they're trying to sell stuff to entrepreneurs (who've never heard of grand central / google voice). Obviously this video is a cynical viral marketing ploy... lame.
I was thinking the exact thing. Even watching the video it seems like they really tried to copy Google's brand... not sure if I can trust anyone that blatantly copies someone's brand.
Uh, a "gadget review" site festooned with BlackBerry sponsorships, where the primary answer to "what's gdgt?" is a Flash video. Gotcha. Did someone famous start this and I missed the memo, or is this simply not news?
I think you're talking about the second sentence in my post, when really that was just a joke. The main point was that it was probably done by someone looking to show an impact for promotion, which I don't think is a HN meme regarding google, like (n+1 chat apps, google eats your privacy, what will google deprecate next) are.
Hacker News is great. Saw the video and got nothing, came here and got the facts.
Side note: Google has been taken over by marketers, the engineers who built this must be cringing.
Certainly not a startup way to do this, feels a bit like Wave ie massive ambition, not useful out of the box to anybody.
"I’d like you to meet Douglas. On this call (first 2 minutes) you can clearly hear Douglas identify himself as Google Kenya employee, state, and then reaffirm, that GKBO is working in collaboration with Mocality, and that we are helping them with GKBO, before trying to offer the business owner a website (and upsell them a domain name). Over the 11 minutes of the whole call he repeatedly states that Mocality is with, or under (!) Google."
As far as I could bear with the unsynced video, it looks like they are trying to catch customers who are used to use Google Wave for project management/collaboration..
http://blog.entrepreneur.com/2009/05/video-entrepreneurs-can...
they're trying to sell stuff to entrepreneurs (who've never heard of grand central / google voice). Obviously this video is a cynical viral marketing ploy... lame.
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