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Last Night’s VMAs, Now on Twitter and YouTube

Peter Kafka in Media on August 29, 2011 at 3:44 am PT

Didn’t watch MTV’s award show? No need.

Viral Video: Apple Fan Girl (Who Runs the World) Beyoncé

Kara Swisher in Media on July 8, 2011 at 6:56 am PT

This is a spoof from Electric Spoofaloo of Beyoncé’s “Girls (Who Rule The World)” mashed up with Apple’s retail stores. Okay, it’s Friday.

Viral Video: Adorable Tyke Dancing With Less Adorable Adults

Kara Swisher in News on September 16, 2010 at 12:28 am PT

This video is clearly cooked up for virality, but BoomTown fell for it anyway. In it, a cute little girl starts dancing like any kid would, but is soon joined by a bunch of adults and begins a choreographed number that would do Beyoncé proud. And then at the end, the kicker: It is all part of an ad for Samsung’s Galaxy 580 mobile phone. Giant, prolonged, I-was-totally-snookered sigh.

How to Cram Most of the Web Into One Super Bowl Ad–And Not Sell TVs

Peter Kafka in Media on February 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Google got a second ad for free last night: A Vizio ad that promoted YouTube, along with a slew of other Web services. But the ad did a lousy job of promoting the company’s Internet-connected TVs. Pity, because it actually has something cool to pitch.

Viral Video: Get Out Your 3-D Glasses for the Michael Jackson Grammy Tribute (Plus Colbert and the iPad)

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2010 at 12:59 am PT

While an iPad in the wild–held up by Stephen Colbert–got a lot of ink, here’s a video from last night’s Grammy Awards, which went all “Avatar” during a tribute to the late Michael Jackson–when a panoply of belt-it-out singers performed one of his posthumous songs with a 3-D twist. In fact, much of the audience was wearing 3-D glasses–including Beyoncé, pictured here–to properly experience the performance of “Earth Song” and its accompanying film, which was supposed to be part of Jackson’s “This Is It” tour.

Voices

Pomplamoose: Inspired by Avant-Garde Film and Michael Jackson, a Hit on YouTube

Sara Lin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 3, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

Indie rockers Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte are pioneers in the new VideoSong movement, soon to hit a computer near you. The Stanford University graduates in the summer of 2008 formed the band Pomplamoose, recording high-energy video covers of popular tunes like Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

Viral Video: All the Single Babies

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2009 at 12:15 am PT

Here’s the latest Internet sensation that spoofs Beyoncé’s “All the Single Ladies” hit music video. This time it is tiny Cory Elliott, getting down with a diaper when he was 13 months old.

Viacom and Google Fight in Court, but Work Together to Keep Kanye West Off of YouTube

Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2009 at 7:27 am PT

Yes, Viacom is still suing Google for a billion dollars, because it says too many of its videos showed up on YouTube. But that doesn’t mean Viacom and Google can’t work together to prevent the cable giant’s videos from showing up on YouTube. Want to see this in action? Go to YouTube and try to find a clip of the Kanye West/Taylor Swift/Beyoncé incident from Sunday night’s Video Music Awards.

The Internet Loves MTV, Taylor Swift and Kanye West, but YouTube Keeps Its Distance

Peter Kafka in Media on September 14, 2009 at 6:11 am PT

It’s a not-quite-annual tradition: Something unexpected (but perhaps not unplanned) happens at MTV’s Video Music Awards and the Internet can’t stop talking about it. But Viacom’s copyright lawsuit means that you’ll have work a bit if you want to see for yourself on YouTube.

Only One Beyoncé: Services Pick Up After Your Music

Geoffrey A. Fowler in Personal Technology on July 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm PT

by Geoffrey Fowler

TuneUp Media and MusicBrainz Picard aim to clean up and properly label personal digital-music collections.