Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

[LuciferXuk]

Splashy pants? never heard of it ... o well ..

[kutkinderen]

Alexis Ohanian great personality !

[KillstealingPrick]

"YAY!"

[theshawe]

wtf happens at 4:31

[SpaceHeaterStudios]

This video is great! Not only is it funny, it shows the viral power of social media. Effective networking CAN produce tangible results, as seen in this video!

[walrusspa]

Thank you for this talk. I'm sharing this as the 'essence of Social media'

[geinikan1kan]

Great presentation. But in the back of my head I hear an echo from the 20th century about "the medium is the message." Losing control sounds alright for an organization, or for a government (everyone likes the everyman (I mean person of course). But the internet can't then be limited to harmless (but constructive)choices of names like Mr. Splashy Plants. Who knows what the future holds? Who knows, a little control might be a good thing?

[madjunir]

great presentation and great cause. Go mr splashy!

[JPO1618]

oh, Mr. Splashy Pants...

[Casmige]

=OoO=

"Anyone know the song or where to get it? "

Sounds like Lisa Gerarrd Compilation....

She's incredible!

=OoO=

[cerebral200]

Did Japan really drop their whale killing?

[ratholin]

not that I've heard of but every year they apply to the whaling coalition to kill more whales every year the whaling coalition says no and then japan only kills a few whales supposedly for science but since they're already dead they might as well eat them...

[c9rm3n]

Is this guy pro anarchy?

[roidroid]

no, democracy

[c9rm3n]

@roidroid

"but if you want to succeed you got to be OK with just loosing control"

[roidroid]

He refers to the loss of dictatorial control, it doesn't necessarily mean anarchy.

He seems to be talking mostly about "crowd sourcing", a kindof natural democracy. Perhaps you could call it anarchy, i'm not entirely sure.

[SophosVII]

I wonder if this guy could speak even faster...

[lexleon]

Bravo!

[ilovelux]

Whats the last minute of this clip about... the colour changing spheres??

[ratholin]

It's a commercial. A really crap comercial that most people just skip. Funny that it's at the end of a lecture on a supposedly really good ad campaign.

[1schwererziehbar1]

"all kinds of memes get born on the reddit frontpage". yeah, sure. that's where they all come from.

[roidroid]

shut up

[shawnabgoode]

just loose it aaaaa aaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa! Like eminem right? he didn't do too bad..........

[forcefeedswede]

I thought I spoke fast . .he is lightning speed babbling

[tarcal87]

OK all the people sat in there for a 4 min talk like that :D I'd be disappointed.

[liquidminds]

as i get it, there is a series of talks on one day. Some last a couple minutes, some longer.

They just upload them one at a time.

Guess that's how they fill the gaps between talks ;-D

So it's kind of interesting to have a day where you can listen to a lot of totally different talks and get totally different impressions. I imagine it to be very interesting.

[tarcal87]

I thought so yes, a whole day of different talks.

And yes, I think it would be interesting to see all the different topics and people and their experiences.

It's just that there is quite a few less interestnig Ted talks, sometimes they are just shows, performances..

[liquidminds]

i guess they publish the most interesting ones first, so when there is a long time without a ted-talk, the amount of less-interesting talks and shows increases.

I wouldn't mawn about be lesser shows beeing just good or OK. I would be happy, that the worst TED publishes, is still something worth watching and that the best will blow your mind.

[Shaunt1]

Excellent! He gave a good example of how the internet can do amazing things!

[ebird97]

finally a speech that short and doesnt take FOREVER to make a point or a few

[y0nd3r]

He started out okay, but by the end he was talking so fast and in cool little whispers that I couldn't understand him.

[MagicianOnAMission]

That guy's awesome. Really entertaining talk =]

[ccssdxdx]

yay!

[theseanze]

Why does everybody hate Greenpeace? Here they are saving the whales and people still have this patronizing '50s attitude of anyone who is for peace and the environment is a crazy hippy.

[86kinky86]

because they are economical terrorist, that's why

[michalchik]

Do you perhaps mean ecological terrorists? If so who lives in terror of their next attack?

[theseanze]

They've done some crazy things, but I guess the clearer point I was trying to make is its more productive to support the root causes they're getting at. In the past they have stood alone on some issues that nobody else brought into light, and if people listened to whats going on, maybe they wouldn't feel and behave like cornered rats, desperate for change... You can argue that getting in the way of poachers is fiscal terrorism, but what right do we have to be whaling these days?

[ForYeensSake]

@theseanze The reason I oppose greenpeace is because they sometimes misrepresent facts. One example is nuclear energy.

[lajakl]

@theseanze I'm all for environmentalism but Greenpeace has evolved to a more anti-corporatism movement. Greenpeace is just a bunch of crazy hippies.

