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App.net causes a HooHa with its first Android app
It's a good time for confusingly-named App.net, hot on the heels of smashing its funding goal and cooking up its first terms of service, the paid-Twitter startup now has an Android mobile client. HooHa chief Deniz Veli told The Next Web that he cooked up the software after seeing a "thriving developer community" surrounding the new service -- with many presumably encouraged by Twitter's recent API changes. Like the service itself, the app is only an Alpha release, but you can download it for free at the Play Store, no need to causes a hoo-hah (geddit?).
How to make PR-speak entertaining
Marketing speak, otherwise known as the art of saying as little as possible about your product in as many words as possible, is by its very nature a boring and frustrating language. Imagine having a conversation with someone where 90% of your questions are either skillfully diverted onto a different topic or stopped in their tracks with a cold "no comment". Of course, we can't blame companies for not wanting to reveal their inner-secrets to us and the public (and we don't mind being surprised every now and again) but that doesn't mean we can't spice up our favorite Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo marketing banter. Enter Gizoogle, a free online jive translator. So without further ado, here are three shining examples of PR-speak made good, yo.Peter 'Playa' Moore -- "Then we explained tha Xbox 360 as a liv'n entertainment experience powered by human energy thiznat revolves around you n makes you at tha centa of yo experience n thugz were like, snaps b*tch, 'I git that.'"Phil 'Pizzle' Harrison -- "SCE is unique in hav'n innovative develizzles studios in tha US, Europe n Japan, thizzay have each created numerous global hit titles. By combin'n tha wealth of creativity n mad skillz of games develizzles we can dramatically change tha landscape of computa entertainment, Hollaz to the East Side. I am honored ta be tak'n on thizzat challenge work'n alongside tha bizzle thugz in tha business."Shigeru 'Shiggy' Miyamoto -- "Video games is bad fo' you? That's wizzle they said 'bout rock-n-roll."[Quotes found using ThinkExist. Gizoogle via Rocketboom. Image via Clean Funny.]
