A 17 year old named Eric Calisto is about to learn a valuable lesson in dealing with disappointment. He’s asking Google to use a logo that he created on their site on December 2, his birthday, and he’s urging people to call, email and fax Google with their support.
Not going to happen.
But he may make a few dollars on those ads.
I doubt they would force him him to take it down. It’s an original idea and google is a pretty open company. I kinda hope they do it just because he’s the first to ask.
I hope so too. But just to give them a better incentive, I think someone should dare Larry Page or Sergey Brin on http://www.Dare2Give.com.
It’s a perfect dare for this site. People pledge there small donations and the dare-ee (in this case Larry or Sergey) gets to choose the charity that gets the funds (if and when he meets the challenge).
This reply is a bit self serving (as I am the owner of the site, but it is with good intentions none the less…)
Judd
Self-promotion? On a TechCrunch comment? WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?
Can’t blame an industrious kid for trying! hehe. It’s cool you colored up the CB widget all custom for him! :)
Atleast he could have come up with a decent looking logo.
Its not all that bad a logo. Its silly cool and a little flintstonish. I like it.
Just a small correction, but it says that he’s 18 on his website.
he says 17 in his email. I’m not sure I care.
He said he’s turning 18. Consider yourself correct already.
You’ve been punk’d. Its a stunt by Pud for his AdBrite company.
Care to elaborate on why Google will deny him? The image is pretty terrible, and GOOG would be opening a door for horrendous amts of further requests. Do you have any opinion on this? I’m sorry I just enjoy TC’s expert insights.
My only feasible circumstance: Google honors his wish by taking his amateur work and improving upon it. It’s not hideous, but it’s extremely unpolished.
yeah, I’m saving up my insights for a different post.
What a waste of your time this post must have been then.
In general, I roll my eyes whenever people say “slow news day.” Because, typically, that translates to “you’ve posted something I don’t care about, and as your reader, I must therefor represent the other several thousand, who all naturally agree with anything I say.”
But today wasn’t a slow news day! Stuff happened. And I’m sort of wondering why you wrote this post, since it seems to be about something *YOU* don’t care about?
Because my own snarkyness amuses me.
Good luck with that, homie.
lol @ crunchbase widget logo
they should keep it like that :D
Thinking the same thing…
Hahaha. Well done.
Crunchbase has a few good easter eggs, seems like those dev interns need to be yelled at more HENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNRYYY
If the right person sees this, you never know. Good luck kid. Everyone needs their 15 minutes!
Dude. This guy has the same birthday as me. I hope that he doesn’t go befouling the names of all us December 2nd-ers by doing something stupid…
Oh wait…
Too late.
“If you write a story about this on your website, I will give you FREE advertising space on this site ASAP!”
I hope you don’t mind I pretend to work for TechCrunch and ask him to put a blocker ad on the front page that forces the user to read this TC article before continuing to his website.
Yeah kid. I’m in the process of forcing for to create and name the “Daniel Fucking Hung and hot Swedish Ford S10 Fuckyeah Edition” I’ll keep you posted on the progress!!
Which ads? Those are GoDaddy ads. He won’t make a dime on this.
I think you mean, “GoDaddy may make a few bucks on those ads.” It looks like he’s hosted on their free service, so those text ads are from (for?) GoDaddy.
They might ask him to take it down since he has ads running, but its running on his own domain so probably not. When I did Gmail4Troops.com all Google asked was that I didn’t run any ads (which of course I didn’t care to) and they let me be.
This reminds me that “I am better than your kids”.
http://www.theb...t/c.cgi?u=irule
A classic! I challenge you to read this without laughing.
is he looking to give folks a seizure with that bloody awful logo
he is using hotmail!!!!! No google… dont!!!
And you blogged about this because? Seriously you’re just helping the guy. I don’t know what else to say. Some posts on TechCrunch are just ridiculous.
Still, it’s pretty funny.
exactly. weekend soon.
Honestly, I think he might have had a chance with a few changes.
