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| 27.08.2025 | Lloyd Kaufman’s campy TromaDance is crashing Sundance’s Boulder debut (with a middle finger) | Kaufman added: “There is nothing else like TromaDance. Filmmakers who can’t get past all the gatekeeping from every other festival out there, for their strange experimental work to be shown, can find a home in TromaDance. We are the squires... |
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| 23.03.2021 | Roku Launches Ad Content Studio With Funny Or Die Talent | |
| 03.03.2020 | Thought The Risk Was Gone From Airline Stocks? Coronavirus Says Think Again. | There’s a good reason why U.S. and foreign security regulators require publicly traded companies to include warnings with all their public statements explaining that there are inherent risks in investing and that there are no guarantees tha... |
| 01.02.2020 | At CAA, Michael Yanover is still betting startups can change Hollywood’s agencies | In a large office scattered with drums, family mementos, and a well-used whiteboard, on the second floor of Creatlve Artist Agency‘s Los Angeles glass, steel, and marble headquarters, Michael Yanover is busy plotting which CAA-repped talent... |
| 27.10.2017 | Startup studios go Hollywood as CAA launches Creative Labs | The ties that bind the tech industry and Hollywood continue to get tighter as the Creative Artists Agency launches a startup studio to develop new businesses with — and for — its roster of clients.
Continuing a tradition that began with the... |
| 24.07.2017 | New Funny or Die series, The Real Stephen Blatt, streams exclusively on Amazon Prime Video | Funny or Die is launching an all-new miniseries, The Real Stephen Blatt, which will be streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime video.
Though some Funny or Die content is currently available on Amazon Prime, such as The Very Best of Will Ferrel... |
| 12.07.2017 | Net neutrality supporters say online rally is just the start of the fight to keep tough FCC rules | Reporting from Washington —
Some of the Web’s biggest names — Amazon, Google, Netflix and Twitter — joined thousands of smaller websites Wednesday in urging users to tell Washington to leave the Internet the way it is.
On website banners, p... |
| 15.11.2016 | AMC Networks backs Funny or Die | Comedy site Funny or Die has sold a minority stake to AMC Networks.
The deal is intended to strengthen the ties between Funny or Die and AMC’s IFC channel, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with IFC President Jennifer Caserta joining the... |
| 14.10.2016 | WristWhirl lets you control your smartwatch with hand gestures (and look mad while you do it) | It’s a funny thing: Smartwatches are supposed to be the more accessible alternative to your smartphone, but you can operate a phone with one hand, while the watch takes two. Luckily, Dartmouth researchers are on the case, and have engineere... |
| 22.09.2016 | Clinton yukks it up ‘Between Two Ferns’ | ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this undated image released by FunnyorDie.com, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, appears with actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis during an appearance for the online comedy series, “Between Two Ferns.... |
| 12.04.2016 | The chatbot gold rush is officially here | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 12.04.2016 | The chatbot gold rush is officially here | Leave it to Zuck to strut out at F8 and make the announcement about chatbots: They’re happening. As a major component of Facebook’s new Messenger Platform, chatbots will enable businesses to develop a personalized layer of communication and... |
| 07.04.2016 | Thao Nguyen Gets Down and Gets Personal: "Everyone Is Just Trying To Communicate" | Photos by Maria Kanevskaya, courtesy of Thao Nguyen
Thao Nguyen is honored if you cry to her songs. And the ones on her new album A Man Alive, with her band Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, will probably make you do exactly that.
“I don’t... |
| 13.10.2015 | TC Cribs: Funny Or Die Takes Us Behind The Scenes And Between Two Ferns | This week on Cribs we continue our string of Hollywood startups at Funny or Die headquarters in Los Angeles, California.
