Mar 03 2008

Dot.com Stupidities

Published by at 2:27 pm under Interactive Marketing,WTF?

Has the dumbness of the late 90s come back to plague the interactive world? Is the ghost of the Pets.com sockpuppet haunting Silicon Alley? Are the days of Flooz and Beanz and tightpants.com back as indicators of Bubble 2.0?

Here’s one found by Constantine von Hoffman at Collateral Damage. A video site with the unfortunate name of CashTomato.com took to the streets of New York’s Union Square to hand out tomatos and envelopes containing $29. A melee ensued.
He missed the YouTube video:

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2 Responses to “Dot.com Stupidities”

  1. # Chrison 03 Mar 2008 at 5:34 pm

    Nothing a solid launch party with an open bar and an angst ridden teen band can’t fix

  2. # Kristasphereon 04 Mar 2008 at 1:33 pm

    This should be a hands-down winner of the Darwin Awards.
    Hand out cash? In NYC? They deserve what they got for that stunt.

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