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It’s kind of embarassing, doesn’t he know that is sooo 2006?” remarked Cristobal Boyar DeFrancisco on Denver area man posting short videos of his trip to Buenos Aires:

Click on Denver area man photo to start the video

“I mean, c’mon, he even records it sideways, how whack is that?” adds Cristobal Boyar DeFrancisco. “That’s not even 2006, that is soooo 1996.”

Ricardo Montalban, a friend of the unnamed Denver man, says, “I don’t know what the big deal is, are we so enamored of new technology that we can’t appreciate older, or even current technology? I mean, that attitude itself is soooo 1876, you know, the year Graham Bell invented the first telephone. When that was invented, Marconi was overheard saying, ‘So what, now I can talk to my neighbor, but with radio, I can talk to the world!’ Just goes to show you, there’s always something new.”

Cristobal Boyar DeFrancisco responds, “Yeah, I wouldn’t use one of those stanky old phones either.” Asked what he thought was the best tech going, Cristobal rubs his chin for a moment and says, “Social networks based on Chuck Norris, it’s either that or interactive dinosaur toys. That my friend is bleeding edge.”

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Welcome to this Sunday’s edition of “Is It Real?” where we present to you a Web 2.0 company/product/service, and ask you to guess - without the use of the internet at all - whether it’s real or not. We collect votes all week, and then the following Friday, we reveal the real answer. Ready to get started?

Today we feature an ever-popular niche that’s making its way to the internet - social networking for your pet. You may have heard of Dogster.com, or even Catster.com - social networking platforms where dog or cat owners can create online profiles for their lovable, furry friends.

Now we bring you Hamsterer - a social networking community for small, furry, rodents. No, this isn’t some horrible Richard Gere joke site - this site is legit, and gives Hamster owners a platform to write, blog and even Tweet about little “ChesterBee” or “Mr. SnuggleMuffin.” This social networking platform for Hamster lovers has proved to be a genuine international success!

So, dear yooRyoo readers, the task is upon you - without searching the web in any way - make a decision: is Hamsterer a real online community for Hamster owners, or are we making it up? Vote below and tune back in on Friday for the results:

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Happy Halloween, yooRyoo readers! In today’s special Halloween edition we’re featuring a video that celebrates this auspicious, scary holiday…

But before then, let’s reveal the results of last Sunday’s “Is It Real?” feature - the ever-popular social networking site called StachePassions. In a nutshell, StachePassions is a social networking for men with moustaches to network and meet women who enjoy…men with mustaches. Sounds creepy - you should see the pictures in our post (link here).

We asked you to vote on if you think that StachePassions is a real site - here are the results:

• 50% of you actually believed it was true
• 33% said maybe
• 17% gave it a definite “no”

The real answer? Surprisingly enough, Stache Passions is true (don’t believe me - click this link here, but don’t say I didn’t warn you!).

OK, with that, we’ll get into our Friday video…today, we’re featuring the best of Halloween-themed internet sites. Enjoy, and don’t eat too much candy tonight!

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In response to the devastating news that Yahoo! plans to reduce it’s workforce by 10%, CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang indicated a way to continue to deliver its core services without impact to overall workflow.

“It’s simple, we’ll continue to provide the second-best search engine services, but reduce the amount of webpages we index by 10%. Problem solved!” he stated in an impromptu press conference today. After a moment, he added, “Besides 50% of the webpages out there are crap - who will notice?”

Yang then outlined the specific approach to determining which pages will actually show up in Yahoo’s SERPs after the restructure:

• 100% of all “adult” websites (as they are the most frequented and generate the most ad dollars for the company
• 50% of all sites with extensions .us, .tv, .cc and .gov (”Who really uses those sites, anyway” he commented)
• No MySpace sites at all (”That’s a dying social network anyway - those people really need to move to FaceBook”)

The restructure will be effective in 2009, when the company will change it’s name to “Yahoo 2.0! Your new Pron gateway!”

Joe Plumber was asked his opinion, since as a plumber making $250,000 he represents the common man’s opinion, “What? Another porn directory? There’s already a ton of them, and they ALL do a better job than Yahoo! I mean I just got off on…err, please strike that. Sir, can you strike that?”

When reached for comment, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, “Yahoo? They’re still around? Imagine that…Go Obama!”

