Christopher Lao ‘Ang Bobong Sinugod ang Kotse sa Baha’ Video Goes Viral

Christopher Lao is trending on Twitter because of his “floating car” video.

Christopher Lao became famous after GMA-7 reported about his “floating” car.

The video uploaded on YouTube was first aired on 24 Oras last Tuesday night. It’s a news report about Lao, a UP College of Law student, who braced his car to the deep flood waters in Quezon City. The incident was caught on camera by GMA-7 reporter Jun Veneracion.

In the 24 Oras interview, Lao blamed the MMDA and bystanders for not blocking the road and for not informing him that the flood was deep.

The YouTube video of the said news report is now going viral as Christopher Lao is now trending on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The newly created “Christopher Lao (ang bobong sinugod ang kotse sa baha)” Facebook fan page already got 35,174 likes as of this posting.

Watch the sensational video here:

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Viral Star iamamiwhoami Releases New Video Before Her First Live Performance

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

One week before her first live performance at Sweden’s Way Out West, Jonna Lee (a.k.a. iamamiwhoami) is out with a new video — a continuation of the vid for “;john,” which accompanied an announcement that she would emerge from the shadows to play the summer music fest.

iamamiwhoami started as an anonymous YouTube entity in December 2009, sending music bloggers links to artful, epic videos with meandering mysterious storylines.

Now, however, more than a year later, we know that iamamiwhoami is a project headed by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. The project even garnered Lee and Co. an MTV OMA nomination for Most Innovative Artist. However, it lost to Lady Gaga.

The above video — for the song “Clump” — picks up right where “;john” left off, with Lee lying on a bed of what appears to be toilet paper rolls, intercut with scenes featuring a mysterious, hairy creature romping in the tall grass. It’s a highly sensual video — without showing any skin — so be forewarned if you have an over-the-shoulder kind of boss.

[h/t Kevin Anderson]

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How To Make Your Site Go Viral with Social Media

The two best social media sites you can use to drive targeted traffic to your website are Digg and Facebook. Despite both being quite radically different together, they get huge traffic and work in a way that your material can go viral fast. ??Digg lets users follow each other (much like twitter) and post links which are put forward and dugged by registered users and followers of your profile. Generally the more diggs a site gets the more visits your site will get (although you’re likely to get many more visits than diggs).

Step 1.
Sign up to Digg.com

Step 2.
Start commenting on diggs – I’ve found this to be the easiest and quickest way to gather followers.

Step 3.
Follow others – by following other people (particularly popular diggers) you’ll not only gain more followers but also have improved chances of getting other people to digg your content. By following other people your news feed will change to show their new content (and vice-versa).

Step 4.
Once you’ve gathered a solid group of followers you should submit your link (Shown top left right of the Digg logo) you should try and post with an intriguing headline.

You really need to contribute to the digg community if you are to get repeat traffic from the website as this way more people will see your link and promote it.

Once you’ve submitted your link its simply a waiting game to see how much traffic you get! Try experimenting with different types of content to see what works best. I’ve also found Digg an excellent way to get pages indexed into Google (usually within 12 hours).

Now we more onto Facebook there are numerous ways to get traffic to your site via Facebook however if you’re not careful most will be limited untargeted traffic.

The best methods are creating a fan page of your website/blog (only worth doing if your website/blog is already getting at least 200 visits a day with a good portion being returning visitors) or by creating a fan page/group at your websites theme i.e. if your site is about cat food you could make a fan page on a certain breed of cats.

Step 1.
Visit Facebook.com (no need to sign in or register yet) and click “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business.” (Shown highlighted below)

Step 2.
Select “Cause or community” – name your community and click “Get started”

Step 4.
Log into your Facebook account (or create one at this point).

Step 5.
Now you’ll need to add an image (try to make it very relevant) write some content on the wall, invite your friends (only select those who are interested in your fan clubs theme) and finally “Like” the group yourself) this will show the group on your news feed which will encourage your friends to like the page too which in turn will then show up their friends newsfeeds and so on (as you can see this is really is viral friendly!)

Now when you combine the above together along with other social media sites you really are boosting the chances of your site to go viral, just remember you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink i.e. if you post boring content don’t expect the world to fall in love with it!

Share This

You should also consider adding a “share this button” to your website. You can grab the code from: sharethis.com. This gives you a small widget to add anywhere you like on your page which enables people to quickly post your link to Facebook, Twitter, Digg (and many more social media sites) potentially increasing your traffic.

Share this offers multiple looks. The most popular is:?

Simply visit sharethis.com and click “Get the code” (shown in yellow below) add the html code (I find this better since it’s more customisable than downloading the WordPress plug-in) either to the bottom of your posts/pages or in your sidebar.

Sam White has just released a free report teaching you how to drive quality targeted traffic to your website download it at: Drive Huge Traffic To Your Website – Free Traffic Blueprint

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Why cute videos go viral -- the aww-nest truth

The rise of kitty videos, baby pictures and other cuteness on the Internet is now explained by our hardwired instinct to share when we care.

Jonah Lehrer writes at the Wall Street Journal about a study by a Wharton prof, Jonah Berger, which showed that when people are emotionally tickled or rattled, they're much more likely to share news. 

It all comes down to a primal instinct. Psychologists will tell us that when we're scared, amazed, or angry, our first response is to reach out to other human beings. "If I'm angry, and then you get angry, we can bond over what we're feeling," Berger told Lehrer. 

On the Internet, this is harder to do, so people scratch that same impulse by popping the link in an email and sharing it around.  

The "Charlie Bit My Finger — Again!" video, above, with 350 million views now is a prime example, Lehrer explains. The teething toddler and his cheeky older brother are adorable, and go through a rainbow spectrum of emotions through the 56-second vid. 

Our empathetic selves follow along as we watch, experiencing the same hormonal flushes and ebbs that make the kids happy, angry, and gleeful. That's when the ache to share hits, and before we know it, we're sharing links on Google+ and Facebook pages and tweeting madly. 

Finally, evidence that cuteness is contagious. 

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Nidhi Subbaraman writes about tech and science at msnbc.com. Find her on Twitter and Google+ and join our conversation on Facebook.

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