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Capetonians Hit The Streets To “Cover The Night” For Kony 2012 [VIDEO]
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 12 Comments
If you’ve been following the Kony 2012 movement, you’d remember they called for an April 20 world wide canvassing campaign. “Cover the Night” also hit Cape Town over the weekend and saw activists put up their share of posters around town. See all the “excitement” after the jump.
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
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Round-Up Of 2012’s Better April Fools’ Jokes
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
April Fool pranks played by people tend to be either cruel or embarrassing. April Fool pranks played by tech companies, however, are charming and endearing attempts at being funny for one day every year – and this year’s haul of PR stunts is actually pretty good. Check them out after the jump.
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Journalists Being ‘Strongly Cautioned’ Against Reporting On TSA Scanning Vulnerabilities
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following a recent viral expose by blogger Jonathan Corbett on the potentially serious weaknesses in the TSA’s airport body scanners, multiple journalists have reported receiving emails from the TSA “strongly cautioning” them against covering the story. Corbett is encouraging media outlets to cover the story anyway.
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Stop KONY 2012: Ugandans React To Viral Kony Video
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
As the #StopKONY juggernaut continues rampaging across the interwebs and social networks, some reporters have turned to Kony’s fellow Ugandans for comment on the video, and the Invisible Children organisation’s project to bring Joseph Kony to justice. Their opinions? Not positive.
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Mercedes Pimps Out “Invisible” Ride With New Fuel Cell Technology [VIDEO]
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well this is all kinds of wow. Mercedes have developed a new hyrdogen fuel cell technology for their latest vehicle ranges which they claim has zero emissions, and is thus “invisible to the environment”. See what happens when they take that concept to the next level. Eat your heart out, 007!
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Tim Burton Finally Reboots Frankenweenie! [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tim Burton has finally rebooted his classic 1984 stop motion short “Frankenweenie” into a full length animated feature. If you’re a Burton fan, then come October, this will be a must see. We’ve got the first trailer, after the jump!
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TED Talks: Check Out Youtube’s Kevin Allocca On Why Online Videos Go Viral [VIDEO]
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You can do a lot worse on the internet these days than watching the odd TED talk online. Here’s a particularly worthy one, in my opinion, as Kevin Alloca from Youtube discusses the dynamics of how and why videos go viral.
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WATCH: Die Antwoord On David Letterman Show [VIDEO]
07 Feb 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 17 Comments
Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er performed on David Letterman’s show yesterday, and we managed to get the video for you. Click ‘Continue Reading’ to check it out and tell us what you think. Or rather, tell us what you think Americans will think?
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Check Out This Die Antwoord Parody, It’s Red Hot! [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the world anxiously awaits the release of Ten$ion, the next Die Antwoord album, check out this timely reminder, via a homage to the enfants terribles of Afrikaans hardcore, that gingers are people too.
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Barack Obama Sings Born This Way [VIDEO]
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Once again, YouTube user barackdubs has come up with a winner! This time he places super cut video clip-grabs, featuring Barack Obama, over the backtrack of Lady Gaga’s Born this Way. In other words, it looks and sounds like Obama is actually singing the song. Video after the jump.
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Rick Perry: Parodies And Protected Posts
12 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It didn’t take long for the internet to respond to Perry’s ridiculously offensive ad. Besides over 120 000 dislikes on YouTube, here is a taste of the many fine parodies his bigoted nonsense stimulated, while his new videos have comment and rating functions blocked.
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YouTube Launches Revamped Homepage Today
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube is launching what they’re calling their biggest redesign in history today – and, granted, every time a website changes they tend to say that, but the differences here are pretty striking, with sweeping changes to the homepage and channel pages, strongly emphasising social media integration.
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Granddad Fights: Watch These Two Retired Football Players Throw Down [VIDEO]
30 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Good grief, this is what happens when you try to get granddads on an awards stage before they’ve had their lunch and/or an afternoon nap.