This is the fourth office for the digital content company since its start in 2007. And for some reason this time the wa... |
| 10.07.2015 | The Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 10: The Rise Of Niche Video Streaming Services) | While today’s cord cutters are replacing their former TV-viewing activities with popular streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, the shift away from linear television on to on-demand, online streams has allowed a variety of niche ... |
| 09.04.2015 | Funny or Die is coming to DC [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Opower is partnering with Oracle Utilities to make the utilities’ analytics platforms compatible with Opower’s platform. “Working with Oracle is indicative of our commitment to making the Opower platform more intelligent... |
| 11.03.2015 | Funny or Die Takes on the Apple Watch | The inevitble avalanche of accessories meant to maximize the experience of Apple's new smart watch has already begun, but Funny or Die takes the iCake with the 33 ideas they suggest in a new video satirizing the Apple Watch's dramatic unvei... |
| 06.01.2015 | ACA enrollment went up with help from Bradley Cooper and “Between Two Ferns” | At an event with White House officials, Cooper said he spoke with White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett about ways to boost enrollment among young people. Before the video was posted, enrollment was lagging thanks largely to the botche... |
| 18.12.2014 | How El-P Helped Get Nick Thorburn the Gig to Create the Theme Music for 'Serial' | When it comes to great storytelling in film and television, directors and producers and writers still get most of the credit. And yet, at the core of every masterwork is a carefully crafted piece of music: Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is buoyed ... |
| 31.10.2014 | Everything you need to know about Hollaback’s catcalling video | By now there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the video from Fort Greene’s Hollaback, a fundraising PSA for a new organization that’s working to confront street harassment. The organization was recently the recipient of a Knight Foundation Pro... |
| 10.07.2014 | Obama's 'Between Two Ferns' Episode Nominated for an Emmy | An episode of online comedy series “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis” featuring President Barack Obama was among the Emmy nominees announced Thursday morning.
The six-minute, 30-second episode featuring the President has been nomina... |
| 01.07.2014 | There Was Just a Historic Legal Ruling for People Who Yell About Howard Stern's Penis | Screencapped from a montage on Funny or Die
Howard Stern fans like to give him free publicity. One tactic, "Booey Bombing," involves getting behind reporters and yelling "Baba Booey! Howard Stern's penis!" Yes, it's anno... |
| 19.05.2014 | Meet the Adorable Husky Who Thinks She's a Cat | Everyone, meet Tally. She’s a husky mix who grew up in a group of cats and was apparently very influenced by them because now she totally acts like a cat. Her owners kindly went ahead and posted a series of pictures on Imgur, so we can all ... |
| 13.05.2014 | Apple’s Beats Acquisition Is Its First Step To Buying Everything, Says Funny Or Die | Update: Apple announced the $3 billion deal on May 28th.
Apple’s supposed Beats acquisition had analysts and journalists scrambling to reason out its logic in doing so, as on the surface it isn’t in keeping with their normal M&A strateg... |
| 02.05.2014 | Windows XP Declines To Die, Sheds Mere 1.5% Market Share In April | Massive worries about security? Check. Officially past its support date? Yep. More than a decade old in an industry that values youth not as a virtue, but as a weapon? Certainly. But akin to the diminutive animal, Windows XP doesn’t care.
T... |
| 04.04.2014 | A Little Honesty: Comcast Doesn't Give A F**k What You Think Of Its Merger | We recently covered how Comcast’s top exec in charge of getting its merger with Time Warner Cable approved has insisted that only ignorant and unreasonable people oppose the merger. And yet… somehow, the public (ignorant and unreasonable as... |
| 27.03.2014 | Obamacare Passes The 6M Mark After “Between Two Ferns” Viral Bump | Today the government announced that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has passed the 6 million signup mark, putting it within striking distance of its original goals.
The enrollment level is notable due to the law’s troubl... |
| 24.03.2014 | Quora Launches Verified Profiles Starting With Obama, Who’ll Answer Affordable Care Questions | To boost confidence in answers, host exclusive content, and bring in new audiences, Quora today launched Verified Profiles. First up is President Obama who will answer two Affordable Care Act questions today in an effort to drive signups be... |
| 11.03.2014 | Zach Galifianakis Is Now The Top Driver Of Traffic To HealthCare.gov | President Obama’s somewhat testy but endlessly hilarious Between Two Ferns clip with Zach Galifianakis is storming the Internet this morning, racking up more than 3 million views in just a few hours.
Even more, it appears that the president... |
| 11.03.2014 | Obama teams up with Galifianakis to push HealthCare.gov to skeptical young folks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 11.03.2014 | Watch President Barack Obama Insult Zach Galifianakis On ‘Between Two Ferns’ For HealthCare.gov | President Barack Obama made a special appearance on an extremely unlikely program in the talk show circuit – or rather, way off the circuit, on “The Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis’ Funny Or Die web exclusive Between Two Ferns. Galifianaki... |
| 11.03.2014 | POTUS Funny or Die clip now #1 driver to Healthcare.gov | Barack Obama's mock interview with Zach Galifianakis draws record 7M views
Chances are, you’ve probably seen Zack Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns interview with the POTUS himself, Barack Obama (sp?) already. If you haven’t, then it’s probab... |
| 11.03.2014 | Obama tapes ‘Funny or Die’ interview | FUNNY OR DIE
NEW YORK >> Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication.
