Cool mix of numa numa songs for numanuma fans

Here’s a cool video with a few different Numa Numa songs including Rihanna, TI, Gary and some other cool stuff. It’s nice to get a quick recap of the great Numa Numa inspired songs that we’ve come to love over the past few years but of course we owe it all to the original classic.

Let me know what you think of this video and post links to any other classic ones you like.

Your five minutes of fame that stay on youtube forever – amazing baseball catch

Just about everybody wants to be a hero. It’s pretty much a fact a life. Some of us get our chance and sometimes we are fortunate enough to even grab it, but at the end of the day it usually becomes nothing more than a distant memory.

The web has changed this. If you’re really lucky enough to have your moment of glory idolized in the archives of the web then people may remember it for years to come. That’s the concept of the Numa Numa phenomenon. Call it luck or call it skill, it sticks in people’s minds and gets passed around the web for years to come.

I came across an amazing baseball catch today that wasn’t even by one of the players. You have to see it to believe it. This ball girl literally jumps a few feet into the air with the help of the wall and makes an incredible catch. After the catch, she goes back to her seat and the game continues. This is obviously a memory her and the thousands of fans at the game will never forget, but there’s one key point here: this video is available for anyone and everyone to see online. When people like you or me find it, we tend to share it and so the memory lives on. This is an incredible phenomenon. Sadly it can be good and bad (blooper videos are abundant) but it shows the power of online videos.

Enjoy this amazing catch:

Do I need a good domain name

A common question I come across is “how important is a good domain name for my site/blog?”

My first reaction used to be that the domain name had very little significance in the big picture. I visited sites on a daily basis that had domains with dashes and were made up of all sorts of funky word combinations and sub-par extensions. I quickly started believing that the domain had very little to do with the success of the site. Over the years, however, I have started seeing trends in the relevance of domain names and I am going to start running a series of posts detailing the importance of domain names and how one should go about acquiring a good one without breaking the bank.

Let’s start with 2 important aspects that will get you thinking:

1. Brandability
2. Search engine optimization (SEO)

Brandability:
Let’s face it – a name like Weather.com is far more memorable than a name like myscorchmeter.com and will yield a brand that can easily become popular and successful.

SEO:
Search engines such as Google.com love relevance. They will always give an edge to sites that appear more legitimate and credible. Compare the names numanuma.com and mynumasongdance.com and you will definitely agree that numa numa is the exact term and therefore has the greater relevance.

In future posts I will discuss how the search engines factor this in and how to go about grabbing the best name possible. In the meantime keep this important message in mind:

“never underestimate the power of a good domain name”.

Why the iPhone is changing mobile video

I’ve always been a fan of online videos. A healthy diet of fun, informational and business videos is an essential part of the modern web warrior. The only shortcoming of web videos over the past few years is that they didn’t translate well on mobile devices. Watching a video on a blackberry or other device with an Internet connection and a decent size display was usually nowhere near as effective as watching one online. Video load times were slow, buffering was choppy and the devices either required plugins or just wouldn’t display the videos correctly in the first place. And then came the iPhone…

Now I have to admit that I’m working off an iPhone 3GS these days which is faster and better than ever so I can’t speak for the older generations of iPhones. The 3GS displays videos so seamlessly and effectively that it’s just as much fun if not more so than watching it on a computer. YouTube is integrated perfectly into the device and a search renders results in no time that can be clicked on and played beautifully in landscape mode with no buffering issues at all. It’s an unbelievable experience.

To top it off, many of the great apps on the iPhone (my favorite being Shazam link to YouTube and let you view contextually relevant videos in a matter of seconds.

What used to be a painful chore is now a thing of beauty thanks to the iPhone. Congrats to Apple on producing the most impressive tool/gadget I’ve encountered in a long time.

Do you like literal videos?

There’s a fairly new craze on the web referred to as “Literal Videos”. Lets start with an example:

At first I thought this was pretty cool and laughed at it, but then it started to feel like cheap wine in some old dingy motel. I wanted to shut down my browser and walk away slowly from my computer doing my best to put this out of my mind.

What’s your take on literal videos? Do you love them or hate them?

At the time of writing, this video has been watched over 2.5 million times on YouTube.com and I’m sure that number will keep rising. The rating is also excellent, but I have to wonder…

why?