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Creative uses, Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II - The Domino Effect

This Google Video is similar to the Revver Video from EepyBird.  It showcases some creative uses for Diet Coke and Mentos.  The guys from EepyBird are back, with 251 bottles of Diet Coke and over 1,500 Mentos mints.  In Experiment #137, they did a mint-powered version of the Bellagio fountains.  This time, it's one giant Coke & Mentos chain reaction that has to be seen to be believed. Keywords:  eepybird eepy bird mentos coke diet coke mentos experiment fountain soda science geyser experiments fountains geysers  Enter to win a contest to make your own orginal commercial at www.coca-cola.com by thinking of creative ways to use Diet Coke and Mentos.

      

     

Revver uses?

Revver is a video sharing website along the lines of YouTube, but shares all ad revenue with the creators and distributors 50/50.  Videos can be displayed, downloaded, and shared across the web in Flash and Quick time formats. It was founded in 2004 in Southern California.  Some YouTube users have migrated over to Revver because the opportunity to make revenue on content. The site has over 100,000 videos with the most popular being a creator of videos mixing Mentos into Coke. 

Users can share videos through RSS, podcasting, and embeddable players within blogs and other websites.  Check it out, it is a interesting play on the video sharing web concept.  Below is the popular Mentos and Coke Video, which is very funny to watch.  How do you use Revver?

YouTube uses?

YouTube is a free video sharing website where users upload, view, and share video clips.  It has show exceptional growth since establishing in February 2005 by three employees of PayPal.  Recently Google announced the purchase of YouTube for approximately 1.6 Billion in Google stock.  I have embedded a video of a baby Panda sneezing, very funny to watch to show how easy it is to use YouTube.  It is very simple and easy to do so check out YouTube.

Currently over 50,000 videos are uploaded everyday to YouTube making it one of the fastest growing websites around.  Over 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube and the site has over 20 Million visitors every month.  It is extermely popular among the younger generation.  Traditional media has taken notice and YouTube has struck deals with NBC and CBS as of late.

Future goals for YouTube include to offer every music video every made on demand and to showcase upcoming film directors.  Videos can be searched by tags, grouped into categories, show the number of downloads, and are ranked by stars.  YouTube users have gained iconic status on a variety of topics.  Videos range from the outrageous, to clips of TV Shows, to the daily lives of many users.  How do you use YouTube?

MySpace uses?

MySpace is a social networking website that offers an interactive network of users.  Individuals can submit profiles, photos, music, blogs, and videos.  It can be highly customized by users and individuals can communicate through leaving messages on friend's MySpace pages.  It has an internal search engine as well as internal e-mail system.  It has over 100 million accounts created and is currently the fourth most popular destination on the web.

MySpace was created in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe in Southern California and has grown into an icon of the current generation.  It was sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in July of 2005 for $580 Million Dollars.  Contents of a typical MySpace page include profiles, comments, communication, music, video, pictures, and high levels of customization by users.  MySpace is a often in the news with stories profiling the possible dangers of the online community, but it also has many benefits in providing a free and open voice for all users to share and create communities with others.  It can not be argued that it has grown into one of the most popular destinations of the current Internet community.  How do you use MySpace? 

iPod uses?

The iPod recently turned five years old and is used by millions
of people worldwide.  Apple changed how music and data was used by creating a music player that was durable, fashionable, and unique.  It can be customized and changed to a fit a user's individual preferences and can be used by individuals of all ages. 

We use it to listen to music, share pictures, watch videos, store files, and organize our lives.  It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes and has been a worldwide icon for being hip.  So be creative and share with us. Send us your pictures of how you use your iPod everyday to 100uses@gmail.com.  How do you use your iPod?

Google uses?

Google receives close to a billion search requests a day from all over the world.  It controls close to 80% of the search market on the Internet today.  Google started as a research project in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergy Brin at Stanford University.  They were hoping to create a better search engine and simplify how information was accessed.   People have flocked to the site because of its simplicity as well as its power to find relevant information quickly. 

The Google stock went public and quickly shot up to its current level of over $400 a share.  2005 revenues were over 6 billion dollars with its core focus on Internet advertising.  In recent years it has been busy releasing new products and buying up a variety of Internet companies to offer their legion of users all sorts of tools.  In a little over ten years it is amazing how Google has changed our lives from Google Search to Google Earth, it is difficult to find a way Google is not changing how we locate and use information.  How do you use Google?