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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s why T-Mobile succeeded with a flash mob. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca It’s why Susan Boyle’s “Britain’s Got Talent&# audition video is now hovering at 86 million views. It’s why she is now famous.

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Occupy Wall Street – The Revolution is Twittervised

Laurel Papworth

And in other news, San Francisco subway shuts down cellphone signals to stop social media organisation of civil protests and Braunschweig, Germany bans flash mobs (using Facebook to organise sudden demonstrations). Digg started censoring discussions on a legal issue and found themselves at war with millions of members.

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