Mentos
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment And with many government and financial services increasingly being delivered online it's serious stuff people are being excluded from - not just throwing sheep at friends on Facebook or watching videos of Mentos and... [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.06.07
Round-Up YouTube went offline to Moroccans on 25 May, meaning anybody in Fez or Casablanca looking for footage of Mentos being dropped into bottles of Diet Coke will have been out of luck. In life it's important to know who you... [01 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up Next he'll be filming himself dropping packets of Mentos into bottles of Diet Coke. Isn't that Tony Blair brilliant. The Round-Up thinks he's going to make a great Prime Minister. Oh, hang on.he's done what? [11 May 2007]
Blair goes YouTube to toast Sarkozy
News YouTube's not just for clips of Diet Coke and Mentos: Tony Blair has used the video-sharing site to offer his congratulations to new French president Nicholas Sarkozy. The video, which has been watched over 100,000... [09 May 2007]
Cisco: Businesses must learn from social networks
News For example, though many consumers have the power to skip past a Coke commercial, the unexpected success of the Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment video made popular on YouTube affords Coca-Cola a whole new way of... [03 May 2007]
Google: 'We won't ruin YouTube'
News Google began sharing advertising revenue with the makers of the popular Coke-and-Mentos video that appeared on YouTube last year. Google has said it will protect the YouTube brand and aim not to "break the bond" the... [08 Feb 2007]
ITU 06 diary - Wi-fi on 'the beach', what's hot in mobile search and a long tail with legs
Comment One Microsoft exec comes up with the term "15 megabytes of fame" for those fleeting YouTube stars whose efforts - like dropping Mentos into Coke - sees them becoming virally famous. In between running to catch up with... [06 Dec 2006]
Cisco: Businesses will adopt YouTube model
News Video sharing site YouTube may have a more profound effect on commerce than just boosting sales of Diet Coke and Mentos. Business will soon come to see user generated content as an unavoidable part of everyday business,... [04 Dec 2006]
Coke-and-Mentos video makers get Google's ad dollar
News The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment", according to Peter Chane, a senior... [31 Oct 2006]
Leader: YouTube and the grey suit brigade
Leader The videos are considerably less entertaining (and less frivolous) than the majority of YouTube clips - which in the main are focused on providing evidence of what happens when you drop a tube of Mentos into a bottle of... [22 Aug 2006]
Photos: Top of YouTube - 10 clips taking the net by storm
Photo Though it's light on the technology, this clip of "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments" took the internet by storm and had every geek doing some home science projects. There was no shortage of humorous jabs... [21 Jul 2006]