Archive for the ‘Video’ category

New SimCity Game will be Available on 2012

March 7th, 2012

10 years after the last SimCity game, SimCity 4, Maxis unveiled plans to resurrect the 23-year-old metropolis-building franchise.

The new PC game will have features like the ability to add curvy roads, multiplayer games and new and improved disasters (great…).

Here’s the announcement trailer for the new SimCity game:

Upgrading Windows. All of them.

March 3rd, 2011

This person is really dedicated – he created a video depicting him upgrading Microsoft Windows from the very first version to Windows 7.

Geeks and techies – grab a cup of coffee and enjoy 10 minutes of nostalgia and blue installation screens:

FBI Raids Anonymous

January 31st, 2011

The FBI has executed 40 arrest warrants throughout the US in an investigation against the online group Anonymous.

These arrests came as a response to recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in defense of WikiLeaks in 2010. The attacks targeted Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Amazon, all of which stopped providing services to WikiLeaks after it started the distribution of thousands of leaked diplomatic cables.

In their statement, the FBI said that these arrests are “as part of an ongoing investigation into recent coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations”.

ars technica has some really interesting personal stories from people who got arrested and searched by the FBI.

I Know Just How This Feels

January 14th, 2011

Sure, sometimes it’s cool to teach people to use the computer.

But sometimes, you really just wanna kill them. I just know how this feels:

Top 10 Commercial Viral Videos – December 2010

January 1st, 2011

December has ended, and so has the year 2010. If you haven’t seen our top 10 videos for 2010, now’s the time!

In the mean time, you can also check out the top commercial virals for December 2010, as tracked by Unruly Media.

Yet again, sports dominate the chart, with commercials for DC shoes and Nike. Roller Babies, a tremendously successful ad, is again a viral hit this month.

According to a study from TubeMogul, approximately 80% of marketers that are using online video on their sites, do so to increase visitor engagement, or time spent on the site. About 60% use online video to strengthen their brand, and almost 60% use video to increase the amount of overall visitors.

Top 10 Commercial Viral Videos – December 2010

  1. DC Shoes – Ken Block’s Gymkhana Three, Part 2 – Ultimate Playground, L’Autodrome
  2. Danny MacAskill – Way Back Home
  3. TAC Campaign – 20-Year Anniversary Retrospective
  4. Coca-Cola: Snow Globes: Coca-Cola 2010 Christmas Commercial
  5. Nike Basketball: Michael Jordan’s Response to LeBron James What Should I Do Commercial
  6. Evian – Roller Babies
  7. T-Mobile – Welcome Back
  8. NSFW – A Hunter Shoots A Bear
  9. DC Shoes – Ken Block’s Gymkhana Two, The Infomercial
  10. Heineken – The Entrance