If you haven’t been following the tech news in the past 24 hours, you might not be aware of News Corporation and NBC Universal’s joint project to create a “YouTube killer” online video service where they will showcase their programming. The announcement seems like so much bluster and so little substance, especially when they haven’t even given the project a name — not an interim code name. The word on the ‘net is that Google has their own internal codename for the joint venture: “Clown Co.”.
The other tech sites are a bit too high-minded and not pop culture-savvy enough to crack wise about the name “Clown Co.”, but over at Global Nerdy (a tech news blog that I share with my good buddy George), we’re willing to go where they fear to tread. That, and we were just dying to use a reference to the band “Insane Clown Posse”:
(Hey! Other tech new sites! Feel free to use this image — just credit “Global Nerdy”.)
We’ll be commenting all day on Clown Co. over at Global Nerdy. So far, here are our posts on the topic:
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