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I believe in love at first sight site. That is, if it’s possible to fall in love with a website. The first time I visited the TED website, I was in love with the concept: high-quality infotainment featuring world-class speakers—what more could I ask for from media?

I believe in love at first sight site. That is, if it’s possible to fall in love with a website. The first time I visited the TED website, I was in love with the concept: high-quality infotainment featuring world-class speakers—what more could I ask for from media?

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Happy Friday, folks! It’s the end of the week and the beginning of a new month and we’ve got a great selection of funny videos to put a smile on your face as you head into the weekend, and to the month of July.

This month, Erik Qualman of Socialnomics released the second update of his now infamous video—Social Media Revolution 3. This time, the evolution of social media exposed—social media is no longer about technology. It’s about people.

Available in the cloud at no cost, GoLiveCampus.com allows parents, students and teachers to safely search for relevant videos. The site dynamically pulls content from YouTube and social networking sites through a robust safe search. The search removes comments and ads and gives students access only to clean, appropriate videos.

To rent a film, consumers simply click on the “watch now” icon to apply their Facebook Credits, and within seconds they will begin enjoying the film. This offering is presently available only to consumers in the United States.

Yes, each free is film, which includes a preroll, spot ads and banner ads. The service is extremely user-friendly. Popcornflix allows users to share the film by posting a link to Facebook or Twitter.

The practical uses of SynchTube are watching a home movie with the whole family, making sure everyone is watching an informational video at the same time, making sure clients see the same clip as you and using the chat room for tighter clarification of what is being viewed by the client.

The video was uploaded on YouTube a week ago as the user name BITcrash44. As the week progressed, the video soon generated well over 800,000 views in just four days and had been mentioned on Web sites like Gizmodo, Gothamist, Salon and NBC New York. New York Times reported that one Web site even listed it as the most popular viral video on Twitter

In the THR article, Fithian went further to say that studio “shot themselves in the foot” by allowing Netflix and Redbox to teach consumers they can get movies in their homes cheaply.

Mui points out that Hastings built the DVD business that toppled Blockbuster. He was motivated by a big idea “that mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video.”