If you think Apple successfully revolutionized music and the cell phone, you haven’t seen anything yet. Check out the new MacBook wheel:

For those that don’t know, the Onion News Network is fake news. Also, if you have yet to see the iRaq, this is worth seeing:

Last Friday I had a Corsa catback exhaust system and Random Technology high flow cats installed on my GTS Viper. The reasoning behind doing this was three-fold:

1. The new Corsa exhaust looks way better
2. The new exhaust sounds way better, and is much louder. It’s a V10, it should be loud!
3. Performance gains The new setup should have added about 25-30 horsepower to the wheels. That should give the Viper about 410whp (estimated), which is about 475hp to the crank (estimated).

Since video blogging is the new thing lately, I made a little video showing you the before and after…as well as my buddy’s Viper which has a full exhaust system (including the headers). Enjoy!

The weather on Saturday cleared up to become a perfect day in the afternoon, so Jason and I decided to take the Vipers out for a little drive around the town. I took some video so you can see how the new Viper looks. Interestingly enough I found the video got an honors on YouTube, as it was the #7 most popular video the day I posted it in the autos section. Somebody even noticed I was wearing my SmashMyViper.com t-shirt (that I haven’t worn in about a year).

Another part of the reason I wanted to make it was because John Chow was raving about his little Flip camera…and I just didn’t get it. While I realize it takes 2 gigs of video, basically everything digital camera takes good quality video as well. Why carry around two things, when you can do it in one? So just to prove it, I created this video using my Canon Powershot SD900 digital camera, and quickly editing it using Windows Movie Maker.

Revver is a site like YouTube where you can upload and share videos online. The main difference is that they allow you to make money on the videos you upload based on views. They give video owners 40% of their ad revenue. You can even make 20% of the ad revenue by just sharing other people’s videos.

This provides a great opportunity for people to make money, on top of a great reason for people to promote and grow Revver.

To better help grow themselves, Revver created their own Wordpress plugin that essentially creates a personalized video sharing solution made easy. You simply install the plugin and you have some awesome features at your fingertips:

• You can post videos by simply putting in their video ID
• The entire Revver library is available through your admin. This means you can find and post videos with just a couple clicks
• You can see exactly how much you’ve made through the Wordpress admin
• When your readers create an account on your blog, one is automatically made through Revver, so they can post video responses directly through your blog
• All video responses moderation are done through your Wordpress admin

This is an awesome all-in-one solution for anybody that is especially interested in having a blog to create and share their own videos. It makes things easy for site owners, and it makes it a no-brainer decision to go with Revver. That is why this is an ingenious idea for Revver to promote growth of their network. I would love to see YouTube/Google Videos do something like this, but without a revenue share platform, it may not be as popular.

A new company just launched that allows for a new simple way to monetize videos that are embedded on your site. Prerollr essentially works by overlaying an ad onto a video, and offering the publisher a revenue share. The ads are not video, it’s just a regular ad over the video, and requires the user to click a close button in order to get rid of it. As a publisher you can choose whether you want prerollr to display 100% of the inventory or just 25% of the inventory. Here’s an example of what the ad would look like over a YouTube video:

If you want to see a live example, I’ve implemented prerollr on VideoExperiment.com. I’ll report back and let you guys know how it does from a revenue perspective. As of right now, the reporting system doesn’t even get released until tomorrow (at the time of writing this).

Implementing the ads onto your site is easy, just add one line in your <head> area, and that’s it. Signing up to run the ads takes about 1 minute, just fill out the form and click a verification link in your e-mail.

What do you think about this?? Is it ok with you?? Or is it too intrusive/annoying?? Do you even realize there is a video behind it?? My personal opinion is that the ad is slightly too big, and may make people not realize there is a video behind it. Either that or maybe make the close button more obvious. Either way, this is a great new opportunity for vloggers to monetize their sites better.