10 Videos that made YouTube Famous!!

"Lazy Sunday," featuring Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell, is YouTube's first greatest hit, and it's an example of the sort of content--short-form comedy--that is ideal for the YouTube format. "Lazy Sunday" was posted the day after it aired and quickly became one of the most-viewed videos on the site. NBC's lawyers freaked and asked YouTube to remove the video after 5 million viewings, but it has been reposted and removed numerous times since. Its popularity led NBC to make the video available through Apple's iTunes and has driven the availability of online "snippet" content culled from broadcast television.




Created and posted in March by Philip de Vellis, a democratic operative with connections to the Barack Obama campaign, the Hillary "mash-up" contains clips of Ms. Clinton's speeches inserted into a famous 1984 ad for Apple Computer. De Vellis lost his job at Blue State Digital, a design firm working on Democratic campaigns, after his identity was revealed on HuffingtonPost.com. Simple and direct, it remains the best example of YouTube's potential as a venue for political warfare, skillfully playing on Clinton's reputation as a purveyor of canned sentiment.




Warning: Do not watch this video more than two times in one day. Excess viewing may result in humming the addictive chorus until epilepsy sets in. As music videos go, it is a perfect storm of YouTube popularity--an endlessly catchy tune, a simple yet original execution (how many times did they have to rehearse that eight-treadmilled routine until they got it right in one long take?) and a proud trumpeting of a low-budget ethos.



This spot on the list could just as easily have been given to music videos from artists like My Chemical Romance, Fallout Boy or the easily excited Fergie. The popularity of teenybop-pop, pop-punk and hip-pop on YouTube is an unfortunate side-effect of the site's democratic, populist ethos. And the frequency with which this category of poptastic videos makes it into the "Most Viewed" category is a testament to the apocalyptic horrors that await us should we ever give 13-year-old girls the right to vote.



This is perhaps the best example of YouTube's strength as a talent showcase. With the understated simplicity of its title (simply, "Guitar"), the no-frills presentation of its subject and its jaw-dropping impressiveness, it is perhaps the purest example of a YouTube video. "Guitar" earns its perpetual place on YouTube's "Most Viewed" list by virtue of its unstoppable rock dominance. This kid shreds. And it is at the center of a whole sub-genre of YouTube videos: the webcam guitar solo.



Far and away the most-viewed video on YouTube, "Evolution of Dance" is one of the more interesting of a related YouTube sub-genre: regular people videotaped on stage. The site has blossomed as a forum for strange, impressive or hilarious acts--whether it's college students reenacting "Super Mario Brothers" or "inspirational comedian" Judson Laipply running through every popular dance craze of the past 50 years--to gain exposure beyond the original, usually small, audience.



Call it "Doofus in a Room with a Webcam"--these videos are often interchangeable, distinguishable by the fact that they are usually desperate attempts for YouTube notoriety. They can be cute, like two girls in a bedroom singing along to the Pixies, or grating, like the Smosh guys singing along to the Pokemon theme song. In the competition for YouTube fame, they are like the kid in the plastic costume at the Halloween party--examples of the bare-minimum effort required to enter.



A 16-year-old home-schooled American teenager named Bree narrates her story into a webcam, leading viewers on a voyage of life, love, the occult, abduction and self-obsession. Except she's really an actress, and the series is a hoax--scripted content passing itself off as a webcam confessional. When the ruse was exposed, it was an international news event, and millions of consumers heard the word "YouTube" for the first time. In the time since, Bree and friends have continued to post further webisodes that are, collectively, somehow more boring than the Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode they inspired.




Stephen Colbert's feisty performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner generated a lot of heat among the Beltway punditry, but it generated even more heat on YouTube, where it was heavily downloaded in the weeks following the event. At the demand of cable network C-SPAN, which initially broadcast the dinner, it has since been removed from YouTube's servers. Google Video now holds the exclusive right to show the video. Clips from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report and The Daily Show were among the most popular clips on YouTube during its formative months and helped build the site's popularity; now the two shows can generally only be seen on Comedy Central's Web site.



The weepy guitar ballad. The long-haired guy with the velour jacket. The location inside a mall. There are so many reasons to hate this saccharine video, with music by the misnamed Sick Puppies--which makes the fact that it is strangely affecting that much more frustrating. Along with cutesy clips like "Hahaha" (an infectious laughing baby) and countless silly animal clips, it's consistently ranked among YouTube's most-viewed videos.

Worlds Biggest Whiners...!!

French workers are the world's biggest whiners, according to a study published Monday which said the Irish complain least about their lot.

