Koo’s Corner

One of our VC contacts at YBN Media popped into the new YBN media office today to see the new digs in San Francisco today. I had to work on a cool research project with him and have become friendly since and enjoy learning more about all the cool things happening in the world of VC’S.

I consider myself a viral youtube conisuer but was impressed when he showed me three great videos I have never seen before. Just goes to show you that VC’s really do have their eyes on everything on the web for some reason or the other….

First up Dirkalicous . I actually like the last 2 songs he does. This guy (Paul Brogan) is awesome. Get him on SNL or something.  Next Jaime Kennedy?

You can see more awesome videos like this here. Love this Iphone one.

Alright next up is more ridiculous Gen Y techie focused hilarity. These guys called Pantless Knights apparently make high quality viral videos and hope to work with companies who are cool enough to realize that viral videos are awesome. My VC bud actually lives with one of them which probably bodes well for hilarious weekend shaningans. Microsoft should give them a call after this god awful disaster. Below are a couple of samples. To be honest, these guys are fantastic. I would hire them to make any video I ever needed for anything.

The Intern Music Video

MAC  Vs PC…

Google vs Yahoo Rap War

These 2 teams of video rap makers should really battle. Seriously has new media ever been this darn awesome?

No doubt this year, social media will have a very relevant effect on the outcome of the election. (Most obvious comment ever made). However its becoming more clear just how large and diverse that impact is.

I am not just talking political blogs, and Obama or Mccain badges here or there. For instance, tailgaters are now even blogging about how to get politically active to fight against lame tailgating policies at games.

However here are two really hot videos in terms of influence and reach floating around.

First, we have a really comical video with pretty much everyone in Hollywood telling you to register to vote. Its kind of long, but its continuously funny enough to make you keep watching and hopefully gets some people to register and or vote. My favorites by far are Jonah Hill (please stop comparing me to him)  and surprisingly Sarah Silverman who I usually find hit or miss.

NOT WORK SAFE……Swearing and just pure hilarity at some points

How effective is this video? We’ll never really know, but the Google Maps link will help and the number of views on Youtube is approaching around 3 million and its only been up less then a week. Solid interest, but a bunch of Hollywood A lister’s playing Scrabble would probably get some traffic too.I liked the ending with Hoffman and the pretty women that I should bet setup with for a date. Hoffman, hook me up.

Next up the real star of the election, Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey’s ridiculously spot on repeat   performance of Sarah Palin is amazingly funny for anyone who enjoys politics. Biden gets a lit grief too, but as you can see its Palin mania that is pumping up SNL’s ratings.

4 years ago, something like this wouldn’t have made it onto blogs and such. It would be buried at NBC.com just like Lazy Sunday painfully was. But thanks to Hulu…you can rock out to it here on benkoo.com.

And while I have you, if you haven’t seen Lazy Sunday then why not cross that off the Bucket list too.