ZillionTV died Monday.  They may not admit it, but much like Akimbo still refuses to admit it is dead, ZillionTV just hasn’t crossed over, but it’s lying dead on the table.  Rallied by an overhyped Ben Silva, (overhyped is the polite word for the man who claims he won 7 Emmy’s but isn’t in IMDB [...]

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Robert Scoble and I had a rather intense discussion around Friend Feed vs. Twitter the other night. He argues that Twitter is a sucky place to have a conversation, and I argue the Friend Feed is a sucky place to have a conversation. (in many ways they both are). Robert argued mostly points about the [...]

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In this rapidly evolving world of online marketing it is sometimes hard to remember what all the terms mean, let alone how the strategy works.  As such I have broken down the various services as applied to the bar scene. Brandon walks up to the cute girl at the bar and says “I’m great in [...]

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Christine Lu is the Top China Expert when it comes to how to take an American business to China.  Converting your business to work in the Chinese economy and market is not just a matter of translating your existing ad copy to Mandarin and Cantonese, it takes an understanding of the culture, politics, and business [...]

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PR Web and CNN have sent the search term Greatest Living American to the top of the trends list, once again.  As Colbert was just made Webby Person of the year and the press release claimed him to be Greatest Living American.   Well not so fast my Bear Hating Foe!  I earned that title Fair [...]

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www.isayhello.com went live last night.  The front page is ugly, I don’t have as many human edited pages as I would like, but it is day one, and this is the first step.  In the coming days you will start to see better and better results pages, and more “Category” templates. Not all results will [...]

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A How to Guide: Microsoft Windows Media Video 8, and DivX By Brandon Wirtz bwirtz@griffin-digital.com This document has now been expanded in to a full fledged book and multimedia presentation.  To find out more visit my Digerat.com page here An Introduction: 1 Choosing the Right Codec: 2 Best Codec by Bit Rate: 3 Implementation: 4 [...]

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In case you were wondering who invented Face Book?  It was ME Brandon Wirtz inventor of Facebook but not FaceBook.com that was someone else.  But back in 1996 I was about to graduate High School, and was on year book committee and though we should have a big hard bound book of everyone in the [...]

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Brandon Wirtz is The Omniscient Deity of Video.  Because Google says it, it will be true.  Not until the crawler finds this, but in the mean time  just know that my supreme powers of SEO, the same powers that made me the Greatest Living American.  Will soon make me The Omniscient Deity of Video as [...]

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Jonah left a comment for me which reads: “I would think that even with your new found celebrity status, or because of it, you would have found the time write a post thanking the San Francisco SEO company that was the inspiration for your rise to greatest living American.” I wasn’t avoiding you Jonah, I [...]

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Role model and space hero Rowby launches his 98 cent space ship to search the universe for the Greatest Living American. The dimwitted Space Cows are on the lookout but keep forgetting their mission. The Green Thing is suspicious from the beginning, and thinks that Rowby is not telling the real reason for his search [...]

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Man Competes with Stephen Colbert for Greatest American Title April 27, 2007 – Mountain View, CA. Brandon Wirtz–a Microsoft employee in Mountain View, California–is competing with comedy legend Stephen Colbert for the title of “Greatest Living American.” Wirtz was previously ranked as the “Greatest Living American” according to the popular search engines Yahoo and Google. [...]

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Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American: A completely biased look at Brandon Wirtz and Stephen Colbert. Stance on Bears: Stephen Colbert has announced on multiple occasions that he is a Hater of Bears, all Bears, but especially Polar Bears. Brandon loves bears, and as a Native of Michigan, and Resident of California he shows [...]

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 I’m holding my own in Number 2 Position.  Pretty Impressive for only having been in the race for about 48 hours.   Brandon Wirtz is the Greatest Living American  with some caveats of course ;-) .

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Stephen Colbert is out to steal my thunder as Greatest Living American.  So I’m actively going to try and Foil Him.  I may not have his legions of people, but this is about SEO, and his followers don’t have my friends Google Rank. I may not be qualified to be the Greatest… but I am [...]

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What do Tom Greene, Ryan Seacrest, Jenny Mc Carthy, Jake Ludington, and Brandon Wirtz all have in common? We were all on MTV without having to sing. MTV Obsessed

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