing things blow up? Well now there’s a site just for you.The site, devastatingexplosions.com, is part of Old Spice’s Manta Claus campaign, which sees Isaiah Mustafa gifting different groups of people.The "devastating explosions" site is intended as a gift for "all the people outnumbered by murderous predatory cats in their countries and also continents which start in a vowel". The website allows you to click on a large, ...

• Advertising is out ‘catvertising’ is in [Video]

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  By Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter
  12.06.11 | No Comments
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  Want something you've created to go viral online? If you plan on starring on the video, it’s not going to be easy. Not everybody has the time to get hit by a buck while out on a bike ride, or rescue a calf from an irrigation canal, or fall painfully off a skateboard.There is, however, another way. Be warned, though, it involves cats. It’s an almost universally accepted truth that the internet loves cats. Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat, Monorail ...

• Aussie pop band brings popular games to life [Video]

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  By Talita Calitz
  12.05.11 | 3 Comments
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  A relatively unknown Australian indie-pop band called Hey Geronimo have brought their favourite iPhone games to life in a music video for the title song off their debut album 'Why don’t we do something?'. Some of the popular games featured in the video include Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, Flight Control and Fruit Ninja. The band’s unique “real-life” version of these games is fast on its way to viral status on Youtube with almost 200 000 views in just a ...

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