YouTube Stars!

Time to watch a few more videos! This time, we'll learn about becoming an internet millionaire, see surfing sheep, watch a flute concert, and check in with Jane!

But first, the News. The L.A. Times reported this week that LittleLoca (Stevie Ryan) has been signed as one of four hosts of the new CW reality series "Online Nation," making her one of the few YouTube stars to land a paid TV gig. Congrats, LittleLoca!!!

In other news, the 2BuxMall is moving along well in Beta testing. Soon, videomakers will have a new way to promote themselves and things they might have for sale.

There's still not a whole lot of movement on the Top 100 Weekly Chart, but I predict that this summer, we'll see some new rising YouTubeStars!

If you're a musician, or just want your videos to play in the highest quality possible, join LiveVideo and upload your videos there. Sure, you already upload to YouTube, but why not get even more exposure by uploading to LiveVideo too!!! Click the blue "Less Tube. More You!" picture at the top of the left column to go to LiveVideo, now!


Joe Castillo - Movie Extra Extraordinaire

Here's another creative and funny video from MysteryGuitarMan. It's really two videos in one. Joe talks about his movie career but there's mention of the Next Internet Millionaire. What's that all about? It's a new reality show and MGM wants to be on it. So go vote for him at The Next Internet Millionaire!!! To learn more about becoming an Internet Millionaire, please visit this website:








If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube!


The Lambs Are Back

What's cuter than baby Lambs? Not much! Okay, so they aren't surfing; they're running around Becxie's green fields in Wales. But Becky chose WipeOut, that 60s surf classic, as the soundtrack for this cute movie - a fun song for a fun film. Watch it with the whole family!


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube!

Telemann Flute Fantasie in b minor

It's not all guitar and piano playing musicians on YouTube. There are flute players too. Among the best is ninaflute. Nina Perlove has performed as a flutist throughout the United States and Europe, and teaches at Northern Kentucky University. Listen to this excellent classical flute performance!


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube!


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JaneMcwhir is a teenage girl who lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. She has been making videos on YouTube for over a year now. In her words, "she is a weird, Quirky Teenage Girl" but her fans have made her one of the most popular vloggers in the history of YouTube. Jane has over 6000 subscribers and was in the Top 100 most subscribed earlier in her career. Watch this video, in which she recommends some songs to listen to, and commenters recommend songs to her. Then check out others from her 54 video collection. You'll like what you see!


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube!

Labels: 2BuxMall, becxie, janemcwhir, lamb, LittleLoca, LiveVideo, MGM, MysteryGuitarMan, ninaflute

posted by KennyCrane at 5/21/2007 03:02:00 AM 1 Comments

This is a copy of a post made to the 2BuxMall Blog.


Periurban and Renetto, two popular YouTube videomakers, have recently made videos about a meeting they had in which a new video sharing concept was discussed. This new concept may seek to fix some of the problems that the YouTube users community has been experiencing, such as communication problems via video comments and YouTube messages, and abuse of some of the Terms of Service by many members. This new concept may also lead to individual ownership of their own channels and a democratic system of governing the operations.

From what I am able to see, this new concept seems to be a very good idea! It is worth trying, and I am very interested to see if this concept is implemented and to see what they put in place to deal with some of these issues.

Our 2BuxMall system addresses some of these same issues. We hope to roll out the system in a slow and orderly manner, addressing issues as they develop. 2BuxMall Store owners are selected by invitation only, so we can match the volume of business with our ability to provide the community with good service.

Individual owners will have a good deal of control over their own Stores. They can customize its appearance and decide what to promote or sell. We intend to provide a micropayment system to make it easy to pay for purchases made through our system.

I don't think our system could be classified as being run in a democratic way. It will be the case that everyone who becomes a user will have been invited by someone who already is a user. We feel that responsible community members will recommend other responsible people for invitation. There will also be a Level system which may help people to feel a certain amount of trust in users who have moved up in Level, which would indicate that they are active and positive members of our community.

