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Re: Vooza

#11

Post by delinquentme » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

I like the part where they use humor, because I would have just been as asshole about it.

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#12

Post by laconian » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

It is kind of sad how this Mad Libs exercise accurately describes so many of the startups that dominate the headlines and monopolize our talent.

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#13

Post by benihana » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

Beta user of Vooza here. Just gotta say, I love how the cloud based crowd sourced API social graph seamlessly allows me to wiki the S3 storage for microblogging and geolocation services by using distributed computing. It's pretty amazing!

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#14

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:16 PM UTC

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#15

Post by JonnieCache » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

Woefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name.

Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4

For that matter, so did Color.

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#16

Post by iM8t » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:20 PM UTC

Will it run on my iPhone?

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#17

Post by oacgnol » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:22 PM UTC

Doomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?

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#18

Post by mintplant » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:26 PM UTC

jonzjia wrote: post #9

"Vooza needs money. That way we can go...international." Brilliant.

Correction: they need users.

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#19

Post by slavak » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:29 PM UTC

Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/1060/

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#20

Post by brado86 » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

...And we've arrived at the zombo.com point of this round of startup fever.