[coz752]

@lajakl .... so , corporatism is the holy grail that we should follow and let us get dictated by ?

[lajakl]

@coz752 Not once did I say that... But blindly fighting it because they think it's the same thing as environmentalism is just ridiculous and stupid.

[Arwiiss]

@theseanze It's not that people hate greenpeace it's that they get annoyed by it. GreanPeace are like Jews and bitch loudly on every occasion they have about everything. Generally I support their cause but their approach is terrible to people. We live in a world where it's not possible not to sacrifice smth for greater good of society, however it seems greenpeace are too narrow minded on some things.

[danno1111]

It never would have occured to me that Greenpeace takes itself seriously; they seem to have become a farcical charicature of themselves.

[Hornbog]

yay for the internet.

[DrQuijano]

Short and to the point. Not bad.

[bluevspink]

Its good.

[MadJewelz]

This told me nothing useful

What a wanker

[Monchanger]

@MadJewelz: I felt that way reading your comment.  Cheers!

[PapaDeltaRomeo]

Short and sweet

[sisforshayla]

that was a great one!

[JohnColt]

The best meme: "meme".

[Yamakashi1]

hahaha

[princeofexcess]

memetics for the win.

[adj789]

shortest TED ever?

[iSOBigD]

It's like Digg.

[adamredwine]

I think this is a great description of how its not just the way media is presented that's changing, but the very way media gets produced in the first place that's changing.

Hooray for Mr. Splashy Pants!

[cosy18]

awesome

[belliebum12]

Today was the first time I even learned about reddit. And Mr. splashy pants.

[kn0thing]

@belliebum12 And I'm happy you did :) thanks for the kind words!

[Aboxatax]

Reddit . com promotes child porn/jailbait shit. There is a whole area on Reddit featuring thai stuff. The guy in this video knows about it and does nothing. Alexis Ohanian is a criminal.

[pboisei]

WTH?

[Aboxatax]

WTH? is right.

[Nigrescence]

That's a great advertisement for them, Aboxatax. I didn't really care too much about Reddit before, but now I'm definitely going to visit them.

Reddit should be paying you!

[Aboxatax]

Fuck that, whatever dude.

[audiowiz]

what's the a capella piece on the end of the video from?

[TshaFromTWest]

I was wondering the same thing. What's it about?

[audiowiz]

I thought it was going to be an ad, but then there was no logo or anything. I would like to listen to the entire thing if it's not an advertisement, it was different but cool

[roidroid]

it's a "brand growing" advertisement. The purpose is to get you used to seeing their "balls" logo first. Without the negative feeling of forcing any product on you.

YET...

Only once they have sufficiently built up the "balls" brand in your head will they introduce you to the product/company. By this time you will be so used to the balls, it will be like a fast-track highway into your mind that the company/product itself will travel on.

You WILL remember.

Like a trojan horse.

[duggan23]

Yeah i want to know too. It's obviously a teaser campaign, but i actually really liked it. Anyone know the song or where to get it?

[tedoymisojos]

I love the ball animation at the end. Its so beautiful. Bravo.

[sparrow111260]

cool

[Moryton]

The divide is getting bigger between social media land A, B, C, D, ..., etc. Some people who are in land A have their local things going on, like the RATM X-Factor chart vote campaign, until the massmedia picks up on it. For instance, I vaguely remember Greenpeace and "going back on their whatever vote," but not reddit.

[borimirtheboring]

Gotta love Mr Splashy Pants!

[kutaro13]

This cool idea .. it is like people media .. create good story you want to get attention like some children or women are getting abuse or even someone is cutting down trees for no reason .. people are doing some dirty stuff right across your neighborhood or something .. i mean you can get your story out and some authorities can get attention .. like Mr. Splashy Pants is happy now. I really hope ppl use it to share something helpful, don't put politics up guys, i don't want lechers to be at top

[melonbarmonster]

If japanese people want to eat contaminated whale meat what's the big deal. They're not hunting endangered whales or anything. They should just stop the ruse and be honest instead of giving the research excuse.

[vanidar21]

All whale species are endangered...

[melonbarmonster]

Not according to scientists and animal preservation organizations. That's the exact kind of ignorance that inhibits intellectual honest discussion and contaminates a legitimate issue with racist sentiments.

[00corin00]

Very good.

[spotandedgar]

mmm....whales

[AppA]

Wut, there are people making income just giving their opinions about catchy looking social web applications?

I seriously have to start reconsidering my career path ;)

Also, thing at the end is totally trippy :D

[lennarttrouborst]

favourited!

[tm1729]

splashy pants...

[mrpitchf0rk]

:D

Mr Splashy Pants!

[GRNoam]

fred durst?