Friday Fishwrap (10-10-08): a-ha’s “Take On Me” – the literal version
Happy Friday, yooRyoo denizens! In today’s Friday Fishwrap we’ll share with you the latest “virile marketing” video that’s sweeping the YouTube internet…but before we do, let’s share with you the results of the polling from last Sunday’s “Is It Real” – McDnlds…
For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, every week yooRyoo presents a web 2.0 company or idea, and asks our readers to decide whether the company is real or not, without the help of the web in anyway. Last Sunday, we presented McDnld’s – a social network launched by our favorite fast-food company – defining an online community where adults and kids alike can blog and post videos and share their favorite experience with french fries. Then we asked you to vote, and here are the results:
- 60% of you answered that you thought it was real
- 40% of you thought it was fake
In reality, McDnld’s is fake. The fast-food company doesn’t need to launch an online community, because they already have a “Havin’ Fun with McDonald’s” website. While their site is definitely not web 2.0, I don’t think they care (since they have tremendous presence all over the web, already).
Incidentally, I got the idea for McDnld’s from this great Flickr posting by shopping2null:
Ok, now on to our Friday Fishwrap video – this week we are featuring a new video that take a “literal” approach to defining 1980′s music videos. Enjoy Take On Me: Literal Video Version:




















October 10th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Okay you finally sucked me in with the Take on Me video. Pretty amusing. I’m getting frigin old. What happened to MTV?