inspiredworlds.com » MC Hammer http://inspiredworlds.com Where the worlds of Digital and Business collide. Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:39:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Black Eyed Peas v MC Hammer Mashup: U Can’t Touch My Humps http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/black-eyed-peas-v-mc-hammer-mashup-u-cant-touch-my-humps/ http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/black-eyed-peas-v-mc-hammer-mashup-u-cant-touch-my-humps/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:16:08 +0000 Matthew Ho http://inspiredworlds.wordpress.com/?p=466 Whilst trawling the net for some MC Hammer pictures, I thought why not check youtube? It’s the treasure chest of video content.

Most of the MC Hammer videos are pretty bad quality (since they are from the 80′s). Why don’t they re-release some of the videos in higher quality format? Or even do a remake – 2009 style. He’s obviously popular. One of the video’s with 9 million views has been banned by youtube. Youtube doesn’t actually “ban” the video and take it down these days if there’s a pending legal dispute. They actually just take away the sound. It’s pretty stupid.

So what the author did was replace it with a keyboard sound.

Anyhow, I came across this awesome mashup with Black Eyed Peas v MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch My Humps

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjP6QAobG24]

It’s brilliantly made and remixed.

And if you want the classic MC Hammer styles, check out the video below. It took me a while to find a decent version.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ2ZFVx6A4Q]

I’m out like MC Hammer mashups,

Matthew Ho

]]> http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/black-eyed-peas-v-mc-hammer-mashup-u-cant-touch-my-humps/feed/ 2 MC Hammer is driving incredible traffic to my blog http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/mc-hammer-is-driving-incredible-traffic-to-my-blog/ http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/mc-hammer-is-driving-incredible-traffic-to-my-blog/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:58:56 +0000 Matthew Ho http://inspiredworlds.wordpress.com/?p=456 mc-hammer-post1

Blog Stats in the last 14 days

What is going on with my blog traffic ? I had 158 hits today and I’m averaging close to 130 hits a day in the last 5 days. And its all coming from the following search terms:

  • mc hammer
  • mc hammer pants
  • m c hammer
  • mc hammer cant touch this
  • balloon pants

Obviously there is something going on with MC Hammer. I normally get like 10 – 50 hits a day, averaging like 30 hits daily. I’ve hit on something which I need to investigate. My most popular blog post is “MC Yammer: can’t touch this” with 500+ hits. It was actually was about Yammer, a software as a service that we use at work. It’s not about MC Hammer, though I saw the marketing connection with the name Yammer/Hammer. I started calling myself MC Yammer at work as a joke. I also posted up a lot of pictures of MC Hammer.

It’s clear to me that a) MC Hammer is a popular search term and b) My blog is getting a lot of traffic from using that keyword tag and c) MC Hammer must be back!!!!!!!!

MC Hammer & Dancejam

If you didn’t know already (Australian readers probably don’t), MC Hammer has a popular social networking site called dancejam. I first heard about it through Tech Crunch, because Michael Arrington the editor is one of the investors and he blogged about it.

Dancejam reminds me of So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) meets Youtube. People post up videos about  dancing, lessons, and their latest moves. it’s categorised into different styles for breaking, salsa, etc.. But the coolest feature is the dance off tournament style videos. MC Hammer chooses a style (e.g. popping, a style of breakdancing) and people face off against each other and users vote for the best. Its elimination style, so the winners proceed to the next round and eventually a winner is found.

I have to admit I don’t know any more about this website and will have to look into it. It’s clear to me that dance must also be huge now because of SYTYCD. It’s brought dance back into the mainstream and pique a lot of people’s interest. If you want to know more about the history of dancejam, read this. MC Hammer is also a huge star on twitter and uses it to tweet about latest videos and tournaments. He’s got 144,000 followers on twitter and clearly is one of the most popular tweeters out there. I think only Obama, Stephen Fry, and Chris Brogan have more followers.

I’m out like balloon pants!

Matthew Ho aka MC Yammer

]]> http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/28/mc-hammer-is-driving-incredible-traffic-to-my-blog/feed/ 1 Yammer updates, interview and Yammer clothing line! http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/22/yammer-updates-interview-and-yammer-clothing-line/ http://inspiredworlds.com/2009/02/22/yammer-updates-interview-and-yammer-clothing-line/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:47:45 +0000 Matthew Ho http://inspiredworlds.wordpress.com/?p=444 Quick post on yammer:

Yammer released some new updates on highly requested features.

I found out about this update via the Yammer fanpage on facebook. Some of these are no brainers such as private DM ala Twitter. I really like the import RSS feed as well. I’ve already posted the link to the new features in our work yammer group and will discuss them during the week. I like to discuss  features on yammer one a day – as it gives people a chance to try them out.

Yammer CEO interview on social networking watch

This is a pretty good interview and gives you an insight to how Yammer works and where it is positioned against Twitter. I also left the following comment on the page:

“its interesting how Yammer has no insight into how companies are using Yammer because of their privacy guarantee, other than via blogs / twitter. Not every co. on yammer will blog or twitter.

Perhaps they should look into creating some Yammer user groups. identify who is the key yammer person in each organisation, and do a test pilot with 30 or so people providing feedback via yammer. they could eventually scale to hundreds of people. that way they would get greater insight. create subgroups for large organisations, IT organisations, FMCG, educational, etc… Why not use yammer to get feedback on itself?

the problem i’ve found is that even though we have yammer in our organisation, people still send out mass emails if they really need to get a message across, and we need to change that culture.

I’ve been appointed as the Yammer Evangelist in my company and i’d be happy to give feedback whether via a usergroup or directly. i’ve also written about how my company uses yammer here: http://inspiredworlds.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/mc-yammer-cant-touch-this/”

Yammer basketball singlet

Check out my new Next Digital basketball singlet. I decided to get a yammer inspired nickname, combined with my favourite retro rap star/dance star phenomenon/twitter superstar, MC Hammer:

MC Yammer - basketball singlet

I’m out like MC Yammer,

Matthew Ho.
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