This week’s roundup of funny videos features Oprah and YouTube’s famous yelling goat, the world’s shortest train, a funny Twitter commercial, chatbots and more. So grab a coffee, take a seat and get ready to laugh!
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‘Tis the season for year-end lists, so Experian Hitwise chimed in with some of its own, revealing its 10 most searched terms for 2010, as well as most visited Web sites, and top searches from various categories.
The top 10 most searched terms of 2010:
facebook login
youtube
craigslist
myspace
facebook.com
ebay
yahoo
www.facebook.com
mapquest
The same list for 2009:
myspace
craigslist
youtube
yahoo mail
yahoo
ebay
facebook login
myspace.com
Bing and DonorsChoose.org are two of Oprah Winfrey‘s Favorite Things, so fresh off their appearance on the last-ever Favorite Things episode on Oprah, Microsoft’s search engine teamed up with the online charity site and the talk show to create the Visual Search Gallery of Oprah’s Favorite Things.
Items can be sorted by price range, and procrastinators can take advantage of Last Minute Items that ship on the day they are ordered.
Oprah Winfrey is making major moves in the TV world, but her magazine is still going strong. Now, Oprah.com is looking for a new Web editor to manage the day-to-day programming of O‘s presence on the site an in the social media sphere.
If hired, you’ll be responsible for managing the online production of each issue, including creating assignments for the web team, writing SEO-friendly copy and editing promotional text for pages and newsletters. You’ll be working with print editors on creating compelling Web content, and leading the charge on the magazine’s social media strategies.
You only need a minimum of two to three years of online editorial and/or marketing experience, but if you want to work for Oprah, you should be a never-ending source of ideas and have the skills to back it up. Those with promotional copywriting skills, CMS experience and SEO know-how will be good to go. Interested? Apply here.
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has opened up online auditions for its awkwardly named series “Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star.”
Anyone interested with getting their own talk show on OWN (and I think there may be a lot of you) can prepare a three minute audition tape and upload it to Oprah.com through June 26.
The site is including a browser based video editing kit as well as tips om making a compelling video from Oprah’s celeb friends, including Will.i.am, Lisa Ling and Peter Walsh.
Visitors to Oprah.com will be voting on the online submissions, with the top five getting flown out to Los Angeles for an in-person audition with Mark Burnett Productions, which will be producing the series for OWN.
There are five categories wannabe TV stars can make audition tapes for: traditional talk show, cooking show, interior design or fashion, health and well being and “wildcard,” which sounds like it will be the most interesting to watch.
So what are you waiting for? Get filming and submit those auditions. Do it for Oprah.
