2011 has turned out to be one hell of a year, and it’s only March. Governments in the Middle East have been overthrown, The labor protests in Madison continue, and now the Japan Tsunami/impending nuclear winter crisis is upon us. For anyone more than a bit superstitious, it might seem like the Mayan 2012 ‘end of days’ prophecy is getting kicked off early.
What I find most interesting about last month’s Egypt protests is the fact that social media fueled the whole thing. It’s safe to say that the revolution wouldn’t …

After the “Chatroulette Killer” video made for Cannal Buzz Spain, its time for Lionsgate to use the naked.man.website to scare people and promote their new movie.
“The Last Exorcism” comes out only on August 27th but it’s already taking some good reactions out of the people around the world.

- Philipe Diao

So continuing my coverage of ChatRoulette, I’ve been hearing about how several brands have been using our favorite random video chat service to do some fun advertising. BK did it. Travelocity did it. And now Dr. Pepper.
BK had The King jump on there and send people links for coupons on food. Travelocity just had a funny message and a link. And most recently, Dr. Pepper pulled an April Fools Day trick on people. They had a Dr. Pepper cheerleader do dance for people and pull a quick switch-a-roo to catch …

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Chat Roulette has been blowing up with all kinds of new content. This new feature uses Google Maps and allows you to pin-point where chatters are and what they are showing. Not so anonymous anymore… Maybe this will cut down on all the manbits you constantly see. I’ve also heard of a Chat Roulette iphone app but it doesn’t seem any different from standard text chat. Info on it here: Link
- Sean Leonard

Chatroulette seems to have exploded this week. In my world at least. Twitter, news articles everything I was reading and seeing was Chatroulette. I changed my ichat status to IMroulette yesterday as a joke and what do you know I had Buddies all a buzz about Chatroulette. The consensus among everyone I talked to was “I don’t want to see some old dude masturbating!”  It even came up in conversation with one of my Creative Director’s. We talked about how in theory the idea is super cool and then he …

I gotta say I got a little weird out to click on the ChatRoulette link when I came across it on a blog, but my curiosity didn’t let me close my computer and move on…I had to see what was it all about.
The site was created by a 17 year old Russian programmer, Andrey Ternovskiy, and it might be the new phenomenon…It’s pretty easy to work it, you just have to click Play and the website will ask you to turn your webcam on. After that somebody will be randomly chosen …