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mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v In less time than Sarah Palin has served as governor of Alaska, Ben Huh s company has grown from a tiny blog to a network with over 100 million page views a month. The company runs I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, EngrishFunny, and many other sites that will make you LOL. I met the co-founders, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami at ROFLCon in Cambridge, Massachusetts this year. They are releasing their LOLcat book just in time for the holiday season.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v The Web 2.0 Expo made it s way to the Javits Center in New York City. Speakers included Dan Lyons a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs, Tim O Reilly, Cal Henderson, Fred Wilson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Arianna Huffington, Jay Adelson and Clay Shirky. Tech entrepreneurs gathered to network and learn about useful technologies. We interviewed Rob Sandie, Mat Man and David S. Rose. Music by Podingtonbear

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Martin Sargent is a TV personality perhaps best known for his time spent working on The Screen Savers at TechTV which later became G4. In 2005, he launched a show named Infected with Revision3. Infected ended in 2007 after 50 episodes and in 2008 Sargent introduced Internet Superstar, a show about internet celebrity. He currently hosts the show along with Web Drifter at Revision3.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Tom Anderson is the President of MySpace. As of September 3, 2008, Tom has over 243 million friends because he s all users first friend when they start an account on MySpace. Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch calls Anderson a real life WarGames hacker.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Lil Wayne s Lollipop music video has been recreated by two young up and coming women artists, Madison and Erin. Madison s a micro-celebrity on Myspace where you may listen and download her music for free. Related posts: Kanye West and Perez Hilton.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Drew Curtis is micro famous for his large presence online and involvement in off beat news aggregation. Fark started because Curtis liked to share news stories with his friends when in college and channeled his hobby into a website. Once Fark took off, he leveraged his fame into a multi-million dollar business and a best seller book on Amazon.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Leo Laporte is a tech broadcaster who gained popularity by podcasting and streaming live video at TWiT.tv, This Week in Tech. Laporte is known for being exceptionally insightful on new tech products and gadget reviews propelling TWiT to one of the most popular shows on iTunes and Stickam.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Felicia Day is widley known for her role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer in 2003. After tracking a long history in film and television, Felicia started her own web show, The Guild, which won the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at SXSW, the YouTube Video Award for Best Series, and the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series. Recently, she stared in Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog created by Joss Whedon (also creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) which was a runaway hit online. Few others have yet to make as much of an impact in both the traditional and new media worlds.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Ask A Ninja is one of the most popular and well known comedy shows online. Created by Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask A Ninja answers questions from the audience in a spontaneous and very exaggerated way. The two creators have leveraged the success of their show into a position writing for a Hollywood remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Also look for a published book by the duo later this year.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Fast Lane Daily is a news show about cars. They are the most popular web show that covers all the automotive information you want to hear about under 5 minuets every day. He won a people s choice Webby Award this year and says the show averages 130,000 views a day.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Amber Lee Ettinger is an actress and model who was cast as Obama Girl in a web series by Barely Political and Next New Networks. Obama Girl sparked national news coverage and became an internet phenomenon when I Got A Crush On Obama was released in 2007.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Timothy Sykes is an American investor and blogger who traded his $12,415 bar mitzvah money into $1.65 million during the first bubble. Today, Sykes profits from his blog and live stock show announcing profits of over $40,000 a month. Young Money calls Sykes a successful result of pseudo-celebrity status.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v EconCeleb is a conference at the Rosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, about modern day celebrity. I interviewed Rafat Ali and Staci D. Kramer from PaidContent, a website that covers the media landscape as it transitions to the digital age, and Harvey Levin, the founding editor of TMZ, a website about celebrity news. These bloggers are on the cutting edge of media and where it s going.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Today s episode is about Comic-con where people become famous vicariously through their characters. Fans come from around the globe for the biggest convention to hit San Diego, California, each year.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Last week, at the Fort Mason center in San Francisco, while attending the PSFK conference, I met up with Amit Gupta. Gupta is the founder of Photojojo, a newsletter and website for photographers, and also helps to organize Jelly, collaborative meet-up style working events.

mov | 3gp | wmv | m4v | jpg James D. Rolfe aka Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) formally known as Angry Nintendo Nerd went from a small town video game reviewing geek to a bonified internet phenomenon.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v I covered this topic before on the weekly live show about one month ago but had no idea that it would grow to be one of the biggest memes this summer. As you can see, the video in question features a young woman, Lauren Bernat, and her boyfriend, Giovanni, and has reached millions of views in just one month, gaining national news coverage and landing Lauren on the popular MTV show, TRL. They are trying to figure out how to make money off of this, but so far have not been able to land a major deal. I will be keeping my eye on what s next for this young couple.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Jonathan Coulton is an excellent example of someone who took his internet fame and turned it into a thriving career. He is a musician with a heavy geek heart who resonates with geek cultures online. Coulton has one of the largest and strongest followings of internet fans - they totally lift him up and push his music forward. See also: music, wikipedia bio.

