Post by Adam B on Nov 6, 2009 8:19:44 GMT -5
National television appearances, a show of her own in development, a gig as a GoDaddy.com girl, a new book, an iPhone app, the title of being Wired.com’s “World’s #1 Sexiest Geek,” and all from posting videos on YouTube about the origins of words. To put it lightly, Marina Orlova knows a thing or two about working the web. With her website, hotforwords.com, expanding by the minute, and her YouTube videos having racked up over 250 million views, I sat down with the foxy philologist to find out more about how she went from posting short clips about word origins to starting her own empire. In addition to some business secrets, Orlova also revealed that Bill O’Reilly has a soft side, and why a ticket to space might be the ticket to her heart.
Read the full interview at: adambernard.blogspot.com/2009/11/marina-orlova-utilizing-youtube-for.html