If you need to be reminded, April Fools Day is this Sunday. Last year I created the short-lived merger of Steve Rubel and Jeremy Pepper via PepperRubel PR. The pressure was on for this year though...what could I do as a follow-up?
Well I have had a number of ideas and was beaten to the punch on another....but ultimately I don't have the time to get something done by Sunday. With that said, here are some of the ideas I've been mulling over. Most of them are based upon available domains.
TNN: Twitter News Network (twitternewsnetwork.com)
Create a news site that gets all its news from Twitter. I don't mean real news though....the standard banal stuff that Twitter is famous for. We would also create a video news show with a real anchor reading Twitter headlines, i.e. "We're receiving breaking news out of San Francisco......Chris Messina is back from 45 minutes at the gym......Shocking news out of New York, Steve Rubel is considering not blogging for a day....emergency crews are responding now." The crawl at the bottom of the news show would be a continuous Twitter feed.
Caveman PR (cavemanpr.com)
Mashing up the Geico Cavemen and Un-Frozen Caveman Lawyer from SNL, we would create a PR firm by cavemen, for cavemen. If Phil Hartman were still alive I could see him saying, "You're attempts at controlling the message frighten me. Then these strange blogs and RSS....how do these messages arrive on my computer? Do tiny demons carry them?"
NoLifePR (nolifepr.com)
Forget Second Life and their few million residents, how about the after-life. Name a bigger target audience than the dead? They are also a somewhat captive audience :-) Better yet, every major city in the U.S. has a Bacon's for the dead, they're called obituaries. Seeing the opportunity, we'll create a PR/marketing firm for reaching that huge audience. I see product placements at graves as a huge opportunity.
PayPerMule (paypermule.com)
Building upon the controversy around PayPerPost, I am going to create PayPerMule. Need somebody to transport your drugs across the country or the world? Pay one of our mules as little as $5 and they'll transport it for you. Disclosure is not required and is not suggested.
PayPerPoop (payperpoop.com)
Extending the PPP theme once again. Medical research firms want to know what you're eating and what it's doing to your body, with PayPerPoop you get paid to do what you do every day...poop!
Yesterday afternoon in Orlando Alex Rudloff, Ryan Price and I brainstormed a few other ideas around the PayPer-X format. PayPerDate (aka prostitution), PayPerTweet (paying folks to Twitter), PayPerFriend (I think that exists already). You get the point.
Oh well, I think I have staked my claim to a few ideas. If you want to take any of these and run with them, feel free.












Visitor Comments
Very nice, Josh, although I was kinda hoping for another T-shirt concept (to replace the PR PR shirt I gave Jeremy to sign months ago and haven't gotten back, ah well).
Posted by: Andrea Weckerle | March 29, 2007 3:59 PM
PayPerTiger (paypertiger.com)
Mercenaries that back up your threats for you.
PayPerPlate (payperplate.com)
A restaurant—oh, wait, did the rules specify that the domain has to be available?
WordofMouthGrill (womgrill.com)
Share your lunch with your friends.
I don't know where the food theme came from; I already had lunch...
Posted by: Nathan Gilliatt | March 29, 2007 4:01 PM
TNN sounds ridiculously amazing. If you plan on doing that, lemme know, I'll help out in whatever I can.
Posted by: Judson | March 29, 2007 4:58 PM
here's a scoop, we will be weaving twitter into scriggity next week.
_drew
Posted by: drew olanoff | March 29, 2007 5:06 PM
Dang, I'd love to "anchor" TNN. Heck, I'd even wear something to maximize cleavage. And that's no joke. Well, the cleavage part might be kinda a joke...
Any FTP server where I/we can post a TNN "read?"
Posted by: Grayson | March 30, 2007 9:59 AM
Thanks for the insipration for a twitter hack.
Tveetter: http://iamzed.com/tveetter/
Posted by: Chris | March 30, 2007 3:05 PM