mov | wmv Rex Sorgatz of fimoculous deserves an encore! Well I decided to make a part two where we talk more about Rex. Music, Rubber

m4v | mov | 3gp | wmv Rex Sorgatz is a link blogger at fimoculous. He follows internet culture, music, tv, media, tech and recently published an article in New York Magazine on how to become microfamous in 8 steps. I thought it was interesting and decided to interview Rex about his eight steps (self-publish, stylize, overshare, respond, ally, diversify, create controversy, persist).

mov | wmv | m4v | 3gp My Damn Channel is an online video network competing with networks like Revision3, Next New Networks while disrupting even larger networks like MTV. MDC is focused on providing repeatable, professional content with a variety of different ad supported verticals such as comedy and tutorials. Harry Shearer, the brilliant actor/comedian/writer, produces a channel on the network. I was delighted to interview Rob Barnett at their office in NYC. My favorite show is You Suck at Photoshop. It s a fun tutorial series about photoshop tricks that makes me ROFL. For more information, see NewTeeVee s cover of their launch almost exactly one year ago. Music by Christopher Cushman and Kevin Jones.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox are known around the world (on YouTube) by millions of fans for their comedy series, Smosh. The two met in Junior High School, found that they shared a similar sense of humor, and eventually began posting lip dubs to YouTube. Fast forward to today: YouTube: #1 - Most Subscribed (All Time) #1 - Most Viewed (All Time) - Comedians #11 - Most Viewed (All Time) Now Smosh also has their own website which is gaining a lot of momentum. For almost no expense, and almost no technical experience, Ian and Anthony have fostered an enormous online community around their videos.

mov | 3gp | m4v | wmv David Karp is the 21 year old founder of Tumblr, a breakthrough blogging platform that allows users to easily reblog multimedia content. I ve had a tumblr blog installed here on Pop17 from day one and I love it. I d definitely recommend setting up a Tumblr blog if you are looking for a blogging platform, especially if you are into reblogging. And if you are looking for some cool new bloggers to follow or add to your RSS aggregators, check out the Tumblr Explore section of the site. Music by PodingtonBear

mov | 3gp | m4v Last year the launch of the iphone was revolutionary. Everyone knew about it. When Steve Jobs gave his keynote in San Francisco at WWDC I went to the Prince Street Apple store in SoHo, New York to get opinions from people shopping. Chris Pirillo is getting one for the GPS. Maybe it isn t necessary for everyone, but it s going to be really cool to see the apps developed for GPS on the 3G iphone. I can t wait. It s so exciting!! Many prefer the titanium look of the first gen model and don t like the plastic look of the 3G iphone. I like the feminine look of the white 16GB model for $299. It s got that classic Apple feel. Ahhh . My iphone is one of my best friends. I want an upgrade, but I m not 100% sure if I will be waiting in line July 11th. Should I get the white 16GB 3G iphone? Will people with first generation iphones upgrade to 3G? Is it just a trend? I d love to hear your thoughts. Music by Podingtonbear

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v As part of Internet Week, Wiimbledon, a tennis tournament played with the Wii, attracted enthusiasts from all over to come out, drink a beer and compete for a grand title. Other winning categories included most athletic, most dangerous, best costume and shortest shorts. Barcade in Brooklyn hosted for the second year in a row. Music by Podington Bear

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v I had a great experience interviewing the winners of the Webbys 2008 Video Awards in New York City. To kick off the awards, Tay Zonday sang the National Anthem and he was awesome! In this video I interviewed: Richter Scales 30 Second Bunnies Theatre Tay Zonday DailyGreens Diggnation You Suck at Photoshop Wainy Days I had a great time during the whole ceremony and laughed almost the whole way through. (Thanks, Popgadget!)

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v For Internet Week in NYC Diggnation, who just won a Webby Award for technology online video and film, held a meetup in Brooklyn at StudioB. I asked fans of the sold-out show what they would do to get in. Amazing Camera work goes to Caitlin Hill. Music by Podington Bear

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Nate Westheimer, born on April Fools day, is a 25 year old entrepreneur in New York City. Westheimer is the CEO of a wiki called BricaBox, a contributing writer to the Silicon Alley Insider and will be launching a live weekly tech show on the Mogulus platform.

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v I have been getting a lot of emails recently asking me how I make my live show. I m lucky to have the help of Mogulus and their studio. I also use an N95 phone which I broadcast on to Flixwagon when outside of the studio. Some of the equipment I use for the live show is not necessary, but adds an extra layer to the production quality compared to streaming right off your laptop (which I also do sometimes as well) What are some of your favorite gadgets, accessories and software for live streaming?

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Jennifer Ringley started JenniCAM in 1996. She was the first lifecaster to stream her life 24/7 and can be considered the woman who inspired Reality TV. In 2003, CNN quoted her saying, I keep JenniCam alive not because I want or need to be watched, but because I simply don t mind being watched. The site disappeared that year along with Jenni s internet identity, but she will always be remembered for the groundbreaking work she did on JenniCAM.