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By: User links about "lifestreams" on iLinkShare

User links about "lifestreams" on iLinkShare — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:18:15 +0000

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By: Jennifer Van Grove

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:21:26 +0000

Daniel, I honestly think that your experiment acted like a mirror to the entire web/tech industry at the moment – it’s very reflexive. Good job on those screenshots and the logo. Very convincing.

Btw, I was referring to the tag I used on my own post (“prank”), which few picked up on as well.

By: smithereensblog

smithereensblog — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:13:15 +0000

Jennifer – I couldn’t agree more. Especially about the buzz-without-a-website bit. Although you do have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time ‘shopping up a screenshot

And the tag on post was “satire”, not “prank”, but yeah, not many seemed to notice that. I only point it out because I think there was hopefully valuable commentary hidden in the post, making it something more than an episode of Punk’d: Web 2.0 Edition Hopefully.

By: Jennifer Van Grove

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:16:39 +0000

Thanks for calling me a prominent blogger . The blog post I did on Streamulo.us, after of course I knew it was a prank (prank is actually a tag on that post), confirmed a few things for me:

1. all of us want to be first – maybe it’s the techcrunch or twitter effect, but a majority of us feel like being one of the first to join a beta site is something to be envious of
2. our attention spans are short – we’re not even reading anymore
3. you can generate buzz for a website without a website

It was fun and insightful experiment to say the least.

Confession: after the first read through of the post, I did add my email to signup form…I was suspicious of the prank, but still tempted enough to get sucked in a bit

By: Jennifer Van Grove

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:21:26 +0000

Daniel, I honestly think that your experiment acted like a mirror to the entire web/tech industry at the moment – it's very reflexive. Good job on those screenshots and the logo. Very convincing.

Btw, I was referring to the tag I used on my own post (“prank”), which few picked up on as well.

By: smithereensblog

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:13:15 +0000

Jennifer – I couldn't agree more. Especially about the buzz-without-a-website bit. Although you do have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time 'shopping up a screenshot

By: smithereensblog

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:29:38 +0000

No problem. Sorry for the typo in your name above. Oops.

By: Shey

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:58:56 +0000

Thanks Daniel

By: smithereensblog

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:55 +0000

Great post Mike. I commented on the FriendFeed thread too (see below) but just wanted to say thanks for being such a great sport and giving the story that little push into FF-viral territory. Nothing could have proved the point better.

By the way, I’m working on a post-mortem of my own and I’ll drop by later and post the URL. Cheers!

@Shay Don’t worry about it – you were in good company I’ll also point you here: http://friendfeed.com/e/f54f86ec-1262-4ead-8d05... in case you were worried about spam.

Daniel

By: Shey

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:53 +0000

HAHA I knew it!

But submitted my address anyway just in case I was wrong