Saw this post Musings: How to determine your “Star Wars” name

For your new first name:

1. Take the first 3 letters of your 1st name and add
2. the first 2 letters of your last name

For your new last name:

3. Then take the first 2 letters of your Mom’s maiden name and add
4. the first 3 letters of the city you were born

How to determine your Star Wars honorific name and title:

1. take the last three letters of your last name and reverse them.
2. add the name of the first car you drove/owned
3. insert the word “of”
4. tack on the name of the last medication you took.

What’s your Star Wars name? Leave a comment.

May the force be with you,

Alene Cloxn
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This is kind of funny if you’re into the web 2.0 stuff. BTW this Vimeo player is really pretty.

Makin’ Moves (HD) from David Marcus on Vimeo.

I just posted about Dan Ackerman Greenberg from Stanford who posted at TechCrunch, about how he manipulates the system to help make videos viral. Greenberg is also head TA at Stanford’s class on Facebook Applications.

I also noticed that two of the apps from this class have gone viral according to TechCrunch

Today we received word that one of them, KissMe, has crossed 1 million installs as of 6:30pm this evening. Another app, Send Hotness is likely to break 1 million in the next few days. It’s pretty amazing considering a lot of professional apps barely register.

It is pretty amazing. Did Greenberg help them out?

What are they teaching at Stanford and why is a guy like Greenberg allowed to TA a class?

Technorati Tags: facebook, viral marketing, Greenberg, Stanford Facebook Class

In a guest post over at TechCrunch, Dan Ackerman Greenberg outlines his approach to taking just about any video viral. The approach manipulates the system to drive the results people want and there is some complaining that this kind of thing would be tolerated. While it may work, it certainly demonstrates questionable ethics and violations of terms of service.

However, for good or bad, these types of manipulations have been going on for years in all kinds of online and off line venues.

The biggest issue I see is that while Dan has gained a lot of attention with this post, he has also just raised the risk of using his service. I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone try to figure out Dan’s clients for the single purpose of outing his clients as subscribers of this kind of approach.

Will being successful with some viral video campaign outweigh the damage done if people find out you manipulated the system?

Via Techmeme

Technorati Tags: viral video, viral video marketing, Dan Ackerman Greenberg, blackhat