The president urged young people to sign up for the new health care plan through an appearance... |
| 05.03.2014 | That Fake Hoverboard Video? Funny Or Die Says They Made It | If you were somehow still holding out hope that the hoverboard in that (very, very clearly fake) video from yesterday was in any way real: cue up the sad trombone.
“Why Are All These Celebrities Participating In An Epic Fake Hoverboard Trol... |
| 24.10.2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| 08.10.2013 | Rebecca Romijn Offers Her Support | http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/04252b06cf/the-hand-bra-by-rebecca-romijn
The ever-sultry Rebecca Romijn has surfaced in an uplifting video offering support for millions of women everywhere. It’s not the emotional kind of support. Nope! It... |
| 16.08.2013 | Before “Jobs”: The Films That Captured The Apple Visionary | Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.
Mix one part college dropout, two parts entrepreneurial spirit, three parts vision . . . and you’ve got a one-of-a-kind Steve Jobs. The movie starring Ashto... |
| 07.05.2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| 17.04.2013 | 78-minute Steve Jobs comedy film iSteve now online | A scene where young Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak meet Bill Gates.
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| 17.04.2013 | iSteve: Funny or Die’s hilarious take on the Apple story now free to watch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you thought Pirates of Silicon Valley was inac... |
| 17.04.2013 | Booting Up: Silk Road Founder Unruffled by Bitcoin Ups and Downs | Oh hello.
There are now 150 million Snapchats sent every day. Very few of them are sent by people older than 30. [Business Insider]
Facebook is testing ads in your Graph Search, but so far they’re not based on your searches. (So you won’t g... |
| 17.04.2013 | iSteve: Funny or Die’s hilarious take on the Apple story now free to watch | If you thought Pirates of Silicon Valley was inaccurate, just wait until you see what the Funny or Die folks have done with its recounting of Steve Jobs’ life, iSteve.
The comedy site last night released the 80-minute film — its longest pro... |
| 12.04.2013 | This Isn’t How You Win The Marketing War For The One, HTC, All James Van Der Beek Aside | HTC promised it would be spending more on marketing efforts to ditch the “quietly brilliant” tagline and come up with something with more pop, but it couldn’t have gone much worse than the video above. Kudos to signing on Dawson’s Creek and... |
| 03.04.2013 | YouTube Takes Down Music Video For 'Terms Of Service' Violation; Refuses To Explain Or Put Back | Art Neill, from the very cool non-profit group New Media Rights (which provides legal services/advocacy for internet users and creators), alerts us to an unfortunate story involving YouTube pulling down a band’s video, claiming terms of ser... |
| 02.04.2013 | Funny or Die releases a teaser trailer for iSteve, its Apple movie | If I was casting a film about Steve Jobs’s life, a comic actor probably wouldn’t be my first choice for the title role. But clearly I know nothing about such things. Because first we had Two and a Half Men’s Ashton Kutcher playing the Machi... |
| 02.04.2013 | Funny Or Die’s Steve Jobs Movie Trailer Looks To Strike A Perfect Balance Of All Hype, No Substance | iSteve Exclusive Teaser Trailer from iSteve
Steve Jobs was a rare CEO in that he inspired myths and legends not just among employees, but also among the general public. An executive whose name is recognizable to people not involved in his i... |
| 02.04.2013 | FunnyorDie’s first iSteve trailer now online | reader comments 17 with 15 posters participating
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| 18.03.2013 | Funny or Die’s full-length Steve Jobs movie written and shot in 8 days, set for April 15 release | Anyone else who wants to make a Steve Jobs movie? Get in line and take a number.
In case we needed yet another A Bug’s Life vs. Antz reminder that filmmakers and independent thinking are incompatible concepts, there’s yet another Steve Jobs... |
| 18.03.2013 | Funny or Die’s full-length Steve Jobs movie written and shot in 8 days, set for April 15 release | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 18.03.2013 | Oh Good, There’s Another Steve Jobs Biopic: Funny or Die Producing iSteve | (Photo: 9 to 5 Mac)
Just this weekend we were sitting around wondering when exactly someone would create another Steve Jobs biopic. We already have the indie one starring Ashton Kutcher and the fast-talking, sure-to-be-sexist incarnation dr... |
| 08.03.2013 | Noisey Tidbits Roundup | A weekly roundup of anything music-related that's made us excited about being able to hear things.
