How to make sure your music video gets seen and heard. Another viral sensation. (kinda NSFW)

Written on 12th May 2009                                                                                                              9 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

French music group Make The Girl Dance have released the music video to their song “Baby, Baby, Baby” and whoever thought of this is a complete and utter genius.

Aside from Baby, Baby, Baby I haven’t got the foggiest what the lyrics are saying, does it matter? No. Will I share it? Yes. Will you? You know it.

baby baby baby, cool, lyrics, music video, viral

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Myplaylist.biz: find lyrics without being bombarded by ads

Written on 26th June 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Our English Webtipr from France not just does a good job at writing articles for this blog, he’s also busy with developing Myplaylist.biz – a bootstrapped start-up that combines streaming music with Flickr pics. While listening to your favorite artist, Myplaylist shows photos of the performing artist from Flickr. Of course, the music is hosted somewhere else on the web, so copyright death threats from big companies aren’t applicable. Steven is constantly improving the service, adding lyrics this week.

So the new deal is: type in the artist of song title and enjoy the music while trying to decide whether you’re gonna watch the photos or read the lyrics. No, just kidding here, as Myplaylist has become a really good source for lyrics, as there are hardly any ads on the page. It’s just the old school HTML look – which is the new punk – with a Google Adwords block and ringtone link here and there. No AdultFriendFinder or less subtle sex ads, so searching for lyrics becomes the a-sexual act it should be.

In the end, I think this is the best way to make money. Offer your visitors a clean and easy-to-use page and they’ll become more than just one-time users. They might even register. So instead of scaring them away with adult or ringtone ads, you make them love you by providing them with the content they want without any hassle.

advertising, google adwords, lyrics, music, myplaylist.biz, steven carrol

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The Twitter Ballad: “Twitter come back!”

Written on 19th May 2008                                                                                                              12 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

A lot of people are questioning Twitter and its lack of a businessplan. They complain ‘Yeah, it is kinda cool but how are they ever going to make money?’ Let me tell you this: if you host a service that makes people write desperate songs about you when you go down you’ve got it made. Watch and weep:

Lyrics (So you can sing along!):

Spend all my nights and all my mornings going out of my mind
Doing anything I can to get you working again

When the errors come I get back to starting again
Trying to forget you is just a waste of time

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

All day long I keep hitting the refresh button
Trying to get my followers to see me
As the errors come I get that sick feeling again
How I wish to god that you were working one more time again

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

Now that I’ve put it all together
I sure hope that you will see
That you’ve used up all your free credits
With me, oh yes, with me, yea with me!

CHORUS

Twitter come back
Any kind of fool could see
There was something really wrong with cha

Twitter come back
Ruby or PHP
I was robbed and I just can’t live without ya

fans, insane, loyalty, lyrics, song, twitter

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