Real Brand Power

[Threeboy]

http://www.threeboy.net/blog/images/posts/pootube.gif Whenever people throw around the term "Household Name (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/household_name)" or "Brand Power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand)" I think of my mom. She doesn't know about Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/), Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/), Digg (http://www.digg.com/) or any other trendy/esoteric web sites (Not to take anything away from those sites, *I* like 'em plenty). She does however know about Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) & YouTube (http://www.youtube.com). That's impressive brand recognition considering she doesn't use the internet, doesn't have a computer and barely uses her cell phone.

Oprah has a YouTube channel. Friggin' Oprah. Nobody one messes with Oprah. Nobody.

[Rolf]

Dr. Phil messes with Oprah. Gets his psych on, and his pants off.

Facebook tries to hide from me.

I left Australia - it wasn't here.
I got to Canada - it was there.
It left Canada.
I got to Australia - the bastard was here.

[Threeboy]

It's explodin' in Canada now - I think 1/3 of Canadians have Facebook.

[Rolf]

Yeah, the 2/3 that don't were probably the tree-logging mountain folk I happened to live with.