Rauno Altonen and Paddy Hopkirk are paying a visit to the twisting streets of Monte Carlo, where they celebrated their greatest victories at the Rallye Monte Carlo in 1963/64.

Different to the Sixties this time the duo drives a brand new MINI John Cooper Works Cabrio. The car and the tricky corners bring back lots of memories, go-kart feeling and driving excitement. You can see the rallye legends driving through Monte Carlo passing famous places such as Col de Braus, Col de Torini. 

• on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toCvFjvBRM8
• on StumbleUpon: http://su.pr/1paw4E
• on Digg: http://digg.com/u3DSsi
• http://twitter.com/phreak20/status/4522180361
  

Anyone who's lived in Berlin knows that the city is a pot of gold when it comes to driving: wide paved streets, few pedestrians and scarcely a traffic jam, not to mention Germany's famed speed-limit-free autobahn.

So what better way to explore the city in the warmer months than with Mini Cooper's new cabrio? Click here for our tour of Berlin's best summer-ready locales, co-sponsored by the most luxurious pint-sized car around.

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When we found out that there was a "making of video" for our favorite new MINI viral we were hesitant to watch it. We like the original so much, we were scared that watching how it was made would...

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Die Viral Video Awards 2009 sind gestartet und man kann jetzt Videos einreichen. Nerdcore ist Medienpartner der VVAs und ich werde die Sache bis zur Verleihung der Preise im November 2009 ein wenig begleiten, oben der Gewinner 2008, „Die Manta-Verschwörung", Snip von der Website:

Im Rahmen des 25. Internationalen Kurzfilmfestival Berlin, das vom 03. bis 08. November 2009 stattfindet, veranstalten interfilm Berlin und Zucker.Kommunikation mit dem "international viral video award" die zweite Ausgabe des Wettbewerbs für virale Filme auf einem Filmfestival in Deutschland.

Es werden zwei Preise vom Publikum und einer Fachjury vergeben. Dem Sieger winken jeweils mindestens 500 Euro.

Nach Auswahl der besten Videos startet das online-Voting des Wettbewerbs am 5. Oktober 2009 hier.

Virals gesucht!

Gesucht werden Filme mit Botschaft. Alle Einreichungen sollten die Absicht haben, eine werbliche, ideelle, politische oder originelle Botschaft zu vermitteln. Sie dürfen höchstens zwei Jahre alt sein und sollten online unterwegs sein.

Viral Video Awards 2009

1959 - 2009: It has been a fantastic journey and the most exciting is still to come!

The brand film "Rebel without Pause" focuses on MINI fans and drivers all around the world and their personal experiences with MINI.

In a documentary style the milestones of MINI history are shown - narrated by authentic people: From the future to the past - back to present and vice versa.

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RT @phreak20 New viral? #MINI Cabrio. Radical Maneuver. http://digg.com/d1p9Qp plus http://tinyurl.com/czf79w -- da gabs schon bessere! =(

Super zusammengefasst von smeidu auf dem Knallgrau Blog. Die gute Nachricht, Knallgrau betreut die erfolgreichste Automobilmarke auf YouTube und ist damit führender Know-how Träger in der gesamten D/A/CH Region für dieses Thema:

Pos.	Brand	VideoViews	Videos	online seit
01	BMW*	7.828.824	318	31 Monate
02	Cadillac	6.147.151	36	28 Monate
03	Ferrari	2.647.919	243	12 Monate
04	Jeep	2.640.901	147	39 Monate
05	Honda	1.545.140	87	11 Monate
06	Nissan	1.020.834	268	32 Monate
07	Fiat	758.520	88	11 Monate
08	Porsche	435.526	33	12 Monate
09	MINI*	260.665	41	4 Monate
10	Volvo	234.329	54	8 Monate
11	Suzuki	179.364	56	12 Monate
12	Jaguar	171.508	24	28 Monate
13	VW	170.246	17	4 Monate
14	Audi	170.107	49	9 Monate
15	Mercedes Benz	120.586	67	5 Monate
16	Chevrolet	92.132	35	5 Monate
17	Mitsubishi	67.114	51	6 Monate
18	Toyota	50.086	7	2 Monate
19	Maserati	49.129	18	10 Monate
20	Ford	34.067	33	4 Monate

* = von Knallgrau betreut.
(Daten via YouTube & Tubemogul.com)
Der Bericht zu den Top 20 Automarken auf YouTube im Detail im Knallgrau Blog

Youtubedirectlink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UlaKOIdZg

Have you seen that? - A spectacular drive of two MINI Clubman on the German autobahn.

Let's #MINI! Introducing 3 new models at the International Geneva Motor Show http://tinyurl.com/dg7ed3

MINI Cabrio. Car Wash

The video was shot as the grand finale of filming the soon to be released TV spots for the new MINI Cabrio. Watch four guys crazy enough to go through a car wash in an open convertible! Keep eyes open for more to come!

MINI Cabrio. Making of Car Wash

"Always open" is the motto of the new MINI Convertible Campaign. Your coolness is meashured with the "Olways Open Timer" which counts the time you are driving open!

MINI YouTube http://www.youtube.com/MINI is showing 3 videos about the premiere presentation, marketing and design:

• MINI Cabrio and the MINI E. The world premiere and a milestone in Detroit.

Always Open. See the new MINI Cabrio crushing the ice cube at the Detroit Motor Show 2009, ready to face whatever nature has to throw at it.

MINI is also presenting a milestone, the MINI E. Unlimited driving excitement with zero emissions.

• MINI Cabrio. Always open. Radical marketing insights.

Creative excellence. Guerrilla. Internet. Presenter Chris worms some outstanding marketing activities out of Dr. Armbrecht - Senior Vice President of MINI Brand Management.

All the interlocking steps to cater even more oxygen to the community.

