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3 Winning Alternatives to Online Sweepstakes

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass , which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump , and works for the Real Time Marketing Group . For some time now, companies have been utilizing online promotions as a means to increase brand excitement and build a strong following. While there are many different types of promotions, sweepstakes appear to be more and more popular
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HOW TO: Watch the 2010 Emmy Awards Online [VIDEO]

As per usual, there’s no legal way to stream video of the whole 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony live online, but there are a few ways you can use the web to supplement your TV viewing experience. This year the options include Facebook and Twitter -integrated, live red carpet and backstage video from Ustream as well as live blogs from Team Coco , Entertainment Weekly and others. You can also turn to the crowd for info by following Twitter updates about the ceremony, or checking Justin.tv for live video coverage beyond Ustream’s channel. Once you’ve looked at these options for following updates about the ceremony, feel free to dig deeper with our earlier roundup of the ways the Emmy Awards are going social this year.
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10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube [VIDEOS]

YouTube isn’t just for kittens, cute kids, and confabulating celebrities. It’s also home to some of the most inspiring moments from history ever captured on camera. Here, we’ve selected 10 videos highlighting some of the most amazing scenes that can be witnessed on-demand through the world’s most popular online video platform.
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos this Week: The Science Edition

Do you ever stare off into the cosmos, wondering about all the matter and particles swirling about in the universe? Or gaze into the spiraling petals of a rose and contemplate the Golden Ratio and all it connotes? No? Well, take some time out from your weekend of quietly quaffing to think, really think, about why, oh why the forces of nature chose to forge us within this mighty smithy we call life
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HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your Business Facebook Page

Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations , an Internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog . Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing . So you paid attention to what everyone is saying and you created a Facebook Page for your business. You’ve got your press release links, photos and videos … but no one seems to care.
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Viral Blog Pays Tribute to YouTube’s Least Viral Videos

Forget viral vids, here’s the new hot: Videos that no one has ever watched . That’s the premise of this genius single-serving Tumblr blog, 0 Views: The Best of the Bottom of the Barrel . Blurry clips of smiling children, commercials for “Reiki masters,” Bieber-obsessed girls gazing into mirrors — this here is a treasure trove of entertainment, people. And under each video, the sad epitaph: “Had 0 views on [insert date here].” That’s right, the entire blog is basically a stream of terrible, terrible neglected videos — that is, until they were featured on said blog.
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Clicker Brings 1,800 Web Series to the iPhone

Web video database Clicker.com has launched its iOS app for the iPhone , iPad and iPod touch . An iPad-specific version is also coming sometime soon. The app allows users to search, watch and discuss 1,800 web shows (there are about 200,000 episodes in all), and download and watch 12,000 additional shows from iTunes — though you could obviously do that last part on your iPhone already.
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Cat Edition

It’s Friday. Anyone else feel like their brain is leaking out of their eye sockets, pooling on the floor like pink — wait, ew. Anyway, everyone’s probably feeling a little fuzzy at present, which is why this week’s YouTube roundup is of the soft and furry variety: Cats.
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YouTube Launches Charts to Rank Top Web Videos

YouTube has just announced it will be featuring its top videos in a new section called YouTube Charts . This page will keep you updated on which videos are trending right now, which are all-time classics, how various vids stack up against one another and more. Think of it as the Billboard Hot 100 for the world of web video. We’re guessing this will pretty much settle the Gaga v. Bieber YouTube debate once and for all as well as surface interesting and timely content from around the ‘Tube
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Viral Videos and Flickr Photos Could Help You Circumvent Censorship

A group of researchers at Georgia Tech may have an answer to the epidemic of government censorship we’ve seen marring communications in many international spheres of late: a system they’re calling “Collage” that will allow people to hide messages in user-generated content, to be disseminated via platforms like Twitter , Flickr and YouTube . That’s right, Keyboard Cat could become a harbinger of covert news. So how does this process work? Sam Burnett, one of the researchers involved in the project, described the system to us in layman’s terms: “Someone uploads pictures containing hidden messages to Flickr, then someone else comes along and downloads them and decodes the message
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