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  Old Spice Guy Personalizes Videos for Celebs, Tweeters and Bloggers

  JP 1:45 am on July 16, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: A.K.A., Alyssa Milano, apolo ohno, guy, Guy Personalizes, Isaiah Mustafa, Kevin Rose, nbsp (1,691), Old, perez hilton (2), Read (1,473), Spice (2), spice guy (2)

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  When actor Isaiah Mustafa (A.K.A. the “Old Spice Guy”) gallantly rode his white horse on to the center stage of pop culture earlier this year, he almost instantly became a viral sensation. Not long after his hilarious commercial debut on February 4, “the man your man could smell like” released a series of similar ads on YouTube and Old Spice’s website. Now, he’s taken things one step further, by releasing personalized, dashingly handsome personalized videos over Twitter.

  As part of a brilliant ad campaign, Mustafa has been rapidly producing short, 30-second videos for prominent bloggers who have written about him, YouTube commenters or random Twitter followers. He’s been posting the clips on Twitter, and, as TechCrunch reports, has so far made videos for Alyssa Milano, Apolo Ohno, and Perez Hilton, as well as normal, non-celebrity folk. All of the videos, in essence, are like personalized Old Spice commercials. After seeing that Digg co-founder Kevin Rose tweeted about being sick, for example, Mustafa quickly responded with a video in which he says he never gets sick because his body is “98-percent muscle.” You can find a lot of the videos on Old Spice’s Twitter feed, and see which users Old Spice has targeted thus far.

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  Old Spice Guy Personalizes Videos for Celebs, Tweeters and Bloggers originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Lady Gaga Trounces Obama With 10 Million Facebook Fans

  JP 1:44 am on July 7, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Gaga, guy, Lady, Lisbon, mafia wars (10), nbsp (1,691), population of portugal, Portugal, President Obama (20), Read (1,473), rise to fame, Texas (12)

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  Can Lady Gaga be stopped? Self-marketing genius, living performance piece, fortuitous flavor of the month or some combination of the three, the Lady’s rise to fame seems uninhibited by even bad press and a mediocre music video. You could argue that the world has reached its Lady Gaga tipping point, but the numbers would refute you. As we reported back in April, Gaga made YouTube history by pulling in over a billion views for just three videos (we’ve calculated our managing editor is responsible for at least half of those hits). And now, she’s just earned another milestone by raking in over 10 million Facebook fans.

  As of today, she’s earned 10,673,476 fans, to be exact. That’s more people than the population of Portugal, where naysayers just may want to send every Gaga fan. (We hear Lisbon is lovely this time of year. Or not?) She overtook President Obama, still sitting pretty with 9.82 million fans, to have more followers than any other living person on Facebook. Detractors of the Haus of Gaga will be heartened to know that intangibles such as Texas Hold ‘em Poker, Mafia Wars and ‘Family Guy’ are still trouncing the Lady with their fan counts.

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  Lady Gaga Trounces Obama With 10 Million Facebook Fans originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Ben Folds Takes Chatroulette Live With Concert Improv

  JP 12:48 am on March 24, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ben Folds, Charlotte (4), charlotte north carolina, ChatRoulette (8), Don (24), guy, nbsp (1,691), North Carolina (6), piano improvisation, plain weirdness, Read (1,473)

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  Last week, we told you about an ‘anonymous’ guy named ‘Merton’ who was serenading folks on Chatroulette with hilarious piano improvisation. Now, his true identity has been revealed. This video from Gizmodo shows piano man Ben Folds, a.k.a. Merton, using Chatroulette live onstage at a recent show in Charlotte, North Carolina. Don’t worry, Folds (and his audience of about 2,000 people) didn’t run across any human anatomy on the site, but there was still plenty of webcam weirdness. In the video, Folds and the crowd urge a guy named Bobby to pull away a notepad covering his camera, revealing his smiling face. Another guy, sitting on a toilet, rocks out to Folds’s music, while the singer urges him to eat plenty of fiber. Of course, there’s the requisite shirtless guy, too, who is quickly disconnected.

