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?
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.
And there's no demonstration of how it works in the video or in any images. It's as if some people at Google decided to react to Apple's recent bad press by putting up a web page and a blog post announcing a product without actually having built anything yet.
This is a tech-focused link aggregator. Googles a pretty big player in the tech industry, so it seems natural that at some point there may be many google related articles about.
You would know this isn't "fake news" if you spent the time it took to write your post to visit the link instead.
I feel like this is some sort of promotional piece, but I can't quite get the angle - is he a fictitious individual made up by Google? Is this an attempt by Apple to make Google employees look weird? Is he a real person who's looking to publish a book?
Perhaps it's entirely legit, but it just seems so, so strange to me.
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.
Looks like a cool idea but it appears to be nothing more than a public posting? When I got to the page the top line said "Chad S. pledged to buy a $100,000.00 gift card at Google in Boston."
The content is the link and the discussing of Google using GoDaddy. The presentation is the fact there's a hashtag in the title and everyone with their underwear in a twist over a # sign.
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