I've seen a billion internet hoaxes, and so far I'd have to say I believe (or at least am not yet convinced it's a hoax).
1-This isn't some random guy on the internet, he has a site with a history of being useful.
2-Google has a history of releasing beta versions of their products in interesting ways to cut down on everyone going there at once.
3-From what I've seen in the video, the GUI is consistent with google GUI and didn't appear to have any obvious fakery. If he really wanted to impress us, he would have said all networks were available, not just three.
So, until someone says it's a hoax, I'm going to tend to believe it (but I'm going to stop logging in and out of gmail - bah!)
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I love the audacity of this guy.
Posted by: ironic1 | July 9, 2007 10:04 AM
hoooooax
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/28/google-tv-an-elaborate-prank/
Posted by: St.G | July 9, 2007 03:36 PM
Naaa. No way! Come on! Really?!
Posted by: vicarious | July 9, 2007 03:57 PM
I've seen a billion internet hoaxes, and so far I'd have to say I believe (or at least am not yet convinced it's a hoax).
1-This isn't some random guy on the internet, he has a site with a history of being useful.
2-Google has a history of releasing beta versions of their products in interesting ways to cut down on everyone going there at once.
3-From what I've seen in the video, the GUI is consistent with google GUI and didn't appear to have any obvious fakery. If he really wanted to impress us, he would have said all networks were available, not just three.
So, until someone says it's a hoax, I'm going to tend to believe it (but I'm going to stop logging in and out of gmail - bah!)
Posted by: Bad Cat! | July 9, 2007 04:03 PM
Um, hate to say this BadCat, but TOTAL PRANK! Look at the other stuff he's done, like this.
Posted by: ironic1 | July 9, 2007 06:25 PM
Sorry. I had a sarcasm spaz attack.
Posted by: vicarious | July 9, 2007 06:53 PM
Hmmm, yep - I've been p0wn3d!
Posted by: Bad Cat! | July 10, 2007 07:00 PM
Gotta hurt.
Posted by: Ca-chee | July 11, 2007 12:26 AM