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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:

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Note to yooRyoo readers, the following item is entirely true…sometimes we can’t make these things up:

A Google engineer released a new extension to Gmail that is designed to prevent “drunk emailing.” Entitled “Mail Goggles,” the engineer posted the following description on his blog:

Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?

If you add Mail Goggles to your existing Gmail account, it will automatically turn on late on Friday and Saturday nights. Everytime you try to send an email, it will ask you a series of math questions to prove your sobriety. Here is a screenshot of some of those questions:

Again, we have to stress that although it sounds like one of our fake postings, this is entirely real.

Here is a screenshot of the settings panel:

Still don’t believe us? Feel free to download and install this at the Offical Gmail Blog.
 

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Microsoft, in another desperate bid to become a “me-to” player in a technology space where they own 90% of the market, released today their response to the ever-popular Google Chrome browser: Rust. Leaving off where Netscape and Mosaic left off years ago, Microsoft’s Rust browser promises to bring a “nostalgic feel” back to surfing the web - back to the days of dial-up and Usenet groups.

“We’re excited,” says Steve Balmer, “web users are longing for the days when websites would take minutes - even hours to load. And there’s nothing more sublime than 76dpi graphics….aah, so serene.”

Google’s Rust browser strips out all those annoying Flash applications, cascading style sheets and anything Ajax-y, and delivers the web in all it’s simple glory. Forget ASP, JSP, or .NET - Rust delivers HTML simply and quickly.

“We’re excited,” says Balmer, “By delivering the ‘new web’ in such an old-school way, we’re removing all risks of viruses, malware and adware. This is what’s called in the tech-space, the old ‘bait and switch’.”

In a second surprise move, Microsoft announced that both Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates will return to their marketing campaign, to promote the Rust browser. This, after the much disputed firing of Seinfeld and Gates from their previous campaign.

Jerry Seinfeld, when cornered by rabid reporters, commented: “I was using Netscape when surfing the web on my Macintosh, back when I was starring on TV - this will be easy for me to promote.”

Bill Gates, when demo’ing the new Rust browser, remarked - “Wait a sec - didn’t we trounce these guys when we launched IE2 back in 1999? What gives?”

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Happy Friday, everyone! Every Friday, yooRyoo posts a few fun, online videos that will help you make it through the day and safely into the weekend. This week has been a rocky one with the financial news, but luckily one exciting technical bit of news was reveal - we finally found out who invented the Blackberry!!

No, it’s not the Canadian firm Research in Motion - it’s republican presidential nominate, John McCain (presumably when he was still alive)!!

Needless to say, Al Gore was nonplussed with the news. And Sarah Palin, when asked for comment, remarked “He invented Blackberries? Wow - and I just baked a pie full of them! He’s a genius!”

To celebrate this great advancement, yooRyoo presents a series of videos on this significant accomplishment - enjoy and have a great weekend!

John McCain Blackberry Ad

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Happy Friday, yooRyoo denizens! It’s been a crazy Web 2.0 week (particularly if you own a Sarah Palin website or blog). Judging by the web activity this last week, I expect this to be an interesting election cycle online.

Every Friday, on our Friday Fishwrap, yooRyoo presents the results of our “Is It Real?” poll from the previous Sunday, and then shares with you a fun, interesting video about Web 2.0. So, let’s get started:

Last Sunday, we featured a company called MyGlu - a web 2.0 open-source API that allows users the ability to thread together status updates and the like from a variety of social network sites. It’s all presented in a single, dashboard-like intereface. Then, we asked you to vote if the company is indeed real. Here are the survey results:

• 50% of you thought that MyGlu was real
• 50% thought that MyGlu might be real
• No one thought that MyGlu was fake.

Well, in all actuality, MyGlu is indeed a fake, made-up company - everyone was wrong! I guess it is believable that a service like MyGlu can exist (particularly since there are too many social networking sites in this day and age - I belong to seven myself - SEVEN!!!). Well, who knows what the future of the web will hold…

Which is a nice transition to today’s video. It’s entitled “Internet 1994” and features the cool, “new” possibilities of what the web could be. Sometimes it’s interesting to reflect that a mere 14 years ago, the web was filled with static webpages, indexed in categories by Yahoo! and Alta Vista. This video is a quaint, retro reminder of this new technology - enjoy!

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with horror. “What, do I have to start looking at ASCII photos of naked women again? I mean, what is this - 1982?” said one.

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