I think that any discussion of the way in which positive people can group together in a community that can be helpful to themselves and others, is a good discussion to have! Here are the videos from Periurban and Renetto on this subject. We hope to participate in this creation of a better experience for the videomaking community.


An Open Letter To Renetto (Periurban)


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube.


The Future of YouTube... is it really up to us? (Renetto)


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube.

Labels: 2Bux, 2BuxMall, community, future, PeriUrban, renetto, YouTube

posted by KennyCrane at 4/18/2007 11:32:00 PM 0 Comments

I've been hearing about a lot of YouTubers becoming involved in interesting projects lately. Recently, I wrote about LittleLoca's movie project and Geriatric1927's music making project. Today I'll tell you about some other projects that you might want to check out. We'll see and hear the latest music project from capo420420, learn about an interesting, active and growing forum for discussing videos, and get an update from Periurban on a community project that he may be working on with Renetto and others.

First, let's have a look at this week's YouTube Top 100 Weekly Chart. There is hardly any movement at all in the Top 20. I did notice an interesting person at the number 80 position this week, up 12 from last week - applemilk1988. Emily (visit her website) is a soon-to-be 18 year old from Florida who has made 41 vlog and random comedy videos since she joined YouTube last October. She has been experiencing a surge in subscriptions lately. It was only a week ago that she made a vlog about approaching 9000 subscribers. Now she is over 10,400! Check out her videos (including this secret one) and see why she is getting a lot of attention lately.

At the tail end of the chart, we welcome Spricket24. Karen, one of my favorite videomakers, debuts this week at number 98. Long time popular videomaker Morbeck is hanging on at number 99 this week, down 2 from last week. Lets see if he's still on the chart next week!


youtube forum TubeRavers.com 2

In January, along with a new year came a new forum to discuss videos - TubeRavers.com. Three months later, over 150 members are posting on this active and interesting forum. Admin StormBeforeTheCalm (watch this thought-provoking vid by Sean) has been doing an excellent job of setting up many interesting features on this forum. I contributed by adding a video details box that shows up to the right of videos that users embed in their posts. Watch this little intro video to TubeRavers, then go and join our fun group!


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube.

Charlotte North Carolina's Jeff Williams "Helpless"

There are very few YouTubers like capo420420. Jeff is a man with a heart as big as the sounds that he gets from his guitar. Anyone who has gotten to know Mister Williams knows of his enthusiasm, love of the community and his passion for music. Jeff shows his support for the community by helping other musicians and videomakers. He helps others by encouraging them to respond to his videos, which help them to get viewed. His amazing Blindfolded video has 124 response vids and his PROFILE ICON PaRTy, where people respond with their profile pics, has 127 responses, WOW! Jeff is a popular man with over 3100 subscribers but he still finds the time to create projects like these response video parties which are very helpful to the community. Let's check out this YouTubeStar's latest video!


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube.

An Open Letter To Renetto

What's up with Periurban's latest video? Peri, well known singer/songwriter (I love this song of his!) has been trying to keep a secret. I'm not sure what it is! At first, I thought he knew some inside info about YouTube's long rumored but yet to be seen revenue sharing plan (see this vid). Then I watched this mysterious video where he vlogged about being handed a big secret (from Renetto?) Now, some of the secret has been revealed! Peri has been wonderful at starting interesting discussions in the community and this time I'm sure there will be lots of interesting comments. Watch this then leave YOUR comment.


If you can't see the video above, watch it on YouTube.


We're doing a project too! Please have a look at our 2Bux web application. We're getting ready to roll out and test the 2BuxMall section of this project. A big thank-you to the persons who have volunteered for beta testing! We have our team set up now and next week, we'll get started in this exciting experiment. Let's see where we can take this!

Labels: 2Bux, 2BuxMall, capo420420, PeriUrban, renetto, tuberavers

posted by KennyCrane at 4/16/2007 01:56:00 AM 1 Comments