Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
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Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#2If anyone can get the rest of the article up I'd like to read it.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#3I really like that he termed a website an "operating system." It's funny to see what kind of weird stuff comes out of the mind of rock stars only surrounded with yes men.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#4This is the network he was plugging:
http://modlife.com/
There are a lot of other sites in this space and I can't say this one stands out as being particularly impressive.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#5The way I see it, this is just an entrepreneur being very passionate about his product, and some too-cool-for-school kids make jokes about it.
I submitted the (full) source article to HN a couple of hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034444
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#6I really like that he termed a website an "operating system." It's funny to see what kind of weird stuff comes out of the mind of rock stars only surrounded with yes men.
People refer to Facebook as an "operating system":
http://www.redherring.com/Home/23046
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Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#7The way I see it, this is just an entrepreneur being very passionate about his product, and some too-cool-for-school kids make jokes about it. I submitted the (full) source article to HN a couple of hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034444
Neither of these are the source article, which isn't online. Your nymag link does appear to predate this one, but they're independent of one another: the New Yorker is not short on print subscribers.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#8The way I see it, this is just an entrepreneur being very passionate about his product, and some too-cool-for-school kids make jokes about it. I submitted the (full) source article to HN a couple of hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034444
Neither of these are the source article, which isn't online. Your nymag link does appear to predate this one, but they're independent of one another: the New Yorker is not short on print subscribers.
You're right, my apologies. The names must have gotten me confused.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#9I really like that he termed a website an "operating system." It's funny to see what kind of weird stuff comes out of the mind of rock stars only surrounded with yes men.
People refer to Facebook as an "operating system": http://www.redherring.com/Home/23046 or http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+operating+system
That's mostly because its founder originally did so. I highly doubt that you'll find someone referring to Facebook as an operating system prior to that.
Re: Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
#10I really like that he termed a website an "operating system." It's funny to see what kind of weird stuff comes out of the mind of rock stars only surrounded with yes men.
People refer to Facebook as an "operating system": http://www.redherring.com/Home/23046 or http://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+operating+system
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