Above is a video mash-up put together by YouTube user Baracksdubs of speeches from President Barack Obama being mashed up to match the lyrics of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. The video was uploaded yesterday and has hit over 20,000 views. If you’re a fan of Obama and Lady Gaga, then the odds are that you will end up watching this more than once.
Lady Gaga’s Twitter account was hacked temporarily and she promised her 17 million Twitter followers with an iPad 2. “Monsters, I’m giving away FREE iPad2′s to each one of you in the spirit of the holidays Go to [bitly link] to receive one!” said the person that hacked her Twitter account. The bit.ly link was connected to a referral ID linked to WebGiftRewardsToday.com. Close to about 7,000 people clicked on that link. Twitter deleted the hacked links and Lady Gaga was able to get control of her Twitter account again. [TechCrunch]
Below are some of the biggest viral videos from the past week. They include the Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop Trailer, Obama’s Car Gets Stuck, Puppy To Adult In 40 Seconds, Shark Eats Shark, Lady Gaga Chrome Ad, and a Sonic Flipbook. Check out the videos below (note: refresh the browser if the videos do not load)
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is selling Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” digital album for $0.99. The $0.99 gets you the 14 songs and a digital booklet. The same album is going for $11.99 at Apple iTunes. Amazon.com is subsidizing the cost in order to promote their cloud music locker. The promotional copy of the “Born This Way” album informs people that they can upgrade the 5GB of free storage the cloud locker storage offers to 20GB. [AllThingsD]
Lady Gaga’s newest song “Born This Way” is the fastest selling single on the iTunes Store ever. “Born This Way” hit #1 in 23 countries and sold over 1 million copies in 5 days. Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way (Streamline/Kon Live/Interscope) is expected to be released on May 23rd.
Pop star sensation Lady Gaga unveiled a new line of sunglasses that have the ability to take pictures and video. The GL20 has two screens on them that face outward. These sunglasses are part of Polaroid’s Grey Label line of products. Everything registers into the USB, which is an ear piece. You can send the photos to a wireless printer called the GL10 using Bluetooth. The GL10 will be available in May and will cost $149. The GL30 instant camera is an update to the type of camera that Polaroid is famous for: take a picture and out pops a print-out. You can transfer photos taken from the GL10 back to your computer. Below is a demo of Gaga using the sunglasses and printer (via Mashable)
How did an American soldier walk around with classified documents in his pocket without getting caught? The answer is a Lady Gaga CD. Twenty two year old soldier Bradley Manning copied over 200,000 documents from the defense department on the Siprnet network. Manning was working at an army base near Baghdad when he would come in with a CD-RW with label such as “Lady Gaga.” He then erased the music and then wrote a compressed split file. “[I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” said Manning in an interview with The Guardian.
Lady Gaga has announced on Twitter that she has hit 1 billion total views on YouTube. She is the first musician to hit 1 billion views on YouTube and Justin Bieber is not far behind. Bieber has over 900 million views. Justin Bieber’s hit song “Baby” has the most video views on YouTube of all time with over 365 million views. [Mashable]