Our little Justine has grown so much in the past few days. The iPhone bill craze of 2007 has arrived and I’m really not surprised at the amount of attention she is getting. It was just a matter of time before she got some press. Let me just give you some numbers on the 300 page iPhone bill video. The video itself has been watched over 570,000 times. The most views coming at Break.com where it has over 360,000 views. The funny part about the video on Break.com is that it was submitted by Justine with the description of
This incredibly hot chick gets her first bill for the iPhone and although the bill was not excessive she received over 300 pages showing every text message she made with unlimited text messaging.
The story about the iPhone bill has been covered worldwide. TV and newspapers have taken notice about this story. Not to mention the hundreds of blogs that have talked about Justine and her boxed bill. USA Today did a nice writeup about it titled How many trees did your iPhone bill kill?. The reason this all started in my view is because of the Gizmodo story The Madness Begins, which was on the frontpage of DIGG.com and was dugg over 2000 times. Here is the video that everyone loves!
Something I keep seeing on every site is people asking the question “How can she do so much texting?” If you follow iJustine you would know that she has to touch her phone every few minutes. The phone vibrates nonstop all day. Between Facebook notifications and Twitter updates I can see her easily having 30,000 text messages. Just think of how many people are trying to either add her on facebook or sending her messages. I myself get about 25 text updates from facebook a day. Justine’s amount is probably off the charts. I’m glad to see Justine getting all this attention. Hopefully it will bring out the sponsors!
The date was August 5th, the time was around 11pm pst. Justin and the crew released a brand new Justin.tv with a new look and more importantly some great new features to the site. Here is my review of the new Justin.tv.
Channel Pages
Some of the notable changes of the channel pages are:
Brand New Header for the site
An archive page for each channel with best of Tips and recent Tips
Newly submitted tips now show up in chat and also under the video player after being submitted.
A list of recent channel tips for the current channel your on and also a separate list for recommended tips for all channels
A redesigned JTV video player
Portal Page
The portal page can be seen HERE I have to admit that I really like the portal page. Of course as you can see they are using coverflow which is used in iTunes and on the iPhone. Hopefully they won’t be sued by apple for “borrowing” coverflow. The portal makes it really easy to browse through all the channels as you can just click an arrow to go to the next casters stream without having to load up a new page. Very handy for those who are channel surfers.
Archive Page
An example of an archive page can be seen HERE The archive I am linking to is the one where Norah falls out of her chair. One of my personal favorites.
I can see the JTV crew have really worked hard on this page and it is almost perfect. 3 new features they added with this updates are:
The ability to download the archive video of the tip! So now you can download your favorite archive.
You can now comment on tips.
Embeddable archive video. JTV now gives you the code so you can embed your favorite tip on your own webpage.
Some changes are needed.
As far as the archives and tips I would like to see them implement the ability to delete a tip or comment that you have made.
Yes I know the portal page is just a beta page at the moment but I think it needs to be worked on to make it load a little quicker. Once the performance of the page is acceptable it should be the default page of justin.tv. Justin should not be the default page for JTV.
So go check out the new Justin.tv page. It’s a big step up from the last designs.
Late last night someone in the iJustine chat had mentioned that the iJustine.tv facebook app had been removed. So I decided I would create a facebook app for Justines stream. It can be found at http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2411053783
After doing Justine’s app I decided to update Justin’s facebook application also. So both apps are working and ready to be added to your profile. If you would like for me to make an application for another JTV Lifecaster just reply in the comments and I’ll get an app up for that channel.
Our little Justine has grown so much in the past few days. The iPhone bill craze of 2007 has arrived and I’m really not surprised at the amount of attention she is getting. It was just a matter of time before she got some press. Let me just give you some numbers on the 300 page iPhone bill video. The video itself has been watched over 570,000 times. The most views coming at Break.com where it has over 360,000 views. The funny part about the video on Break.com is that it was submitted by Justine with the description of 