MoSo stands for movie for social communication. The service is an easy-to-use movie creator/editor for Mac, developed by Shinji Murakoshi from Japan. So far, the app has attracted over 100,000 downloads on the Mac App store. A pretty cool achievement for an app that is just a couple months old. Murakoshi recently visited Singapore and demonstrated his app live at PennUp and at Hackerspace.sg. MoSo essentially helps users to create fun looking videos within a few clicks. Unlike other video creator software, the Japanese video editing Mac app isn’t restricted by a time ...
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Sung-Bong Choi’s Video Went Viral: Thanks to Facebook, Reddit
Sung-Bong Choi is the latest Asian to become a sensation on the web. His performance on Korea’s Got Talent was uploaded to YouTube on June 4 2011 and within 7 days, the video has gotten about 5 million views. According to YouTube’s analytics, Sung-Bong Choi’s YouTube video first went viral on Facebook before the Reddit folks made it viral on the social bookmarking site. Interestingly, Vietnamese news and social network, Zing.vn also played a part to help make the video viral, racking up 85,000 views so far. Sung-Bong Choi’s viral video is ...
Jun 7 2011
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Microsoft Employs Online Videos To Promote Windows 7 in Southeast Asia
Update on June 7: The Upper Story (TUS) contacted us and explained that the activation campaign for Microsoft Windows 7 hasn't been launched. The videos are simply uploaded on YouTube and all views are generated organically. TUS will keep us updated in three to six months time after the activation has started. This is interesting. Looks like Microsoft got a little creative when promoting Windows 7 in Southeast Asia, releasing a series of online video ads across a number of social platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Blogger, and Twitter). The Upper Storey (TUS), the ...
May 31 2011
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LiveShare’s Real-Time Photo Sharing Looks Awesome
With real-time photos, LiveShare makes real-time tweets look like child’s play. I love Twitter, but the option to share photos and videos displayed gorgeously in real-time is extremely exciting, especially from a blogger’s point of view. LiveShare is founded by Cooliris, a Silicon Valley based start-up which just ended its Series C round of funding. It has raised $30 million so far, according to Derek Tan, APAC Director at Cooliris. The folks at Cooliris is also the brain behind the brilliant Cooliris 3D Wall (chrome web store link), a gorgeous way ...
May 30 2011
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Japan’s TEPCO Tries To Improve Transparency With Nuclear Plant Webcast
Tomorrow morning TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, will begin a live video stream of the facility. According to The Wall Street Journal, video will be from “250 meters northwest of Unit No. 1 and will show images of Units Nos. 1-3 in real time, the most heavily damaged of the plant’s six reactors.” It’s pretty clear that this is a PR move by TEPCO to show that its making an effort towards transparency, while at the same time coming under fire ...
May 30 2011
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4 Foreign Online Video Acts Who Found Online Fame in China
Foreigners speaking Chinese in China have always been a bit of a rarity, although recently more and more are mastering the language. The few brave foreigners who dare to sing in Chinese typically attract even more attention. Here are just a few: 1. Feichang Fresh Here's a group of Beijing expats who uploaded their music video ‘Beijing Love Song’ onto Youku.com. Subsequently it has accumulated over 900,000 visitors. Arseny Kaifel, a 23 year-old German student, tells The Global Times: “I never felt like this song would reach this level… We were practically ...
May 17 2011
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Indonesia’s Twitter Ghost
If you think of ghosts as objects of fear, you may have to think a little differently about Pocong, a local Indonesian ghost. Originally a frightening urban legend about a dead man, Pocong has become very popular on social media sites amongst Indonesians, especially on Twitter and Facebook. This ‘ghost’ has more than 350,000 followers in his Twitter account, Poconggg, and he boasts over 26,000 fans on his Facebook page. That number will probably grow with news on his blog that Poconggg will publish a book, and that he will mention ...
May 13 2011
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500 Million Facebook Friends to Sina Weibo [VIDEO]
The movie, The Social Network, a.k.a Facebook movie has a lot of spoofs. If you thought you have seen it all, wait till you see this video which is spreading virally on Sina Weibo. The video, however, is mostly in Chinese. Below is a short description in English, though. The video starts by showing a conversation where Mark Zuckerberg complains that his 500 million friends have gone. The answer, according to the video is Sina Weibo, a popular microblog in China with 140 million users. In a hilarious fashion, the video features ...
May 2 2011
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BMW Brings Another Aspiring Viral Ad Campaign to China
I’ve really enjoyed some of BMW’s marketing work over the years, particularly its short film series, The Hire which featured star-studded crew of actors and directors, not to mention James Brown. Today ChinaSmack points us towards the company’s latest effort in China, a project called ‘M Gladiators.’ This new promotional teaser appears to be the first of a month-long campaign, as a countdown clock over on beastinside.cc, the dedicated page for the campaign, is ostensibly counting down to a model M launch. The ‘M-Gladiators’ video below is a little weak by ...
Apr 23 2011
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Youku’s Original Short Movie Rockets to 3.5 Million Views
An original short film entitled The Ultimate Winner (赢家) is racking up a pretty impressive number of views over on Chinese video site Youku, even though it has been online for just a few days. (Note: I'm going by the stats here at the time of writing) The movie is a ‘Youku Original,’ continuing the company’s content push in an effort to stand out even more in the Chinese online video space. Chairman and CEO Victor Koo explains: Content is strategically important for us, and we will continue to invest in content ...
Apr 21 2011
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China’s Tudou Says IPO Plan is Still a Go
Yesterday we wrote that there was speculation in the Chinese media about video giant Tudou giving up on its IPO plans, in the hopes of being acquired, possibly by Youku. However, Tudou is saying today that it still intends to go public and that everything is on schedule, this according to a report from Reuters today. A Tudou representative declined to comment when we made contact yesterday evening. Elsewhere in the Chinese video space, Ku6 just announced its acquisition of Pipi.cn, a P2P-based video platform. It looks like we're finally beginning to see ...
Apr 21 2011
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19 Million Users Strong, Nico Nico Douga Launches English Beta Site
Popular Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga has announced an English beta version. The new site can be accessed at Niconico.com. The service is more interactive than other video sites, with the ability to overlay streaming comments on the video display (see example). As of October 2010, Nico Nico Douga had over 18,900,000 registered users. It’ll be interesting to see if the English site can take off, either with users overseas or with English-speaking Japanese. The new site will allow current Nico Nico users to login with their regular credentials. Anime News Network ...
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Japan’s Social Giants: Trends in User Numbers [CHART]
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