Monday, April 16, 2012

More Billion-Dollar Social Media Start-Ups

 “Facebook Buys Instagram for 1 Billion,” was the headline readers of Eveyln M. Rusli’s  Dealbook column started their week by reading on Monday afternoon. Brian McFadden who draws The Strip which appears in the Sunday Review section of the Times runs the equivalent of an old fashioned meat grinder, the kind your grandmother used, to make chopped liver. McFadden took aim at one of last week’s top stories and by the following Sunday had masticated and regurgitated the Dealbook in a panel entitled “More Billion-Dollar Social Media Start-Ups,” (NYT, 4/15/12) McFadden’s suggestions included “Chore-Sourcer,” which “‘Tom Sawyers’ your contacts into doing your work for you,” “Slackify” which “randomly adds items to your timeline to make it seem like you have the time to goof around online,” and “Pocket Intervention,” which “tracks the number of bars you visit, auto-detects drunks dials and texts, then initiates an intervention.” The panels ended with a check made out to Brian McFadden by Mark Zuckerberg for One Billion for “cool ideas!” Here are some other possible apps that Zuckerberg might want to consider. “Finger Giver,” “which automatically gives the bird to your whole friend list once a day and twice on holidays,” “Locked Up,”  “an alternative to linked in for inmates in state and federal penitentiaries ,” “Your Tube,” “which makes sure to remind you when you are running out of toothpaste,” “Therapressed,” “now currently the most popular application used by depressed therapists” and finally “James Cameronist,” “the hugely popular application for those who experience jealousy of the Australian maker of blockbuster movies who also happens to be the most intrepid explorer in the history of mankind.” Each of these programs is available at the current market price of one billion and may be purchased by sending a check in this amount to The Screaming Pope.

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