Thursday, June 21, 2007

IKEA has a bot; her name is Anna, Anna is her name

The main thing I don't like about YouTube is that you don't get to choose the picture that represents your video. They just have a program that chooses a frame from the video and uses it as the picture that people see when they decide whether or not to watch your video. If it's a sucky frame, or a frame that reveals a surprise in the video and spoils the ending for viewers-- then tough luck.

Anyway, I made a silly parody video that you'll only understand if you're familiar with both the song "Boten Anna" and the "Ask Anna" function on IKEA's website. It would have been nicer if the picture had been one of the ones with Anna's face in them... but this is how it turned out:



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