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August 28, 2007

What Do You Get When You Ask Gmail Fans To Express Email Delivery?

Duncan Riley

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Google asked the question, and found out:

Google received over 1,100 submissions for the collaborative effort.

It reminds me a little bit of Ze Frank’s (what ever happened to him BTW?) Video for Ray project earlier this year. The exercise just goes to prove that tapping into passionate users can deliver; over 1,000 people world wide took time out to video and upload their love of Gmail, with no incentive to do so other than perhaps a 2 second chance of fame. Cheap labor perhaps, but it’s a resource that can and is being tapped.

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  1. Orli Yakuel

    August 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    Wow!!

  2. Deals and Coupons

    August 28th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    Thanks for the laugh! Cool stuff. How come I didn’t hear of this till now?

  3. Yukang Dong

    August 28th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    I wanna join them

  4. Chris

    August 29th, 2007 at 2:32 am

    Nicely done video shows good humor from Gmail fans.

  5. magnusdopus

    August 29th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    Kudos. That is the coolest, most creative non-tech thing I’ve ever seen out of Google. Someone deserves a promotion.

  6. Nick Nogueira

    August 29th, 2007 at 5:05 am

    @5
    Kudos. That is the coolest, most creative non-tech thing I’ve ever seen out of Google. Someone deserves a promotion.

    I agree!!! It’s super cool!! :)

  7. Coleman Foley

    August 29th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    i think it’s a little silly

  8. dave

    August 29th, 2007 at 7:26 am

    hey, why don’t YOU do one of these? it could be people sitting at a desk reading techcrunch, only requirement is that they receive (or hold) a cup of coffee on the left side, take a sip and then pass it to the right?

    i think you have way more tech-savvy readers and it would be HYSTERICAL to get some tech ceo cameos in there!!!

    do it! do it!

  9. Trae Dorn

    August 29th, 2007 at 7:31 am

    As for Ze Frank — he ended Ze Show after exactly one year, which was as long as he’d been planning to do it for in the first place.

  10. john

    August 29th, 2007 at 8:53 am

    once again, every time google lays a fart, techcrunch is there to describe how rosy it smells.

  11. Jason

    August 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am

    Ze’s one-year internship for the League of Awesomeness ended. It’s sort of sad tha the LoA didn’t require him to entertain us for longer.

  12. Derek Scruggs

    August 29th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    @dave - brilliant idea. Sign me up.

    The rumor at SXSW was that Ze Frank was working on a cable TV show

  13. Sheila

    August 29th, 2007 at 11:25 am

    That was so creative…..google has once again shown that they have a fun and creative place to work and be yourself

  14. MainStreetReporter

    August 29th, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Fabulous video

    simply fabulous

  15. Thorson

    August 29th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Sweet Its over! I seen enough funny ppost on youtube to this, great advertising plan

  16. hoorayforduckies

    August 29th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    Ze’s busy doing the b-list tech/porn public speaking circuit. Below, a photo from PearlNecklaceCon:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/i.....760498069/

  17. Ilan

    August 30th, 2007 at 12:10 am

    lol @10 haha

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