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How did Yiying Lu’s “Fail Whale” go from an unfortunate placeholder to an entire social media brand?
As with most things on the Internet, it was a little bit of skill mixed with a whole lot of luck, and some randomness thrown in for good measure.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Fail Whale phenomenon, or if you’d like to know a little more about the behemoth beast, then check out ReadWriteWeb’s “The Story of the Fail Whale” and see what you’ve been missing.
Apparently someone in Weezer knows a thing or two about viral marketing, because their video for Pork and Beans, which features many of the Internet’s most famous viral video stars doing what they do best, has been passed around the Internet like the plague this past week. In case you missed it:
The Nimbus Cloud Computer “works like a PC” only it’s “better than a PC” because it’s free. Instead of paying for the Nimbus, you simply allow them to show you an ad while using the computer, and it pays for itself. If you don’t want the ad, you can also pay a monthly fee to use the Nimbus ad free, but where’s the fun in that?
The computer comes with a keyboard and mouse, and you simply provide a monitor and Internet access, and you’re on your way.
Is this the future of computing?
[Via: Spark Plugging]
Wednesday’s episode of South Park featured a fantastic scene with various viral video stars fighting over their Internet money.
In case you missed it, here’s a clip.
For the full episode, check out South Park Episode Player.
[Via: UNEASYsilence]
The Los Angeles Times managed to score an exclusive interview with the man behind the Roll, and with insight such as “I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it; But that’s what brilliant about the Internet.” it’s a must read.
With rumors of a Digg sale swirling around the Internet, Valleywag decided to create a “typical Digg power user” to show potential buyers the type of user that they’re bidding for.
Can you digg it?
[Via: Valleywag]
Leopard’s Back to My Mac tool is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to access their Mac from anywhere around the world without bringing it with them.
The program is designed to let you “Access and control your Mac running Mac OS X Leopard from any other Leopard-based Mac over the Internet — right in the new Finder”.
It’s a great program, but unfortunately, it requires a .Mac account if you want to use it.
However, if getting back to your Mac sounds like something that you’d like to do, but a .Mac account doesn’t sound like something you need, then check out Lifehacker’s guide to Get Back to Your Mac Without Paying for It, as it will guide you through the process of setting up Back to My Mac on your Leopard computer with tools that are available for free, right out of the box.
Alltop is Guy Kawasaki’s latest project, and it’s “a ‘dashboard,’ ‘table of contents,’ or even a ‘digital magazine rack’ of the Internet”.
It’s also just a direct rip and expansion of Popurls, which means much of the blogging world is up in arms about the usefulness (or lack thereof) of Alltop.
However, if you’re looking for a site that groups all of the top stories together from top sites and then arranges them by topic, Alltop might be just what you’re looking for.
[Alltop]
In the AOL era, forums and chat rooms were the place to be.
However, as Facebook and MySpace began sucking up everyone’s extra time, forums and chat rooms were suddenly slotted under poking and biting chumps on the Internet order of importance scale.
Fortunately, the forum has remained a vital source of information for some, and because of this, a set of laws and rules has slowly developed to make them more enjoyable.
Unfortunately, not everyone follows these rules, and internet anonymity means that there’s always someone who wants to ruin everyone else’s good time. If that someone happens to be you, then be sure to watch the following video for a quick lesson on How To Behave On An Internet Forum.
Pwned.
And from the same guy, and equally funny video titled “How To Ruin Xbox Live For Everyone Else”:
Popurls is “the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet”.
Think of it as the best of the best, gathered up and laid out in a clean and easy to read format, with plenty of customization to make it your own.
If that’s not enough, you can also access popurls on your iPhone, via Twitter, through Jaiku, from Facebook, on the PS3 and PSP, and with the Wii.
[Popurls]
