December 5 is Ninja Day

Nevermind that Douglas “Ask a Ninja” Sarine is declaring December 5 Ninja Day, or that he’s having people plan Ninja Day activities with a wiki, or that he’s encouraging photo sharing with the unique tag “NinjaDay2006”. Just dig the sponsors for his DVD release: Yahoo, Microsoft, Revver, Meevee, DivX, and Laughing Squid. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock (or from a ninja) for the last year, “Ask a Ninja” is an award-winning series of online comedy videos parodying the image of ninjas in popular culture, independently produced by improv comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine.

Social media and viral marketing are the ways of the online marketing ninja. I’ll be at Yahoo presscon December 5, but I’ll try to kill somebody for Ninja Day.

The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments II

We all know about the first Diet Coke and Mentos experiment, but what if you could create a chain reaction with the two?

What’s especially cool is how Google is sharing ad revenue with the creators of this video. Google owns YouTube, and YouTube is huge in the Philippines. Filipino YouTube Directors could soon create a whole new domestic and export industry for digital video advertising.

On a side note, Revver and Metacafe still pay through PayPal. Too bad Filipinos can’t receive money through PayPal. Good thing Google sends checks to the Philippines.

(Via Elmer.)