• MINI Cabrio. Always open. The new MINI Cabrio is open for absolutely anything.

Snowy face? Tom Kunze the Launch and Product Manager of the new MINI Cabrio shows us the Always Open Timer, the easy-load function and many other features.
 
You can feel the thrill of open air motoring without compromises. And you will understand that snow is just a 4 letter word.
 

Check out the MINI Channel at YouTube. Stay tuned, befriend & subscribe!

New blog post: ALWAYS OPEN im neuen Mini Cabrio rumfahren http://tinyurl.com/7kmdcu

I found this hot Mini Cooper with an all reflective, vinyl sticker kit and a video on how it was all put together at Garage 419. This glow in the dark mini art car was created by Scott Chester at ACID STUDIOS and the result is simply stunning. The project was inspired by the BMW Art Car project between 1975 & 1999, where artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg (R.I.P.) made one of a kind works of art from BMWs' finest automobiles.


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phreak20: I just subscribed the new #MINI Channel http://www.youtube.com/MINI

There's always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said "We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that's no longer the case, so we changed the plan quite a bit... We've moved revenue higher on our list of priorities...".



I believe Twitter, potentially, has an incredible business model.



In The New York Times R&D Labs, where I work, we've been talking a lot about 'smart content', both in relation to advertising, search and news delivery. For the past 157 years (that's how old the newspaper is) we've essentially delivered 'dumb content' to people's doorsteps. You and I, irrespective of interests, location etc. have received the same newspaper on our doorsteps every morning. We're beginning to explore ways to make content smarter, to understand what you've read, which device you've read it on and you're micro level interests--making the most important news find you, instead of you having to find it.



This also changes the advertising model where ads become even smarter. Sure, ads are at about a 1st grade reading level now, with adsense and cookies the ad networks have half an idea of what I'm interested in, but they aren't exactly smart about it. Just because a friend sends me an email about a baseball game, doesn't mean I want to see ESPN ads in my Gmail.



So what does this have to do with a Twitter business model? Twitter, potentially, has the ability to deliver unbelievably smart advertising; advertising that I actually want to see, and they have the ability to deliver search results far superior and more accurate to Google, putting Twitter in the running to beat Google in the latent quest to the semantic web. With some really intelligent data mining and cross pollination, they could give me ads that makes sense not for something I looked at 3 weeks ago, or a link my wife clicked on when she borrowed my laptop, but ads that are extremely relevant to 'what I'm doing right now'.



A quick parusel of my Tweets shows that I live in Brooklyn, NY, I work for The New York Times, teach at NYU/ITP, I travel somewhere once a month for work, I love gardening, cappuccinos, my Vespa , U.I./Design and hardware hacking, I'm a political news junkie, I read Gizmodo & NYTimes.com and I was looking for a new car for a while, but now have a MINI and I'm also friends with these people. That's a treasure trove of data about me, and it's semantic on a granular level about only my interests.



If I send a tweet saying "I'm looking for a new car does anyone have any recommendations", I would be more than happy to see 'smart' user generated advertising recommendations based on my past tweets, mine the data of other people living Brooklyn who have tweeted about their car and deliver a tweet/ad based on those result leaving spammers lost in the noise. I'd also expect when I send a tweet saying 'I got a new car and love it!' that those car ads stop appearing and something else, relevant to only me, takes it's place.



And it doesn't have to be advertising delivered on their site alone. One of the great successes of Twitter has been their API's and the wonderful applications and sites that users have built with them. Why not build out an advertising or search API that delivers the latest micro level tags or ad links of users interests. There's a plethora of opportunity with this data, and if it's done right it becomes enticing and engaging, not annoying, irrelevant and outdated.

a video from the MINI Crossover presentation booth in Paris http://tinyurl.com/5477yd (via @vlogbyMINI)

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MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS viral video "XTreme Catapulting" nominated:

http://www.viralvideoaward.com/extreme-catapulting/

Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!

Über 500 Videos aus 34 Ländern wurden für die von Spreeblick unterstützten, im Rahmen des 24. internationalen Kurzfilmfestival 08 stattfindenden viral video awards eingereicht, und auch wenn bestimmt wahnsinnig spannendes Material dabei war, bin ich doch über die Maßen dankbar, nicht zum Vorauswahl-Kommitee gehört zu haben.
Jetzt aber stehen überschaubare 24 Filme zur Wahl, für die ich bei der Preisverleihung am 7. November im Roten Salon meinen Daumen rauf- oder runterdrehen werde.

Vorlegen dürft ihr: Vom 6.10. bis zum 6.11. liegt die Entscheidung beim Publikum.

Four doors, four single seats, agility on all fours and the first MINI measuring more than four meters in length - the MINI Crossover Concept.

Join Gert Hildebrand, the chief designer of MINI. Look and see this extraordinary design with features unique to the world over.

Its a new level of versatility - the multifunctional MINI Center Rail - and innovation - the three-dimensional MINI Center Globe. Drop the keyball and buckle up for a future ride with MINI.

Stay tuned for video updates at: http://www.youtube.com/vlogbymini

Digg it here: http://digg.com/auto/
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At the Paris Motor Show 2008 the MINI brand is taking a new approach with the world premiere of the MINI Crossover Concept.

The MINI family grows further and this time the MINI genes crossed over in an unforeseen way.

The MINI Crossover Concept is unveiled. Be the first to take a peak at this extraordinary concept with completely new measures and innovative functionality ideas.

Stay tuned for video updates at: http://www.youtube.com/vlogbymini

Digg it here: http://digg.com/auto/
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The Paris Motor Show will be held at Paris Porte de Versailles, from 4 to 19 October 2008, taking up the entire exhibition park. Several hundred international brands will be there to meet you, to offer you a big-time automobile bonanza once again.