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YouTwitFace: No Longer Just a Conan Joke

Source: Mashable!

Jul 01, 2009

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“YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting Web site called YouTwitFace”, Conan O’Brien predicted in his hilarious Year 3000 sketch (below). He may not be far wrong: the sites are becoming increasingly intertwined, with YouTube now automatically posting videos to Twitter, and Facebook now moving towards public updates, “followers” and a realtime search engine.

But YouTwitFace.com – the domain, not the idea – might come to something too. Its owner, Brian Kay, now intends to build out the site into a tribute to “social-media faux pas and the lighter side of technology”, reports the WSJ, combining blog posts and funny videos. Riding the back of Conan fame, he’s already put up a teaser page for the site. From the article:

Mr. Kay, a 44-year-old accountant, said he got the idea during a March dinner party, when friends were talking about the absurdities of the Internet era. “We decided to come up with a new site that would just poke fun at our use of technology,” he said. “We threw around every possible combination of YouTube, Twit

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Comments (6)

Thomaspower,

Jul 02, 2009

very funny

Albertrevette,

Jul 02, 2009

why people create such an awkward names, they do not have imagination why copycat each other, there is only one twitter people know and it shall stay this way

Symonthuo,

Jul 02, 2009

The owners must sit down agree on shareholding...I mean first things first.

Symonthuo,

Jul 02, 2009

The three are great innovation,but do the owner share the same vision...The train will be trapped in parochial interests. All venture capitalists who have invested heavily in these endevours must know each other before any merger-We are moving away from Mafia-kind of venture capitalists.

Symonthuo,

Jul 02, 2009

I have raised this issue as a result of first hand experience. What i have found-out is that, what is common sense in Western capital is not common in this part of the world. But it's understandable because old money does not want the new money to start flowing without their control.