* He needs to be 10 yrs old or younger
* Gmail address and not hotmail
* Social bookmarking icons on his site
* “Do they put their users first?”, “I will send you an autograph from me”, “Let’s see if this can actually work!”, “I will give you FREE advertising space” – Remove all of that junk, it just makes you look like you’re craving attention
But seriously, if a 5yr old designed a logo, and a proper site was setup, I could see it taking off on digg, reddit etc, and google might actually recognize it. In this case though, it’ll never happen.
Hahaha…yeah good one :P
I would be more than happy to spread the word – except the logo looks like the title screen for a Super Nintendo game. It just needs to fall down from the top of the page and bounce a few times.
Totally. Super Mario World, anyone?
actually i wouldn’t surprise if they will do it…
i mean i wouldn’t be surprised…
Not worth giving him the attention. I was thinking about writing about this as well in a really short post, but reading some of the comments I’ve changed my mind.
This could have been done so much better, so I don’t think he really tried very hard.
Thats funny that someone changed the Google’s logo on CrunchBase though.
If it were a kid from Make-A-Wish I think they would definitely do it but this is just stupid. Make his birthday wish come true? Seriously? All he wants is for his name to make it around the blogosphere and congrats, he did it.
Next.
This story is probably faked. At least it’s not about the Google logo.
I can’t believe you guys are enabling this moron.
-1 brownie point.
The logo reminds me of Super Mario Bros 3, and for that it made me smile :)
We have to appreciate the boy for his trying of Google logo whether Google accepts this Log or not that is secondary ,he is already become famous with this try .
Omg he seriously believed my email. I even made absolutely certain to put in stuff that would give away the sarcasm. He’s putting the TC logo on his site now.
His site probably contains the script fragmentation attack, and all you poor suckers that visted his site have been hacked, courtesy of Uncle Fester and TechCrunch!
You can read more about the script fragmentation attack: http://tinyurl.com/5mt7xs
I don’t see the reason why he’s doing it, except for the bragging rights.
The logo is pretty horrible and Google care too much abut their image to let this happen.
However, if this does happen – poor Googlers! It’s a strong precedent…
wtf is that logo
its shitty
How does Michael know about this?
If you are going to ask Google to use your logo shouldn’t you at least put some time in to design one? Looks like something I see on a overpass.
support spammer locator dude.
DonationLocator.com – givers
Google would never waste their time entertaining this… unlike say, Techcrunch.
Well, it looks like the traffic went straight to this head and the site is filling up with more ads every minute. Does he not realize social networking traffic doesn’t convert into ad clicks, and by tomorrow his traffic is going to be on a spiral downwards? Thanks to ads, his chances of getting on digg or google are now completely zero. He had a decent idea, but it just went out the window.
Man this is promising
Hardly a diplomatic choice of advertiser
He wants Google to use his logo for one day and he is using AdBrite on his website???!!! :D :D :D
I want too – please Google on 06.16 ! and my girlfriend on 02.06, and my sister 11.09 ! please Google do this for us !
He made it to TC front page!! :-P
ericcallisto rulz! lolz!
icanhazfrontpaje!!
The logo is ugly.
Another crappy article by Michael… wtf where do you come up with this shit. JESUS F%CKING CHRIST MICHAEL wake up… was there no paris hilton hottie or other sex story to write about (what you normally do when your brain is offline) so you come with that crap? What do you think how many of your readers give a flying f&cking shit…
Besides you’ve been punked. Its a stunt by Pud for his Adbrite company.
So please do your f&cking research.. before posting this…
WTF MICHAEL get your act together, seriously!!!
it doesnt even have ads on the site that i see, care to explain?
also, i dont understand why it doesnt have a chance of working.
the logo isnt that bad.
What if this is really an SEO? You just gave him a link, and all that PR will give links. You don’t really know if there is really a kid, or that it was his idea in the first place.
Many comments here seem to support the value of stupidity… This guy’s request, IF it is for real, reminds me of my 11 year old nephew’s insistence on borrowing my car.
It ain’t happening, and it is not “OK” that he is asking for it. [Why not, why not?? --Please, give me a break]
Its not going to happen but if it did that would be pretty cool. But out of respect for Google he should have made a better logo to give himself a chance.
Got Techcrunch to cover it, didn’t he?
Stupid idea. Nice way to get covered. He has to follow up with something else to keep getting hits. In any case, the logo is terrible.