03 Nov 2007, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in An Aside,Software Humor, 0 Comments

Unintelligible Snideness from Web 2.0 Banter

There were a number of events this past week that were ripe for ridicule. However, what may be a hilarious zinger in one camp is a room deadening flop in another. The fact that nearly every one of these would have to be accompanied by a paragraph of exposition if delivered to my mom is testament on ‘if Plays in Peoria‘ is not the benchmark of comedy gold it once was.

In regards to the announcement that Pownce now as an API:

Are there really that many developers that find Amazon S3 intimidating?

Upon seeing the whos-who lineup of the upcoming NewTeeVee Conference gameshow:

That’s the biggest bunch of superstars that 99% of people have never heard of.

In regards to someone exclaiming that he didn’t get HotOrNot:

How did you skip being a 17-year-old boy?

At Guy Kawasaki’s Salt Lake City talk, explaining why Truemors was the place to load up on date night anecdotes:

So, he spent $25k so single geeks would have something to talk about when they go out? No wonder he’s shilling for traffic.

Upon watching two Twitter followers meet in person for the first time:

Given tiny enough entry field, even a Pol Pot’s inner monologue could be misconstrued as a succinctly witty.

At hearing word of Google’s OpenSocial platform

Somebody just stole Zuckerberg’s sandals.

The Web 2.0/Blogger equivalent to “I’m not touching that with a ten foot pole”:

I’m not even commenting on that with ten-point font.