A 47-year-old Man Is Getting Sued $233,000 For Leaking A Beyonce Album
Earlier this week Torrentfreak reported that a Swedish man is to be su... |
| 07.03.2013 | Bringing the old school vibe back to SXSW | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 07.03.2013 | Bringing the old school vibe back to SXSW | John Boitnott is Senior Account Manager at Viralheat
Whether you think of it as some sort of bloated travesty, or what some call the Super Bowl of technology gatherings, SXSW is in no way like what it once was just 5 years ago.
Former Austi... |
| 15.11.2012 | THE LIGHTER SIDE: Interviewus interruptus | You’ve done the research, practised the spiel and now you’re ready for that big pitch or interview. What you didn’t count on was a frustrating case of interviewus interruptus. (Warning: Some coarse language)
Bad Interview from Enver Gjokaj
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| 06.08.2012 | Inside Funny Or Die’s Viral Video Machine | In a digital world of one-hit wonders, Funny or Die is the Beatles of the Internet, churning out viral hit after viral hit. As a result, the celebrity-laden sketch comedy site has become an oasis of financial success in an online video indu... |
| 01.08.2012 | Colonel Sanders May Prefer The White Meat, But He Loves The Gays | Although we’re not entirely sure of Mike Huckabee’s true intentions for scheduling a national “shove your face with Chick-fil-A” day, it’s happening today, all the same. Around the country, millions of people are lining up to buy a spicy ch... |
| 25.06.2012 | Louis C.K. Figures Out The True Purpose Of Twitter | In the past, comedian Louis C.K. has been fairly up front concerning his opinions of Twitter – he doesn’t really care for it. He once said that he “kinda hates” social media, in fact he “thinks it’s awful.” He has bemoaned the social media ... |
| 16.05.2012 | Funny Or Die Gets Strategic Investment From Turner, Looks To Accelerate Growth | Independent online video company Funny Or Die is about to get a lot of help from a traditional TV company, as it’s struck a strategic partnership with Turner Broadcasting to collaborate on multiplatform video content. As part of the deal, T... |
| 16.05.2012 |
Funny or Die Gets Investment From Turner Broadcasting
| Los Angeles-based humor site Funny or Die has received an investment from Turner Broadcasting, as part of a strategic deal between the companies for Turner to manage ad site sales for the company. Financial terms of the investment were not ... |
| 04.05.2012 | For talented, dedicated and hilarious local online comedy scene, where’s the audience? | It’s a total run time of 11:11 of pure black-and-white video, sitting in the center of a black page on an interactive flash website.
“I’m wrapped up in the custody battle over our dog Wrango. I mean, I don’t know who should get [Wrango] bec... |
| 22.04.2012 | Web Video Sucks, But Here’s How It Can Be Great | Editor’s Note: Jordan Kurzweil is Co-CEO of Independent Content, an agency that helps media companies launch new digital products and businesses. Prior to starting Independent Content, Jordan worked at AOL running original programming, and ... |
| 11.04.2012 | The Filtered Network: Instagram Invades The Facebook Story | Do you remember sitting in the theaters and seeing the preview for The Social Network for the first time? That super serious trailer with the creepy cover of Radiohead’s “Creep,” and the dark, foreboding David Fincher touch on what seemed t... |
| 15.11.2011 | Google TV 2.0: With apps and more, it’s finally ready for a close-up (review) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Almost a year after its launch, Google TV owners are finally beginning to receive a major update that will dramatically improve the ser... |
| 15.11.2011 | Google TV 2.0: With apps and more, it’s finally ready for a close-up (review) | Almost a year after its launch, Google TV owners are finally beginning to receive a major update that will dramatically improve the service with the addition of apps, a cleaner interface and more. But will the update make a dent in the many... |
| 28.07.2011 | Jason Alexander and the Netflix Relief Fund | First, they came for the DVDs…
Netflix Relief Fund with Jason Alexander from Jason Alexander |
| 01.04.2011 | April Fools 2011: The Big List | Yes, folks, that’s right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It’s April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we’ll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World... |
| 09.03.2011 | King of the Web Lets More People in on the Secret: It’s a Video-Heavy Popularity Contest with Cash Prizes | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
King of the Web, the social gaming startup led by some big names in Seattle tech, is opening up the private beta I speculated about earlier this month. Passwords were doled ou... |
| 11.02.2011 | Funny Or Die Explains The AOL-HuffPo Deal: "Bringing The Future Back To 1996" | Ever since AOL announced its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post, pundits have been asking what does it mean? Well, look no further. Funny or Die created the faux infommercial above that looks like it was shot 15 years ago. The ... |
| 24.11.2010 | Review: Logitech’s Revue with Google TV has potential, but isn’t for everyone (yet) | “Potential” is the key word when discussing Google TV. It has the potential to completely reshape the way we watch TV, the potential to change the way content providers do business, and the potential to give Google the sort of dominance in ... |
| 26.10.2010 | Vimeo gets optimized for Google TV with Couch Mode | Streaming video site Vimeo has jumped on the Google TV bandwagon with its new Couch Mode — a way to easily view the site’s videos uninterrupted like a TV channel.
