Hitler Downfall: Constantine Film vs The World

 Online Communities, social media, social networks  11 Responses »
Apr 232010
 

Mashable reported this morning that, after the Hitler Downfall meme had done it’s work and made tonnes of money for Constantine Films, that Constantine Films was forcing the parody videos to be removed. The intriguing piece of news for me was the fact that YouTube seemed to be taking the side of us naughty content “pirates” complete with instructions on the YouTube blog on how to fight the charge. As one of the affected (see my Toyota Yaris Downfall post) I thought I’d check it out.

When I logged into YouTube all was fine. It seems that as the content uploader, I didn’t get any messages. However if I logged out and tried to view the video, then the warnings came:

Very weird.

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auDA misuse of power?

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Mar 222010
 

I registered OptusPoo.com.au about a year ago ,to create an online community of people annoyed with Optus. The same time that a number of others got fed up with Optus and created BadOptus etc, to be followed by other bad Optus sites. I’d had shocking service from Optus (the guy told me “yeah I know how to fix it but I’m not going to tell you”) and was in the mood to shine some social media spotlight on to poor customer service in Australia. There is no Optus branding, my site aggregates all discussions re: Optus on social networking sites. It Continue Reading…

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Australia 2009: ZDNet Predictions

 Enterprise 2.0, Featured, Online Communities, press, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks  1 Response »
Jan 232009
 

Neerav and I were asked, amongst others for our predictions on 2009. Technology, social media, computing, enterprise etc. Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up Carlton Taya Avaya South Pacific MD Craig Scroggie Symantec A/NZ MD Chris Disspain auDA CEO David Jackman Pronto Software MD Deena Shiff Telstra Business group MD Dereck Daymond Sybase A/NZ MD Doug Farber salesforce.com APAC VP operations Geoffrey Dirago Attain IT GM Gerard Florian Dimension Data Australia CTO Greg Spears Vodafone spokesperson James Turner IBRS analyst Joe Kremer Dell Australia MD Kevin McIsaac IBRS analyst Laurel Papworth social networks strategist (ME!) Mark Phibbs Adobe APAC marketing director Continue Reading…

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