In just 6 short years, Youtube has become the greatest source of video footage ever put together. With over 48 hours of video being uploaded and more than 500 YouTube links being tweeted every minute, it’s nearly impossible to ensure that your video will get any hits whatsoever, even considering that over 150 years of YouTube videos are watched every day on Facebook alone!

Finally there’s a tool to help! Introducing Magisto, a Magical Video Editing website that edits your home videos for you. “Amazing!” you say? Even more amazing is that there’s no one behind the process, it’s completely automated. Magisto uses it’s own specially designed algorithms to cut, chop and change any and all of your home made videos into amazing highlights packages, even adding a soundtrack. They’ve even managed to get the attention of the video hosting site and last week announced that they have partnered with Youtube to make video sharing even easier!

Pretty useful considering nearly 17 million people have connected their YouTube accounts to at least one social service.

You can sign up on their website, or login using Facebook or Google+.

Visit Magisto’s blog for more info.

Lunch is a daily inconvenience. First you have to choose what you want. Then you have to make it. Then you have to package it for easy transportation that won’t make you look like an idiot. Enter this awesome dad who draws characters onto his children’s lunch bags, and then uploads the weekly lunch time artwork onto his blog. What a winner. Now whilst our dads can only draw stickmen, we can rest easy tonight knowing two kids, somewhere in America, have really, really cool lunch bags. So take a look at a few of our chosen ones and try convince yourself you don’t want this guy as your dad.

We Gorillas have never won a Loerie Award. In fact, we’ve never even been invited to South Africa’s most prestigious advertising awards ceremony… We’d like to think it’s because we’ve only just celebrated our third birthday, and let’s face it, who wants a toddler at an upmarket, black tie affair. But the truth is that it is more likely due to Barry Tuck’s Twitter timeline.

But going on the video the Loerie organisers have just released to promote the 33rd Annual Loerie Awards, we’re holding thumbs that Barry’s tweets will crack us an invite. Because let’s face it, if this is how Riaan Cruywagen rolls, our Guy Who Does Stuff looks like a saint!

What’s the coolest thing you can think of doing with a large group of people? Calm down and get your minds out of the gutter! We’re talking about flash mobs.

Thanks to the help of the internet and social media, flash mobs have really gained popularity over the last decade. Despite the fact that they are difficult to arrange and even harder to execute, they have become marketing commonplace and a well timed job can affect a much greater target area. More then half the challenge is actually getting them on camera, or everyone’s efforts can be wasted.

Youtube is strewn with every oddball group with a message’s failed attempts at recording public shock and awe. But every once and a while you’ll find a gem that’s worth sharing. Personally we love them, and this world record attempt at The World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight, while not a traditional flash mob, is exactly why!

8,957 people! 175,141 balloons. Enjoy.

With an estimated 700 million active users now on Facebook, the social networking platform has become a microcosm, nay macrocosm, in itself… A representation of real life relationships and social interactions, it’s interesting to see how anti-social some people can unconsciously be. So perhaps it’s time to lay down some ground rules around basic Facebook etiquette, to allow everyone a pleasant cyber experience…