Much like Google’s own YouTube LeanBack, a couch-friendly way to view YouTube... |
| 09.08.2010 | Web video company My Damn Channel zeroes in on branded and celebrity content | It wasn’t too long ago that YouTube was one of the only online video sites, and online video had no trouble drawing in an audience. Now that a host of new players have hit the scene, including Netflix and Hulu to name just two, companies vy... |
| 06.08.2010 | Friday IT Fun: Seven Days in the Making | News Friday IT Fun: Seven Days in the Making By Chris PaoliAugust 06, 2010
Aren't you glad we're here to tell you what is and what isn't good to look at online? If you've found something you think other IT pros will appreciate, send an e-ma... |
| 06.08.2010 | Friday IT Fun: Seven Days in the Making | News Friday IT Fun: Seven Days in the Making By Chris PaoliAugust 06, 2010
Aren't you glad we're here to tell you what is and what isn't good to look at online? If you've found something you think other IT pros will appreciate, send an e-ma... |
| 09.07.2010 | Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools | LOS ANGELES (AP) — When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar.
The satirical video featuring actors M... |
| 10.06.2010 | Redfin's CEO, Michael Arrington And Tom Cruise Walk Into A Room | With TechCrunch’s fifth birthday less than 24 hours away, a certain degree of navel gazing is appropriate, if not required. On Wednesday afternoon, TechCrunch founder and newly minted Seattle resident, Michael Arrington, dropped by Atlassia... |
| 24.05.2010 | Funny Or Die Pulling In Tens Of Millions In Revenue Thanks To Freedom, Cheapness | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, there was a panel with the video comedy house Funny Or Die. Mark Kvamme, a partner at Sequoia Capital (which invested in Funny Or Die) moderated a panel with Funny Or Die’s Dick Glover, Chris He... |
| 09.04.2010 | Ten Hilarious iPad Videos | Most of the discussions I've seen about the Apple (AAPL) iPad have been deadly serious. That's certainly the case on BNET. But after a long week of pontification, it's time to kick back. Here are 11 videos ,running from amusing to laugh-out... |
| 08.04.2010 | Kyte extends video platform to Boxee | Could bring online video publishers closer to that ultimate destination - our living room TV's
Kyte, an online video platform, announced on Thursday it has extended its services to Boxee, a media player which is optimized for consuming all ... |
| 01.04.2010 | April Fools’ Day quick reference guide | Bookmark this page. We’ll update it with popular April Fools’ hoaxes we learn about today, so you don’t get fooled at work.
We’re not trying to catalog every single phony press release on the Internet today. You can get that on Twitter.
Thi... |
| 04.03.2010 | Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Dana Carvey hawk Consumer Protection Agency (video) | A gang of current and former “Saturday Night Live” comedians, including Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, have joined together to do a video promoting the proposal for a new Consumer Protection Agency, which is supposed to act as watchdog over c... |
| 15.10.2009 | THE LIGHTER SIDE: Accounting help wanted | Working out how accounting software works can be difficult at the best of times, so it’s not surprising that this US television show’s live help line would get a call from a confused punter. We’re just not sure what sort of help this (prank... |
| 30.07.2009 | Funny or Die goes mobile by pairing up with Babelgum | Lovers of Animals Do The Funniest Things-type video fluffery, rejoice! Mobile and web content platform Babelgum just announced a partnership with top humour site Funny or Die. You’ll soon be able to get your fix of comedy on the move via a ... |
| 23.04.2009 | 5 of My Favorite Web Sites | There are times when I go Web surfing for work, scoping out the latest industry news and the newest products to write about for you, our dear readers. Then there are other times that I wander the Web for sheer amusement—and let’s face it, t... |
| 01.04.2009 | April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. | Wow. April Fools Is In full swing.
