Viral Friday: MRirian

Written by Niels Bellaar on January 25th, 2008 | no comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to MRirian. This YouTube sensation is the 21-year-old MRirian from Japan. Her talent? Staring and smiling at her webcam. Her latest video got 1.2 million views last week. The runner up spot is for I Got a Crush on Hillary. After Obama Girl, Giuliani Girl and Ron Paul Girl we now welcome Hillary Boy! “I Got a Crush on Hillary” is his answer to the Obama Girl videos. Bio-Rad Laboratories’ “Scientists for better PCR” completes this week’s top 3. To promote it’s 1000 Series Thermal Cyclers the company recorded a song to the music of Michael Jackson’s “We are the world”.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!

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IceMobile’s LiveCastr: Mobile Social Networking

Written by Igor Beuker on January 25th, 2008 | 1 comment

Recently I visited the new office of my friend Ralph Cohen, founder at IceMobile. Today he surprised me again with his e-mail: We are proud to inform you that IceMobile has officially announced LiveCastr at the World Economic Forum in Davos today.

LiveCastr will enable the next phase of online social networking. Through LiveCastr, users can broadcast live video directly from their mobile phones to the web, allowing their friends to follow them from any event, anytime, anywhere. The live video can be viewed on the LiveCastr website or on a LiveCastr player that users can place on their personalized profile page on their favorite online social network.
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