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Belgium Music Label Tracks Trending Bands On Social Media To Find Hits
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another case of “Why didn’t I think of that?”, a Belgian record label that goes by the name of SonicAngel, identifies future stars by tracking trends on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Not only that, they also allow fans to invest in the artists’ success, with a six monthly return on their initial investment. Brilliant.
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Bollywood’s First Sci-Fi Film Unearthed [VIDEO]
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Film geeks have unearthed India’s first sci-fi film, Hindi space adventure Trip to Moon, made in 1967. And, since it’s unlikely to take Netflix by storm anytime soon (though I fully expect an American re-make by end 2012) they’ve uploaded it to YouTube in full.
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Gotta Get Down On Braaiday! [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Whether you’re kickin’ in the front seat, or sittin’ in the back seat, this September 24th is officially South Africa’s Braai Day – and what better way to get down on the Braai Day vibe than take a squizz at this priceless parody of Rebecca’s internet YouTube sensation ‘Friday’? Check out the Braaiday vibe after the jump! We so excited, we we so excited!
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Facebook To Introduce Music Service
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite topping the user charts with over 750 million users, social networking monolith, Facebook, is rolling out a range of new services to keep its users happily posting, perving and otherwise wasting valuable hours of productivity.
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Lady Gaga’s Account Gets Pulled From YouTube
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Many of you may know the frustration of having your video removed from YouTube, simply because you used some insignificant part of someone else’s song. Now Lady Gaga knows exactly how you feel, even worse, she’s had her entire account suspended by YouTube.
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Democracy For Realsies: Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its Constitution
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot damn but I love the future. Iceland is drawing up a new constitution, in the wake of the country’s commercial banks collapsing. Which is news, but not news-news; the interesting part is how the former vikings are going about the process – they’re crowdsourcing the draft online, with links to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.
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Break Copyright Law And YouTube Will Punish You [VIDEO]
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube is becoming your mother. Starting Thursday, if you upload something that violates copyright law you’ll be forced to watch a video telling you just how naughty you’ve been.
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Japanese Student’s Family Sends Her Proof Of Life Via YouTube [VIDEO]
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Finally, some good news out of Japan! Imagine being a Japanese foreign student in America, having no way of knowing if your family on the other side of the world survived the tsunami that rocked the region last week, until you find a YouTube video, confirming their survival. It’s okay, I also had to wipe my eyes afterward.
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Lightsabers In The Hood [VIDEO]
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What starts out as just another video of some bored dudes fighting on YouTube, suddenly escalates into something way more epic. How epic? I’m talking full tilt lightsaber epic. Once again proving that lightsabers are awesome, and that Star Wars fanboys are everywhere, even in the hood.
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So That Guy Didn’t Get A Million Dollars By Asking For It After All
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’ve been deceived! By somebody on the internet! My god, but I feel so used. It turns out that Craig Rowin, that guy who put up three separate videos asking millionaires for money and then apparently getting it was totally lying to us. It was all a big ol’ ‘look at me I’m a comedian’ hoax.
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This Guy Got 1 Million Dollars By Asking The Internet For It
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
God, I hate this. Craig Rowin, this guy from the internet who used various Youtube videos to ask random rich people to send him one million dollars for no reason in particular, is now one million dollars richer. Understand that I am not so much congratulating Craig Rowans for milking the internet as I am muttering about not having done it first.
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Youtube’s Ad Of The Year Isn’t The Old Spice Guy
23 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Instead, it’s a video of some dude using a woman and a small child as a seatbelt. Or it’s about hugs. Or maybe they’re saying a woman and child will hug you if you drive a car in Sussex? I’m not totally sure, because the important thing to note here is that somehow this lost […]
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YOUTUBE, MEET VUVUZELA
25 Jun 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The number of small but pleasing World Cup software add-ons is growing by the day. Remember the little Google Maps vuvuzela man? Cool stuff like that. Of course they’re trivial gimmicks, but they’re official tips of the cap to our lovely country, so it gives me great pleasure to present YouTube‘s World Cup gimmick offering.
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