Viral Friday: Ode To Merton
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 week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Chatroulette Piano Ode To Merton. Last week we were amazed to see Merton’s Chatroulette Piano Improv. Now Ben Folds ‘does a Merton’ performing live for an audience. The runner up spot is for Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek. Last Tuesday Adobe uploaded a sneak peek of the new “content-aware fill” Photoshop feature, and it’s great! The Predators Trailer completes this week’s top 3.This summer a new part in the science fiction horror film franchise Predator series will be launched, aptly called Predators.
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1. Chatroulette Piano Ode To Merton
Last week ‘Merton’ got the #2 spot in Viral Friday with his Chatroulette piano improv. Unfortunately YouTube deleted his video when it had just over 4 million views (he re-upped it though with some changes). This week Ben Folds paid homage to Merton by doing a piano improv live before an audience of 2,000. Since last Saturday over 2 million watched the Ode to Merton. Now for the big question: Are Merton and Ben Folds the same person?
2. Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek
The Adobe Photoshop team released this video last Tuesday. The video shows a technology for synthesizing texture Adobe calls “content-aware fill”. And as the vid demonstrates it will make removing elements from images a lot easier. Rumors are this feature will be available in the next release, Creative Suit 5, scheduled on April 12th. Meanwhile almost 1.2 million watched the video in the past three days.
3. Predators Trailer
This summer a new part in the science fiction horror film franchise Predator series will be launched, aptly called Predators. It all started in 1987 when the Governator faced the first Predator in the jungle. After that episode followed Predator 2, Alien vs Predator, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem and now the 5th sequel; Predators. Buzz about this film is increasing with over 800,000 views alone for this trailer in just over one week.
4. Opera Mini 5 On The iPhone
On March 23rd, Opera submitted Opera Mini for iPhone to the Apple App store: a browser that could replace the standard Safari browser. To show its features, Opera released a 2 minute video previewing the app and including a speed test: Opera vs Safari. We all know how protective Apple may be, given the rejection of a Google App last year. Guess when Opera Mini will be approved by Apple and the closest guess wins a brand new iPhone. In just three days the video got over 421,000 views on YouTube and the competition got over 2,500 retweets and 4,259 shares on Facebook.
5. Have A Break?
Environmental organization Greenpeace released quite a gruesome video. In it we see a guy in serious need for a break at work. When he opens his Kit Kat, it turns out there is not a bar of chocolate inside but an orang-utan’s finger. This video is directed against Kit Kat producing company Nestlé. According to Greenpeace’s report Nestlé takes palm oil from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian palm oil production company that proposes a threat to orang-utans by chopping the woods in their habitat. The video has been viewed 316,000 times in 9 days.
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thumbs up to ‘merton’ i think it’s really funny the improv he is doing using chatroulette. It just became something different from the site itself.
if this hype continues a little longer i wonder which other ‘ideas’ will come out of it.
Viral Friday: Ode To Merton -…
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos. This week’s Top 5 virals include: Chatroulette Piano Ode To Merto…