Britons come second to their Gallic cousins in the moaning stakes, followed by Sweden, the United States and Australia. Japanese workers have the lowest morale, but don't complain so much.
The lowest levels of whining were found in the Netherlands, Thailand and Ireland, according to the study by the FDS research group.
It is interesting to note that after France, Britain and Sweden, the world's biggest workplace whiners are Americans, despite their having by far the highest levels of income," said FDS chief Charlotte Cornish.
"Compare them to Thai workers: while real levels of income are more than eight times higher in the States, more workers in the US feel their pay is a problem than in Thailand," she added.
The study, entitled "What Workers Want, A Worldwide Study of Attitudes to Work and Work-Life Balance", draws on data from 14,000 employees in 23 countries.
They were notably asked about their satisfaction with issues including pay levels and their work-life balance, as well as average working hours.
In terms of worker morale, Dutch workers are the happiest, followed by their Thai and Irish counterparts. The lowest morale of all is found in Japan, followed by Germany, said the study.
The study's authors noted that rightwing French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy shouldn't expect things to become happier anytime soon, as he prepares to shake up notoriously strike-prone France.
"The UK and US, with their marked competitive individualism and unequal wealth distribution, both appear towards the top of the world's list of whingiest workers," said Cornish.
"The French come out on top -- it seems unlikely that Nicolas Sarkozy's election and the likely shift to more Anglo-Saxon economic practices will make the workers in France any more happy with their lot," she added.

The most expensive car number-plate(tag) in the WORLD!!

Emirati Talal Khouri holds up the most expensive car number-plate in the world after purchasing the plate for 25.2 million dirhams (6.86 million US dollars, 5.07 million euros) at a special car number-plate auction at the Emirates palace hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Chicken LifeStyle..!!

Cow Protest!! Lol!!

Biggest Summer Movie Box Officer Ever!!

#25: 'The Hulk'
Release date: June 20, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $62,128,420
Total box office: $132,175,874

#24: 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace'
Release date: May 19, 1999
Opening weekend box office: $64,810,970
Total box office: $431,088,295

#23: 'Rush Hour 2'
Release date: Aug. 3, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $67,408,222
Total box office: $226,164,286

#22: 'The Mummy Returns'
Release date: May 4, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $68,139,035
Total box office: $202,019,785

#21: 'Planet of the Apes'
Release date: July 27, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $68,532,960
Total box office: $180,011,740

#20: 'Finding Nemo'
Release date: May 30, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $70,251,710
Total box office: $339,714,978

#19: 'Mission: Impossible II'
Release date: May 24, 2000
Opening weekend box office: $70,816,215 (4-day take)
Total box office: $215,409,889

#18: 'Austin Powers in Goldmember'
Release date: July 26, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $73,071,188
Total box office: $213,117,789

#17: 'Pearl Harbor'
Release date: May 25, 2001
Opening weekend box office: $75,177,654 (4-day take)
Total box office: $198,542,554

#16: 'War of the Worlds'
Release date: June 29, 2005
Opening weekend box office: $77,061,953 (4-day take)
Total box office: $234,280,354

#15: 'The Da Vinci Code'
Release date: May 19, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $77,073,388
Total box office: $217,536,138

#14: 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'
Release date: May 16, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $80,027,814
Total box office: $310,676,740

#13: 'X2: X-Men United'
Release date: May 2, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $85,558,731
Total box office: $214,949,694

#12: 'Bruce Almighty'
Release date: May 23, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $85,734,045 (4-day take)
Total box office: $242,704,995

#11: 'The Day After Tomorrow'
Release date: May 28, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $85,807,341 (4-day take)
Total box office: $186,740,799

#10: 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'
Release date: May 23, 1997
Opening weekend box office: $90,161,880 (4-day take)
Total box office: $229,086,679

#9: 'The Matrix Reloaded'
Release date: May 15, 2003
Opening weekend box office: $91,774,413
Total box office: $281,519,061

#8: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'
Release date: June 4, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $93,687,367
Total box office: $249,538,952

#7: 'Shrek 2'
Release date: May 19, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $108,037,878
Total box office: $436,721,703

#6: 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith'
Release date: May 19, 2005
Opening weekend box office: $108,435,841
Total box office: $380,270,577

#5: 'Spider-Man'
Release date: May 3, 2002
Opening weekend box office: $114,844,116
Total box office: $403,706,375

#4: 'Spider-Man 2'
Release date: June 30, 2004
Opening weekend box office: $115,817,364 (4-day take)
Total box office: $373,377,893

#3: 'X-Men: The Last Stand'
Release date: May 26, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $122,861,157 (4-day take)
Total box office: $234,362,462

#2: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
Release date: July 7, 2006
Opening weekend box office: $135,634,554
Total box office: $423,315,812

#1: 'Spider-Man 3'
Release date: May 4, 2007
Opening weekend box office: $151,116,516
Total box office: ??

Watch the COKE fountain!!

i was pretty amazed when i had a look at this ad while i was quivering over the internet and thought of having in my personal blog!!