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My *Top 5* funny foreign videos

Posted by rajanand on Dec 10, 2008 in Dance/Music, Personal, Totally Random

No.1 Evolution Dance (American) 106+ million views

No.2 Human Tetris (Japanese) 8+ million views

No.3 100 Fellows joke (Japanese) 61+ thousand views

No.3 Really funny pranks (Portuguese) 5+ million views

No.5 Bad jokes PART 1 (Japanese) 61+ thousand views

 
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Facebook cracks down on homemade videos ‘Alleged Copyright Infringement’

Posted by rajanand on Dec 6, 2008 in Dance/Music, Marketing, Personal, Salsa/Reggaeton, Social Web, twitter

I uploaded my video almost two months back, it was a silly home made video expressing how I was addicted to Twitter. Facebook today removed the video:

“We have removed your video entitled “I’m addicted to Twitter” uploaded at 1:39am October 17th, 2008. We did this because we learned that your video might include copyrighted material owned by a third party, such as a video clip or background audio.”

(Read the complete notice below)

Obviously I don’t have (exclusive) rights to use the background audio. I hold my hands up to it, although it clearly shows Facebook is now on to something . Removing homemade videos, is this the Microsoft influence or just advertisers looking for genuine User Generated Content ?

Compare that with YouTube who also actively remove videos infringing copyright, although only when they get too popular or someone actively complains about them. My video only has 137 views (absolutely tiny) and except from being silly and promoting Twitter doesn’t have much to it. Surely Twitter didn’t complain about it. So who did ? If no one complained then why remove the video and annoy users ?

Hello,  We have removed your video entitled "I'm addicted to Twitter" uploaded at 1:39am October 17th, 2008. We did this because we learned that your video might include copyrighted material owned by a third party, such as a video clip or background audio.  If you are the copyright owner, or have permission from the rights holder to upload and distribute this material on Facebook, you may file a counter notice of alleged infringement by following the link below.  Please note that if you re-upload this video without filing a counter notice, or if you upload another video that infringes on the rights of a third party, our system will again remove the content. This could cause your access to the Facebook Video application to be disabled, or your Facebook account to be disabled.

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Should Middlesex Uni kids dance ?

Posted by rajanand on Oct 22, 2008 in Dance/Music, Europe, Events, Personal, Social Web

digital futures

So I’m doing a short talk at Middlesex University London on Digital Future.

As the organisers put it to me, could you do a ‘Fun presentation on social networking sites, and the phenomenon and ongoing future/possibilities of them’. Now I’m thinking, I’m sure I can do a presentation on Social Networking in my sleep. But to make it fun, should I make the participants dance ?  Weird ?? Networking Opportunity: meet Mike Southon

I remember going to a Flying Start NCGE presentation in Brighton and witnessed one of the most inspiring dances from Mike Southon, Business Speaker and Financial Times Columnist. He said to do business you should be able to laugh at yourself. .

So students at Middlesex university get ready to dance as part of the social networking phenomenon :) I’ll bring a selection of tunes to inspire you all !

 
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My latest video: I’m Addicted to Twitter

Posted by rajanand on Oct 16, 2008 in Brighton, Dance/Music, Europe, Featured, Social Web, iPhone

So I’m semi popular for my rather unpopular dance :). Hence I have decided to do another dance video. Enjoy:

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Barack Obama + Hip hop = Great campaign + Music video

Posted by rajanand on Oct 9, 2008 in Dance/Music

Some of the most popular stars in the Hip-hop world (e.g.: Will.i.am, Nick Canon , John Legend) have come together to compile this video. Its looking great, not sure if Obama’s competitors can better it ?

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Hack: Stream BBC content on realplayer (bypass iPlayer)

Posted by rajanand on Sep 30, 2008 in Dance/Music, Europe, Personal, Social Web, Totally Random
RealPlayer

Image via Wikipedia

If you dislike playing BBC programs on iPlayer here is a way to play it straight from your real player. Now you can rewind, forward, etc all the content on your r player. It needs a little bit of guessing but it works like charms:

Step 1: Start Realplayer > Open Location

Step 2: Enter: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio_station_name/program_name.ra


Examples:

So say you want to hear Tim Westwood (Radio 1) the URL is rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/westwood.ra

Alan Titchmarsh (Radio 2): rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2_titchmarsh.ra

Panjabi Hit Squad (1xtra): rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/1xtra/panjabi.ra

How to guess the program_name ?

Its easy!  go to BBC’s website and the program you want to hear and check their HEAR THE SHOW or LISTEN AGAIN’s  URL. For instance Alan Titchmarsh’s HEAR THE SHOW URL is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_titchmarsh

hence the Real player URL is: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2_titchmarsh.ra

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Indian Michael Jackson Video: Funniest

Posted by rajanand on Sep 20, 2008 in Dance/Music, Totally Random

Although the video is titled punjabi thriller its not in punjabi ! Definitely Indian though. Why can’t a country with a population of 1 billion come up with something original ?? Even if copying was acceptable why make such a pathetic attempt ! <Warning: Video will make you fall of your seat>

Punjabi Thriller

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BBC Blast

Posted by rajanand on Sep 16, 2008 in Dance/Music, Europe, Personal, Salsa/Reggaeton

Came across BBC Blast today which inspires and supports 13 to 19 year olds to get creative. It helps develop skills so you can turn your ideas for art, dance, film, music, writing and games into a reality.

BBC Blast by you.

Very interesting !

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Music industry please replace YouTube with Hobnox

Posted by rajanand on Sep 15, 2008 in Dance/Music, Europe

When it comes to video players there are several of them out there YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe etc. A lot of startups in the music industry rely on these services for their video needs.

Although looking at (German startup) Hobnox’s look and feel and its focus on the music I feel record labels, artists, producers etc should consider adding videos on to YouTube and Hobnox.

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YouTube allows annotation.. I Kwiqqify my Videos

Posted by rajanand on Sep 12, 2008 in Brighton, Dance/Music, Featured, Marketing, Personal, Social Web

YouTube allows users to add annotation to their video. So users who make videos can maybe add messages, links or even advertising ?

Obviously I’m not going to miss the opportunity to Kwiqqify our major properties on YouTube. Examples:

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