It’s no secret that there weren’t many iPads given out ahead of time. Apple is, of course, notorious for their extreme secrecy and the hammer that inevitably comes down on leakers and embargo breakers. They have the press in the hollow of their hand, with the iPad more than ever. Time and Newsweek are competing [...]
Tags: Apple News, Breakers, Cnn, Conflicts Of Interest, Controversial Status, Daniel Lyons, Embargo, Establishments, Extreme Secrecy, Fake Steve Jobs, Ipad, Ipads, Leakers, Mark Potts, Newsweek, Power Balance, Pr Tactics, Reliable Sources, Steve Jobs, Time Apple
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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
If you head over to Hulu right now and start watching a video, you’ll notice that the site has turned on a new 3D feature. At least, it looks like they were trying to — when you click the button, the site instead opens a video marked “Hulu Confidential — For Internal Use Only” (looks like [...]
Tags: 20th Century, Alien Plot, Brains, Comedian, Conspiracy, Fabian Wagmister, Fake Steve Jobs, Goo, Hulu, Journalist, Living Room, Lyons, Minute Documentary, Philo Farnsworth, Steve Jobs, Sums, Television Pioneer, Typo, Ucla Professor, Zombies
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Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It took a year for anyone to figure out that Forbes (now Newsweek) writer Dan Lyons was the guy behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Now, a couple of years later, the blog is still going strong. And it remains very, very funny.
Now Lyons’ success in writing about Steve Jobs may lead directly to [...]
Tags: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Fake Steve Jobs, Fear, Forbes, Lyons, Newsweek, Parody, People, Personality, Pilot, Puppet Show, Seinfeld, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Titans, Tom Rhodes, Tv Series, Writing Jobs, Writing The Script
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Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The rumor circulating around Silicon Valley yesterday: Walt Mosspuppet, the foul-mouthed and funny puppet version of the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, is actually the brainchild of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs. Lyons, says the rumor, actually writes the scripts for all of the videos, and Brian Hogg acts them out with the [...]
Tags: Brainchild, Brian Hogg, Dan Lyons, Fake Steve Jobs, Funny, Mossberg, Newsweek, Puppet, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Truth, Videos, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, Writing Scripts
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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments