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Real or Spoof – You Decide – Google TV *UPDATED SUN AM*
by Allen Stern on January 27th, 2007
Updated: YouTube should pay Mark Erickson »
Google Blogoscoped posted a video today showing a demo of Google TV. Most are calling it a hoax. The video by a "Mark Erickson" of "Infinite Solutions" television show. The videos are great. I posted a couple below including the Google TV video. He suggests that Google has hidden an invite to Google TV inside Gmail. Basically if you do what he says, I am guessing people will send millions of emails to themselves. This might be one of the best hoax'es I have seen in a long time. The video has such a PBS feeling to it making it more believable.
Here is his video about Google TV:
Mark has made a followup video to prove this is not a hoax:
another guy confirms it
These guys did some great work together on fatalfarm.com
The guy who confirmed is in the HOME IMPROVEMENT intro spoof.
Mark Erickson is hilarious in the DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D. intro spoof.
These guys are having a great time at everyone’s expense. Genius! Andy Kaufman would be proud. Internet w/a flavor of Borat.
I’m voting for fake. That music gives it away. You know what it reminds me of? The ‘commercials’ or whatever is playing on the tv’s as you wait to board Star Tours at Disney Land ;)
Not sure.. did you see the updated video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MulSMSJV-U
thanks anonymous!
wow – if this is fake, its the best damn fake ever!
You should check out this guys other videos on Youtube…funny stuff.
i bought a salad bowl today to make the wifi dealy
the video clearly shows that the site is located at tv.google.com, however tv.google.com does not exist in dns, if the service did exist at the very least there would be a DNS entry for it.
I will concede that its of course possible that google has pulled the site. Before people ask, it would be virtually impossible (nearly for something deployed in this manner) to segment dns (return NXDOMAIN to us and a real IP for registered users).
-Adam
change hosts file would work
keeps renewing http://www.googletv.com
If Google TV is a hoax, THEN WHY DOES GOOGLE OWNS http://www.GOOGLETV.COM
Domain Name: GOOGLETV.COM
Registrar: EMARKMONITOR INC. DBA MARKMONITOR
Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 28-jan-2007
Creation Date: 01-mar-2000
Expiration Date: 01-mar-2008
For the dude who is using the domain name ownership as proof. Don’t you think that google is smart enough to have possession of every single domain that contains the word ‘google’? It’s kinda obvious that even if the whole google tv thing is a hoax, that google would still want to own ‘www.googletv.com’.
Do you think this works for Hosted Gmail as well?
Obviously a fake, the google mail image is one individual image, tv.google.com is a non-existent domain and so is googletv.com. But still google should implement this feature; I would imagine who-ever did it was running a fake DNS on their own network, which redirected the domain to a local server. Either all the above is correct, or google has removed all evidence of this.
the domain is registred. here is a image that proves that,sorry it’s on croatian but the main point is that it is registred,.com,.net every single on of them:
http://www.imput.net/preglednik.php?file=/slike/x0U41982.jpg
It works!! Just follow what it says, it took me 51 logins for it to work.
51 times? don’t tell me you were counting them!!
Anyway… this Mark is a GENIUS… notice how all the tech news websites are blogging about him… keep it up!
JAJAJAJ !!! Wath a fake.
the 3rd video doesent prove a thing. if you look well you can see that his user name is gary castle, and if you go the the other 2 videos you see his name on the ccredits. so dont buy that video, hes just working with mark and trying to help him out.
Yep, i’ve been seeing him around on blogs too lately, a real genius
I noticed he said he got an ATI ad because of his email having Tech terms, when quite honestly, that is not his email. It just had Welcome to Gmail in it, and who would put their ACTUAL email in a video that could get popular?
Also,
Why are people “lying” saying it worked????