The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo... |
| 18.02.2009 | OVGuide beefs up video search and discovery portal with $5M | OVGuide, a comprehensive video search portal that draws results from sites including Fancast, Hulu, ESPN and Funny or Die, announced today that it raised $5 million in capital all from Baroda Ventures. Based in Beverly Hills, Calif., the co... |
| 06.10.2008 | The YouTube Election | This is one of the weirdest elections I can ever remember.
It’s not the candidates, though that’s certainly unusual: the first black nominee, Barack Obama, of a major party and only the second woman, Sarah Palin, nominated for vice presiden... |
| 30.06.2008 | Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web | Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few edi... |
| 10.06.2008 | IP3G to stop us unlocking firmware like it's our job – or perhaps that was the point? | http://www1.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf?36e2ccefHuman Giant – Corn Chowder w/ Rob Riggle on FunnyOrDie.com
With O2 and AT&T reporting contract signings at their respective sales points, I think the idea of an unlocked iPho... |
| 29.05.2008 | Video: Mastering the Internet | http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf
You know what, I get the feeling that this Internet thing is going to be huge. I hear you can trade pictures with friends in far away lands. And the idea of real time stocks without havi... |
| 27.05.2008 | Company review: Funny or not, it may be worth a shot | It feels like yesterday we were reading about Google's $1.6 billion buyout of YouTube, and scoffing at the idea that a nascent online media property filled with America's funniest home videos gone haywire could fetch sucn a hefty sum. Yet s... |
| 22.02.2008 | Comedy.com launches with first funding round | No odd spellings or lengthy domain names for this one: Comedy.com is yet another new portal for amusing content, launched yesterday by the former chief executive of the defunct UPN television network.
The competition in this space is becomi... |
| 08.02.2008 | Hollywood meets VC money, both online and offline | We’ve been covering how online video sites — especially YouTube — are seeing an uptick in traffic that may be due to the ongoing movie and television writers’ strike. Many video sites promise new ways for creative types like writers, actors... |
| 05.02.2008 | The Independent Comedy Network, a new video content portal, launching tomorrow | Independent Comedy Network is joining the growing ranks of startups intending to create video, rather than just aggregate it. But it hopes to avoid some of the pitfalls of early efforts like FunnyorDie.
Built around talent from the stand-up... |
| 31.01.2008 | Strike this: Video sites you can make money from (or not) | While the strike by Hollywood writers is dragging on long enough to threaten the hallowed Oscars, video-viewing on the web is expanding as fast as ever. As a result, writers, directors and actors are considering splitting from the studios f... |
| 22.01.2008 | FunnyorDie Hangs In There: Good Content Still The Key | http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swfthe parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see! on FunnyOrDie.com
When the Will Farrell/ Sequioa backed ($15m+) FunnyorDie launched in March 2007 it made a huge splash with Farrell providin... |
| 24.12.2007 | Funny Or Die Raises $15 Million | Funny Or Die, the slapstick video hub cofounded by former Saturday Night Live cast member, Will Ferrell, announced that it raised $15 million from Sequoia and several other unnamed investors. Funny or Die is especially known for its viral v... |
| 23.12.2007 | Tired of viral marketing? Want to punch Judd Apatow? | http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swfBacklash on FunnyOrDie.com
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. I’m a little disappointed that there’s no slam dunk line like “I’ve got a murder boner!” but viral marketing needs all the beatin... |
| 21.12.2007 | Roundup: Funny or Die raises cash, Netsuite soars & much more | 1. Funny or Die raises $15M, despite chance of latter
2. Did White House lead rejection of California’s emissions claims?
3. Redhat CEO Matthew Szulik resigns
4. Startup.com’s Tuzman to save Roo.com
5. Netsuite’s stock soars past $35
6. Cis... |
| 19.11.2007 | Hollywood Faces A Swarm Of New Competitors | A lot of people seemed to be interpreting my post about the writer's strike a couple of weeks ago as taking the studios' side. That wasn't really my point. I don't know enough about the details of writers' compensations structures to have a... |
