You Will Totally Work for This Start-Up

“Similar to Foursquare, except it’s for medical professionals who have HPV.”

Viral Video: David@Denny's

This is a very funny CollegeHumor video series, called “Always Open With Dave Koechner,” a great if unsung comic. It is set at a Denny’s restaurant. Really.

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Building Loyalty on the Web

Companies rushing to develop original video series for the Web are scrambling to solve one of the industry’s biggest problems: building an audience. The challenge, which has stumped creators since the dawn of Web video, is getting more urgent as many producers shift their attention from creating one-off viral hits to online video franchises.

Meta Men: Yahoo Advertises Advertising to Advertisers

What if somebody made a version of “Mad Men,” but replaced the nostalgia and sex appeal with timeliness and accuracy? It would be sort of amusing, in small doses. Like this clip Yahoo made with other pitchmen in mind.
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Weekend Update, 05.23.09

This Weekend Update is particularly exciting because of all the things happening here at All Things Digital. There is, of course, the upcoming D7 Conference, which promises to be more tech-extravaganza fun than a tweet from @sockington (if only half as cute), but this past week has also seen the launch of our very own iPhone app, meaning that ATD has gone mobile–smart news for your smartphone (we’re still working out potential taglines).
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Batman Trailer Mashup Lookalike

One of my favorite things about the Web is how quickly and effectively you can take media and mash it up into all sorts of new forms. Case in point, this comparison of scenes from a trailer from the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight” and that of 1989′s original “Batman.” Incredibly, many of the [...]

Memo to YouTube and Facebook Users: There's Advertising Going On in These Joints–Discuss!

I guess I should not be surprised that there has been immediately negative reaction from users to the recent moves at both YouTube and Facebook related to putting ads throughout both services in a big way. But, with ever-escalating costs (and in YouTube’s case, a big $1.65 billion acquisition price that demands justification by its [...]

Funny Friday Video: Facebook Face/Off

We like funny videos as much as the next person and we especially like funny, techie ones. Here’s one parodying the great John Woo movie Face/Off by reimagining it in a Facebook setting. It’s from the excellent CollegeHumor site: