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great eyes - Christopher Aloi

You know just what they're thinking. - John Mather

Aw what a cutie. Look at those ears! - Lise

Great photo Leo. :) - Daynah

Is he trying to use a computer? - Badam

Heh. he was *caught* using the computer - W. Thomas Leroux

Mucho guilt in the postion of those ears :) - Patrick Jordan

I don't get it. :/ - Mattb4rd

I rated it with one star for aesthetic and because I still dont get it. - Andrew Baron

Why is it soo long? Someone tell me the point to this nonsense please! - Sarah Austin

i liked it - i thought it was funny. - Morgan

@sarah a lot of these high-end commercials use :90 format for the web and limited runs and then cut it down in to :60 and :30 spots - Morgan

Here is a screenshot of the account the commercial was uploaded. It looks like I stubbled upon it just moments after it went live: http://flickr.com/photos... - Andrew Baron

What the.... This is it? Cripes. This is more damaging to their image than anything Apple have put out. - Andrew

hilarious. it's good to see seinfeld. and gates is awesome to let himself be parodied like that. - Ranjit Mathoda

Yes, my man Bill is funny. No, your man Steve is not. That is all. :) - Randy Holloway

I'm a huge Seinfeld fan, but that was pretty weak. - Matt

Buy Apple stock! Jerry, buy me a MacBook...iConJohn - john coffey

I don't get it either. these commercials will be a miss. Seinfeld is so "I love the 90s". - Alan Le

Andrew, you're not missing anything. There's nothing to get. A bunch of silly nonsensicle halabaloo. Microsoft continues to be completely out of touch with, everything. Ad campaign FAIL! - John Reynolds from twhirl

I like Seinfeld. I'm still disgruntled with Microsoft. - Chris Menning

I thought it was funny, too. Effective as far as selling or promoting anything, probably not, but I liked it as a standalone bit. - abacab

Well, that felt uninspired. Amusing, though, but not the right way. - W. Thomas Leroux

I love that's his jail mugshot on the clown card - joly

I dunno. it was fun to watch. I'm not one who can be convinced by anything MS does to switch back so I guess I can just watch and enjoy Seinfeld do his thing. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Um. No. Gates IS NOT to Microsoft as Jobs is to Apple. Seinfeld draws painful attention to that fact. - rzklkng

The company with the best comedians wins? - Jemm

I guess the point is that Microsoft wants to remind general public of themselves and that they can be sort of funny, too ;) Or maybe the idea comes clear after few ads. - Jemm

But was it really funny? I think *most* people think it wasnt funny. And it has only two stars on YouTube. I complied a list of headlines here: http://dembot.com/post... - Andrew Baron

it has a "we're one of you, really.. ignore our fortunes, we're *just* *like* *you*" angle to it. I half expected them to have resurrected Al Bundy for the store. I found the windows 1.0 ad with steve ballmer to be funnier! - alphaxion

Oh dear. 3/10. Must try harder Microsoft. And the out-of-sync audio doesn't reflect that well on your brand. - Mike Coulter

No... not this way. Could be just waste of money but after moment of thinking... it's actually working nicely. While it gets negative attention, that is still good for overall ad campaign since it gets people speaking of it. And more time people spend of talking, more closely they remember it. - Daniel Schildt

@Daniel, since when was it out of fashion or too expensive to get people talking about something good? Putting out crap and expecting people to talk about it because its crap is not a very clever option. I cant imagine that they planned to it that way. - Andrew Baron

You realize that this graph will show a spike in August because of this thread. :-) - Dave Winer

@Dave, no it wont :) - Andrew Baron

ahhh.... the haters Andrew and Dave our out in full force today.... 1. we've set records two of the last three months, 2. all the sites i've ever started (engadget, autoblog, joystiq, etc) have this pattern of rise, plateau, rise, plateau. 3. August will be a record month again (three of past five months record).4. you guys are losers, I'm a winner: http://flickr.com/photos... - Jason Calacanis

Someone hit a nerve today :/ - Percival

Not knowing much about traffic patters, it's notable to me that each of the peaks is higher than the last. If I was looking at this like it was an equity, I would think it was a great time to jump in. - Andrew

just yesterday I was musing on why friendfeed had none of the snarkiness of my favorite CL forum (the parenting forum - full of cyberbullies). Today - snarkiness! How refreshing. Oh, and @Andrew, Mahalo got a hit from me today. To be honest, I had forgotten what their schtick was and went back to take a look. - Laura Norvig

Well, this would be a great discussion if people would stop being childish and making snide remarks. It seems that the only reason this is "controversial" is because Baron brought it up. Would be great is Jason answered as if someone neutral asked the question. It's a good question, and jason has given some good answers...sometimes taking the high road is the way to go. Ugh. - Andru Edwards

They seemed fine to me, Vincent. - Andru Edwards

Today's TechCrunch article is apt: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... The story is different if you search for mahalo instead of mahalo.com: http://www.google.com/trends... - Mark Trapp

Anyone new to the converstaion should be sure and also see the conversation in these other places: http://friendfeed.com/e... and here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Andrew Baron

Don't worry about it Vincent... He deleted a couple of my comments too. This ValleyWag post is a hilarious compilation: http://valleywag.com/5036190... - Jason Carreira

oh snap! - Percival

I wonder if this whole slap fight wasn't cooked up between the 2 of them to generate traffic for Mahalo (bad idea) and Rocketboom (bad execution).... Looking back it seems kind of staged. - Jason Carreira

For the record, Ive been deleting comments from a troll named Vincent and Jascon Carreira who continue to attack me time and time again here. They are not contributing to the converstaion, just leaving comments that are irrational and meant to be hurtful. - Andrew Baron

Interesting thought Jason...the old "worked shoot" - Andru Edwards

BTW Jason Carreira, please do stop with the personal insults. I tried to direct message you to discuss further but you dont allow messaging and dont have any contact info. - Andrew Baron

@Mark, re: techcrunch article, if you look here at just 2008 instead of the whole history you get a better picture of 2008: http://www.google.com/trends... - Andrew Baron

The same graph for Rocketboom looks a bit odd: http://trends.google.com/website... Either way, it's summer, so I'd expect views to be down. - W. Thomas Leroux

Personal insult? Please show me the personal insult? I'm not a hard person to find, a simple search would have found my email address from mailing lists: jcarreira@gmail.com... - Jason Carreira

@Mark, re: techcrunch article, if you look here at just 2008 instead of the whole history you get a better picture of 2008: http://www.google.com/trends... However, as you can see from the report, most of that traffic is coming from Hawaii which makes sence considering the word means hello AND goodbye. Thats why mahalo.com give a better understanding. Agree with Techcrunch re the interpretation of "actual #" but the graph above shows the "trend" which is flat & falling. - Andrew Baron

@Andrew, if you look at the Website Trend for the US, Hawaii isn't even in the top ten traffic sources. Of course it shows up when you do a Search Trend -it is a Hawaiian word after all- but that is precisely why you must look at the Website Trend instead. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Actually, that should've been directed to @Mark, now that I think about it. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Andrew, I wanted to thank you for this bit, even though I'm sorry it had to happen to you personally. I previously was following Jason C because, as you say, he presented himself as somewhat of a mentor to web entrepreneurs who were less experienced than he. I have seen the back and forth between yourself and him today, and have since corrected the issue. And as an added bonus I got to block those two trolls without ever having to find out what they are the hard way. - Aaron Krug

Incidentally, Andrew's original link used Google Trends for Websites, not the traditional Trends for search terms. Based on that data, neither Friendfeed nor Mahalo have come close to crossing the Cheezburger Threshold: http://trends.google.com/website... - Steve Weis