  The crowd really seems to enjoy this onstage experiment. Plenty of bands have streamed live concerts on the Web. But the anonymity, randomness and just plain weirdness of Chatroulette, as combined with Folds’s penchant for funny improv, takes this idea to new places. [From: Gizmodo]

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  Ben Folds Takes Chatroulette Live With Concert Improv originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Windows 7 Whopper Caught on Video

  JP 12:54 am on October 25, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: beef patties, guy, Japan (14), nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), Seth MacFarlane (2), seven houses, the Netherlands (2), U.S. (109), Whopper, Windows (7)

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  Microsoft has tried various slightly odd marketing schemes to grab some attention for Windows 7 here in the U.S. ranging from distrubingly cute commercials and a partnership with ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane to house parties that have received much deserved mocking. Overseas, the promotions have taken on an strange numerological slant, working “7″ into everything. In the Netherlands it was 777 copies of the new OS for a town whose name translates to “Seven Houses.” In Japan, it’s mildly disgusting, and artery-clogging Windows 7 Whopper.

  Burger King is offering, in Japan only, a special Windows 7 edition of the Whopper, that has seven beef patties. The heart-attack-on-a-bun will be available for one week (or seven days), to the first 30 customers each day, for ¥777. If you’re not horrified yet, just check out the full-sized image below and watch the video of the Windows 7 Whopper’s first victim after the break.

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  Windows 7 Whopper Caught on Video originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Family Guy' Teams With Microsoft for Windows 7 TV Extravaganza

  JP 1:28 pm on October 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alex (4), Alex Borstein, annoying commercials, family (5), Gayle Troberman, guy, Guy Presents, Lois Griffin, Microsoft (19), microsoft releases windows, nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), Seth, Seth MacFarlane (2)

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  To mixed reviews, Microsoft tried being all fluffy and sweet while advertising its new operating system. Now, it’s time for Plan B — comedy. Enter ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein (a.k.a. Lois Griffin), who agreed to produce a Microsoft-sponsored variety show. The comedy extravaganza/marketing ploy will air November 8th on FOX, a couple weeks after Microsoft releases Windows 7 on October 22nd.

  Fortunately, you won’t have to sit through annoying commercials, since, as Advertising Age reports, there’ll be Windows-branded content throughout the program, which is tentatively titled ‘Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show.’ Microsoft is being coy as to just what this integrated material will be, but Gayle Troberman, general manager of consumer engagement and advertising, says, “We’ll be evoking the cast of ‘Family Guy’ in some interesting ways that integrate the product messages.”

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  ‘Family Guy’ Teams With Microsoft for Windows 7 TV Extravaganza originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Mother of Autistic U.K. Hacker Calls on Obama for Help

  JP 2:01 am on August 8, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: asperger s syndrome, autism disorder, extradition, Gary McKinnon, guy, Janis Sharp, nbsp (1,691), President Obama (20), Read (1,473), U.K. (37), U.S. (109)

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  Forty-three-year-old Londoner Gary McKinnon is facing extradition to the U.S. (as well as up to 60 years in a U.S. prison) if convicted of hacking into government computers, reports the BBC. He also has Asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism disorder. After numerous failed attempts to have her son tried in the U.K., McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp (pictured) is pleading directly to President Obama for help, having sent him a letter signed by 40 Members of British Parliament asking him to “bring this shameful episode to an end.” Speaking outside the High Court last week, she added, “I’m just praying, please hear us, Obama, because I know you would do the right thing.”

  McKinnon claims he was simply looking for suppressed UFO-related documents, and that the attacks were in no way malicious. Still, laws were broken, and two judges found that extradition was the proper response, but also admitted that extradition and prison in the U.S. for the handicapped McKinnon might be “very difficult indeed.” With the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty recently failing to get a revision, it’s unknown exactly what Obama’s choices are in the matter. But Sharp is hopeful. Outside the High Court, she told reporters, “Obama wouldn’t have this. He doesn’t want the first guy extradited for computer misuse to be a guy with Asperger’s, a UFO guy.” [From: BBC News]

  Mother of Autistic U.K. Hacker Calls on Obama for Help originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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