BlogCadre - youtube

YouTube's April Fools gag gives us a user count

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:33:49 -0500

For an April Fools gag, YouTube RickRoll'D their user base, sending all the homepage's promoted video clicks straight to that heinous Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" video. While I appreciated the joke, the information that it contained was a bit more interesting.

As far as I can tell, the video has been on the home page for about 24 hours now, give or take a few hours. In that time, it's racked up over 5.9 million views, almost 41 thousand comments, and 17 thousand ratings.

I'd assume a non-trivial portion of this traffic is from referrer links and multiple page views. That said, it gives you a rough snapshot of the upper limit on the typical volume of visitors and active (logged-in, commenting or rating) users that visit the YouTube homepage on a Tuesday.

Back in August 2006, YouTube had announced that over 100 million videos were watched per day. This figure is probably higher now, but it puts the homepage count into perspective, suggesting that perhaps 95% of YouTube's video views are from deep links to the site and offsite, embedded views.

Family beaten by YouTube crashers

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:13:09 -0500

The Worthy family feared for their lives when over 100 uninvited teenagers tried to crash a party for their son Christopher. The party was meant to be a small gathering of 30 kids, however, details were posted on YouTube, attracting dozens of unwanted guests.

When the family tried to turn the teenagers away, Mr. Worthy was punched in the face and his son Stephen was badly beaten. The family home was in complete chaos -- alcohol was stolen, fighting occurred, and windows were smashed. Several teenagers were arrested and some injured.

Link.

Man urinates on dying woman declaring it's 'YouTube material'

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:48:01 -0500

27-year-old Anthony Anderson urinated on 50-year-old Christine Lakinski as she was dying of pancreatic failure. Shouting, "This is YouTube material!" Anderson urinated on Lakinski as she collapsed on the street. He also poured a bucket of water over her and smothered her in shaving cream. The entire incident was captured on a mobile phone.

Anderson admitted to smoking a joint and drinking with friends before the incident occurred. He will be sentenced on Oct. 22 after pleading guilty to "outraging public decency." Link.

Greg Patillo, Beatboxing flute player extraordinaire

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:38:45 -0600

Greg Patillo is a beatboxing flautist who gives classic theme songs a hip-hop update. Re-mixed with a little Axel F, Patillo gives the Inspector Gadget theme song some coolness, and his rendition of the Super Mario Brothers theme song will make you tap your foot to the beat.

Previously:
Amateur musician sounds professional through basic timeline editing, Harmonica Beatboxing

Download Youtube and Google Videos

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:10:01 -0600

Jason wrote up a great post over at Hackszine on how to download Youtube and Google videos using Safari or Firefox:

There are a few different ways to get at the FLV file that the video player application is downloading. Safari users can use the Window->Activities feature to locate and download flv files as they are playing, and Joshua Kinberg put together a couple nice Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that make downloading pretty simple.

"Wii Kids" video taken down due to vulgar comments

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:12:33 -0600

People can be cruel sometimes, especially in the comments that they leave on YouTube or any other blogging site.

A man had posted a video of his kids on YouTube titled "Wii Kids". I have not seen the original video, but from what I can make of it, it is a video of his kids getting very excited over their new Wii. Apparently, many people left unnecessary comments regarding how overweight the kids are. As a result, the father took the video down and posted a new video saying why.

The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:41:26 -0600

Luke Johnson is conducting an "experiment" to see how many strangers will call him if he broadcasts his cell phone number on YouTube for the whole world to see.

His goal? To have his phone ringing off the hook day and night.

Why? He's a lonely guy and needs to use up his cell phone minutes somehow.

His cell number is 602.435.3694.

Mannequins on Skateboards Going Down a Hill

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:03:55 -0600

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory...enjoy!

"Skatebording Girl"

Skatebording Girl

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:02:59 -0600

Weatherman vs. Cockroach Video

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:14:41 -0500

I'm sure this video has made the rounds, but this is the first time I've seen it so I thought I would post it for your viewing enjoyment.

Here is a video of Sarasota meteorologist, Justin Mosely, innocently taping a weather segment when a cockroach crawls across his feet.

From an article in the St. Petersburg Times:

LwL: Gamer Vid, Segway Recall, Lego Chaingun, Laptop Ban, Nintendo alarm clock, Japanese Jesus

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:03:08 -0500

It's Friday and y'all know what that means... Lazy Weekend Links:

Check out this very cool video of the day in the life of a gamer. I especially love the part where the gamer almost gets eaten by his pile of controllers. Notice he has every game console known to man.

Segway is recalling 23,500 of their machines due to a software glitch which is causing riders to fall. This is the second recall since Segway's debute in 2002.

Here is a DIY Lego Chaingun. Watch out because once the trigger is pulled hundreds of rubberbands will go flying. It shows no mercy. Here's a direct link to the video.

Korean Air shows prejudice against certain laptops. Dell, if you would stop making laptops that start on fire maybe South Korea will let you back on their flights. Okay, that goes for you too Apple.

Update: Virgin Airlines is now asking their Dell and Apple laptop flyers to remove their batteries before take-off. [Link]

I hate waking to the sound of alarm clocks in the morning, but maybe this Nintendo Controller alarm clock will change my mind.

Did you know that Jesus escaped Jerusalem, fled to Japan and became a rice farmer? Who wouldda thunk? [Link]

Best be down with the James Earl J.

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:33:03 -0500

Take a gander at this mashup featuring James Earl Jones as Vadar having a nervous breakdown.

Who has time to do this kinda stuff?

Vadar Melt Down