Justin Bieber loses YouTube crown!
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Budi Putra in Entertainment, Media, Tech
This is a great sample how a video service like YouTube could turned someone from zero to hero. From nobody to somebody.
These two young performers –Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black– got noticed since their Youtube videos went viral and gained the limelights. Lady Gaga is even third most popular on this context!
The fact that Bieber has a real talent, while Black not, that’s another story. But you got the point, right?
Dan Whitworth writes:
Justin Bieber has lost his King of YouTube crown to Rebecca Black. The Canadian super star’s YouTube channel regularly tops the monthly most viewed chart.
But the 17-year-old has been pushed into second place thanks to Rebecca’s song Friday, according to new figures from Famecount.com.
Many critics have described her heavily auto-tuned track as the worst ever but it’s helped her YouTube channel reach 112 million views.
[via BBC]
Top 5 viral YouTube videos from Indonesia!
Posted on April 5, 2011 by Budi Putra in Entertainment, Media, People
Check-out Indonesia’s top five viral YouTube videos in the last two years following the recent one: the hilarious police officer from Gorontalo!
The hilarious Norman Kamaru
Gorontalo Police Mobile Brigade’s First Brigadier Norman Kamaru recorded a session of himself dancing and doing a lip-sync of an Indian song, in the middle of his job. The video went viral, and his senior police officers commented negatively to the video. Debate sparks, as people don’t think Norman should be punished.
The poisonous snail Shinta & Jojo
Mid-2010, Shinta and Jojo of near-Bandung Cimahi, West Java, became famous because of their video doing lip-sync of a song “Keong Racun” (literally means poisonous snail). The cuteness of Shinta Nurmansyah and Jovita Adityasari on the video made them nationally known. They even have starred several TV ads!
The whole-world Udin
Udin Sedunia literally means whole-world Udin. “Udin” is a common nickname for people who have the “suffix -udin” on their names. Soaluddin of Selong, central Lombok, created a song which was recorded by his friend. The song makes fun of all names containing “udin”. The clip was hilarious because of Soaluddin’s expression and the lyrics. He then invited by a national TV to record the song.
Star Destroyers float above Kemang
Star Destroyers, Star Wars’ Imperial ships, floated above Kemang, South Jakarta, mid-July 2010. Not for real, of course. During his spare time, a video special effect artist created this video. After the video went viral, it went to some news sites. A news site even asked opinions from space and astronomy experts!
Smoking baby
Ardi Rizal, a toddler from Sumatra, became worldwide news because of his unusual habit, learnt from his father: smoking. Ardi was just 2 year old when the video of the news went viral around May 2010. The news raised concerns from the Ministry of Health, which helped the family to cure Ardi’s addiction to cigarettes.
Viikii.net: a Youtube of translated videos
Posted on August 26, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
A friend of mine pointed out a cool site recently: Viikii.net –a sharing translation and subtitling platform for streaming video. Now everyone could help the world to understand and enjoy different language videos; just use the Viikii system and start translating and creating subtitles for that. Their community keeps growing and growing. A brilliant idea, right?
The Viikii blog writes:
ViiKii can be a break-through, imagine how you could watch all the fun videos out there in the world, ones you couldn’t even access cuz they were in all these different languages… you can practice language skills, or simply enjoy, and with all the other people doing the same, everyone’d get a step closer to ultimately understanding what goes on out there, and why. For this ‘dream come true,’ we need none other than YOUR help. Every single contribution you make to our ViiKii system, whether it’s just one word or sentence, will pave the way towards the realization of a grand cultural “Silk Road,” transmitting numerous local contents all over the world, beyond language barriers.
A writer of Web 2.0 Asia says:
The site’s reputation system makes translators do a good job, and after a quick spin I find the general quality of translation very good. The site has clean design and has all necessary features like sharing, embedding, comments, etc. You can call this a YouTube of translated videos.
You can contribute your translations skill now!
UPDATE: Its brand Viikii (Viikii.net) changed recently into Viki (Viki.com).
18 interesting firsts on the Internet
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
- The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
- The First Ever Domain Name: “symbolics.com” registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
- The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
- The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
- The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
- The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
- The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
- The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
- The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
- The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
- The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
- The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
- The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
- The First Ever Video on YouTube: “Me at the Zoo” video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
- The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
- The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
- The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
Google launching Twitter-killer!
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Following the launch of Yahoo’s “status-casting” for its email service back in August 2009, Google will also allow its email users to their update status. Google could announce “the Twitter-killer” as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The prompt reads, “let people know what you’re up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages.” But every time a user updates their status, the previous update disappears into the ether.
The WSJ says the new feature will “allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with.” It will be tightly integrated with Google’s video-sharing site YouTube and its photo-sharing site Picasa.
[via Business Insider]
Haiti quake relief: How tech helps
Posted on January 15, 2010 by Budi Putra in Nature
Over $5 million had been raised through text message, thanks to a texting campaign spread on Twitter and Facebook [want to help Haiti people who lost homes, friends and family members in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake? Check-out here]. People around the world also can see the earliest pictures and videos of disaster through TwitPic and YouTube or even satellite photos via Google Earth.
YouTube’s URL shortener: Youtu.be
Posted on December 22, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
OF COURSE, it’s just a matter of time. The most popular video sharing YouTube has introduced their own URL shortener: Youtu.be and will only work with YouTube videos. Welcome to the club!
