Our Prisoner Should Be Interesting For a Good 5 Minutes

How interesting can it be if can’t leave the house?

This whole thing sounds lame. Why would I want to watch a loser sit around doing s*** in his house? It might even be a bit gross.

I guess it’s either really popular or really bad, because the site is down.

The Truman Show 2.0?

Just without a great actor, funny plot and outside interaction?

yeah, i agree.

i wonder why they didn’t cast a hot blonde?

Err, Mike, you’ve got an extra ‘i’ in the site link, so it doesn’t work. The site itself is fine - don’t know about the concept. Maybe we’re running low on interesting companies …

dotcomguy.com…

Hasn’t this already been done? In the UK it’s a tv program called Big Brother, which you can pretty much watch 24 hours a day! Whats better is that they’ve got lots of people to laugh at and they occasionally get given some stupid task to do so that the nation on a whole can laugh at them.

Maybe they’re trying to get on the bandwaggon or something, it probably won’t work, although I guess it may be slightly more popular now it’s being publicised for being such a flop? haha.

Jordan hit it right on the head.

I’m afraid I don’t have the 8 minutes today, but thanks for pointing it out.

“www.bigloser.com” is more like it.

What does this on Techcrunch ?

First, there is a bad link in this blog entry. The link from the logo doesn’t work, but the text link next to it does.

The key to a site like this is that Kieran must be an interesting character. Someone people really find funny or makes people angry. Something. People may start to watch from time to time to be entertained.

The secondary key is to have a web site and technology that doesn’t get in the way. After giving it all of 60 seconds I found the site to be confusing, and the video didn’t seem to be working.

Hi

Sounds a lot like EdTV, the movie.

I like the idea of the recallable email by the ourprisoner owners, BigString, now thats interesting! Mike have you checked that out?

Oh my - you all are so horribly underestimating the tolerance the average net citizen has for the mundane. This ‘loser’ thing - it terms of value or interest - is no less valuable and no less interesting than 99% of what appears in all the so-called ’social networking’ sites.

All it will take is handful (or periodic) outrageous, perhaps even controversial acts for this thing to find it’s own space on the shelf of more mindless things to do on the internet.

|”The Truman Show 2.0?
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|Just without a great actor, funny plot and outside interaction?

There was a great actor on the Truman show?

yawn

Sounds exactly like DotComGuy.com from 2000… except he was put in a house with nothing but a laptop and the clothes on his back, and had to order everything from the internet….. and he did it for a full year. Webcams galore in his house, with a team that was ‘producing’ it for the web (switching cameras, etc).

So yeah, already been done…. 6 years too late.

It’s a retread of a dotcom era idea, which gave us dotcomguy and the New York Times had a reporter that did not leave his apartment, but ordered everything from online stores.

So, stunt.

The site is not ready for review and we are not sure how it ended up on TechCrunh. Please wait to pass judgement until you see the end product. Launch date is June 14th. In the meantime, we have taken down the beta site.

Darin Myman
CEO
Bigstring Corporation

Look at myspace did anyone truly believe that users would spend endless hours trying to replicate the look of ones bedroom on the net. I think you will be surprised at how interested America is in watching someone else who is more of a mess than ones self.

I say go Kieran!

In my travels I found someone that is going to live his life for an entire week based on the results of public voting. If anyone knows of the email address for this please post here.

not email I mean URL….. duh…lol

What in the world does this “show” have to do with a recallable e-mail service?
While we are on the subject, what do you guys think of Bigstring’s e-mail service? This company is a public stock and trades under the symbol BSGC and is sitting around $.79 a s share. Is this publicity stunt going to help its stock? Once again what do you guys think of the e-mail service?

jr, e-mail service still be a main and pop subscribe method untill now a internet does.

This is bringing back memories of the fabled DotComGuy, who back in 2000, legally changed his name to DotComGuy, and lived in a house for a year without leaving, buying everything on the internet and broadcasting the whole thing. Because he was contractually obligated to by his sponsors, he sat watching in horror as the market crashed and all his sponsors began to go under.

the email function is great - its like a condom for your email - practice safe emailing - a great service for the 21st century.

what happens when everyone votes “Kill Yourself”

interesting question. i am sure majority votes on that will not win out - there wont be any rubber necking for that i’m sure. bigstring is a valuable email service that works and makes me feel better knowing i can control my email if i want and recall it at will.

http://www.wired.com/news/cult.....40,00.html

After reviewing the eight minute video on the site, it looks pretty funny. It reminded me of Larry David’s hit HBO series, Curb Your Enthusiasm. This guy Kiernan comes off very funny (Woody Allenish) and I look forward to checking it out.

look at the site looks cool

Wow… this guy is in dire need of therapy! Have you read the “Hang-Ups” on the website? Bless his heart. If he actually thinks that the decisions others will “vote” on for him to run is life will be better than what he can do/has done for himself - and he has these intense “hang-ups” as he calls them? The boy is truely touched…and needs a serious hair cut. High and tight would be much better than that mess he has now! Wonder if whether or not he gets a hair cut will be voteable? LOL! Seriously, man, he needs professional help.

ourprisoner.com — “how interesting can it be if he can’t leave the house?” Interesting enough to generate controversy. 07/20 episode featured Vogel getting ’serviced’ on the couch, generating complaints to the FCC and the Dept. of Justice.

You were spot on. Not only did it get old, fast….but bloggers and chatters are leaving in droves. Pretty much nothing was as it was supposed to be, and what HAS occured has been as a result of manipulation, not voting. A complete train wreck.

Actually for a chat room it provides an entertaining third party object for chatters to discuss while hanging out, I personally dislike chat rooms “period” but this one seems to be quite different. Just attempting to figure if the deeds are scripted and the drama is real has been rather fun. Participatory TV more or less as you can call and talk to them in the house. Nana did seem to loose it big time which was quite fun so the entertainment is seen just as much in chat room guest reactions as in the prisoner himself. It has been quite entertaining.

As for the BigString recallable email concept, not a bad idea really!

Oh, just so ya know, it was Nana who said she filed the complaints to the FCC and the Dept of Justice. It was such a train wreck she still hasn’t stopped talking about it, I can’t believe that I just happened upon this site and there she is , hahahaha, Hi Nana, how are you doing?, long time no chat!
omg this is too funny. Go Nana Go! (remember to cover your eyes when you browse the internet)