Roger Federer made history on Sunday when he defeated brave Andy Roddick in a marathon five-set match, to win his sixth Wimbledon title and claim a record 15th Grand Slams. With his latest win the 27-year-old Swiss surpasses Pete Sampras old record of 14 majors.
Federer’s new Facebook profile picture
Also on the web Federer breaks records. To interact with his fans directly and share exclusive content, Federer uses his Facebook profile with a staggering 2.2 million fans and his official site RogerFederer.com with 250,000 signed up members.
Us Now is a documentary project about the power of mass collaboration, the internet and its potential impact on society. Directed by Ivo Gormley, the film explores how the web is changing the ways we can organize ourselves and illustrates how online networks are changing the way we live together.
Us Now: a film directed by social anthropologist/filmmaker Ivo Gormley
Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch Surfing, a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.
On Dotsub the 1 hour documentary by Banyak Films is subtitled in Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher has taken on the role as Bacardi Limited’s first ever Global Social Responsibility Ambassador and will be the face of the ‘Champions Drink Responsibly’ worldwide.
The liquor brand has launched a ‘viral’ advert on Sunday’s episode of Top Gear, in which Bacardi ambassador Michael Schumacher aka The White Stig was a guest.
Its a bird! Its a plane! No, he’s Barack Obama and he has come to save the day! JibJab, created and founded in 1999 by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, puts the rock in Barack with a new, over-the-top JibJab original satire, that debuted in front of the President himself last Friday at the 65th Annual Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner!
“He’s Barack Obama”: 300,000 views, 4,000 ratings, 2,500 comments in 5 days on YouTube
Last year, a gamer by the YouTube username Levinator25 found a “Walk on Water” glitch in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. EA Sports reacted brilliantly with a video response, showing Tiger Woods performing a Jesus Shot in a real, non-video game life and proclaiming “It’s not a glitch”.
Rocco Mediate attempts his own walk on water
For PGA Tour 10 (and just in time for the U.S. Open), it’s Rocco Mediate’s turn to play the role of Tiger Woods. Check out what happens when Rocco attempts his own walk on water. EA Sports has added another personal message to Levinator 25 in the video: “fyi Rocco Mediate is in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. See if you can find any ‘glitches’.”
ASICS, a Japanese athletic equipment company, which produces professional footwear and sports equipment designed for various sport disciplines has released 4 humorous videos in the Netherlands, as part of What’s a Left Without a Right, an advertising campaign promoting the SportStyle leisure footwear range campaign.
Part 1 What If: Pamela
The (viral) video campaign, released last month, revolves around the question “What if?”. Imagine Michael Knight without Kitt, Pamela Anderson without plastic surgery or Lennon without McCartney. Without their perfect match their lives could have turned out to be rather less successful …
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Ken Block Gymkhana Two. Ken Block, the man behind DC Shoes created a highly viral video in order to promote his favorite racing sport Gymkhana. The runner up spot is for The Portobello Mushroom Burger. Popular YouTube celebrities Nigahaga and Smosh created their own version of Carl’s Jr. Portobello Mushroom Burger commercial. DEADLINE Post-It Stop Motion completes this week’s top 3. Taiwanese student Bang-Yao Liu created a fabulous stop-motion video about everyone’s day struggle: the fight with post-it notes and deadlines.
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Getyourbasketballon.com is the official website of Leroy Smith, the basketball personality who motivated Michael Jordan, to be the greatest basketball player ever.
Leroy Smith: Motivize! Pulverize! Realize!
Leroy Smith, played by Charlie Murphy, is a marketing campaign by Nike based on the “real” motivational force behind Michael Jordan’s success. Leroy beat out Michael Jordan in the tenth grade for the last spot on the varsity basketball team of Laney High School in Wilmington, which cut Jordan from the team. Instead of giving up after failing to make the team, Michael Jordan used that for motivation to author the most impressive NBA career of all-time.
19-year-old Australian girl Clare Werbeloff has become an internet celebrity after giving a false account of a shooting outside a Kings Cross nightclub to Nine News on May 17.
Clare Werbeloff aka “Clare the Kings Cross bogan” or “chk-chk-boom girl”
“There were these two wogs fighting, The fatter wog said to the skinnier wog: ‘Oi bro, you slept with my cousin’. And the other one said: ‘Nah man, I didn’t for shit, eh’ and the other one goes: ‘I will call on my fully sick boys, eh’. And then pulled out a gun and went [gun-cocking sound] chk-chk boom!” Werbeloff said as she finished describing her encounter.
Ahead of tonight’s UEFA Champions League Final in Rome, Barça’s Thierry Henry and Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs try to outdo each other in a series of competitive jokes and pranks in Reebok’s new psychological warfare viral film, released 23 May 2009, under the rhythm’s of the song “Anything you can do, I can do better”.
Henry and Giggs show a different type of competitive spirit in the ad to promote the new Reebok Instante boot both players will be wearing in the Champions League final in Stadio Olimpico.
