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Mike Coins "The Prillo Effect"

6 Responses (Add) | Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 at 9:48pm

It's true. I do this all the time:

You remember Beetlejuice don't you? The stupid, yet mildly entertaining movie that spawned a very lame cartoon show and tons of crappy toys. In the movie you could make Michael Keaton, who played Beetlejuice appear, and bug the hell out of you, when you said his name three times in a row. Ironically now, you can say Michael Keaton's name as many times as you want and he thankfully never appears to annoy the hell out of you. (I'm guessing Jack Frost had something to do with that.) Even though Michael Keaton is…um…wherever the hell he is, Chris Pirillo has apparently taken up the task of popping up when people say his name. (Hell, sometimes it doesn't even take saying Chris Pirillo's name three times before he shows up.) I like to call this the “Pirillo Effect.”

It's one thing to leave an anonymous comment in an entry or two, but it's something entirely different when you take the time to say something in your own space. Of course, you have to make sure that your conversation is being tracked by any one of the more proactive searching services (like PubSub). Even if I don't comment, at least I take the time to look.

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Pat Hawks

October 30th, 2007
at 10:40pm

centered blog. He also records videos answering common tech questions, and sometimes he even takes calls while he’s live. In fact, just a couple months ago, he answered a question that I had. Yes, that was really me that called in. Chris Pirillo,if you’re reading this, I’m sorry :)

Mike Flynn

June 1st, 2005
at 7:46pm

Thanks for the mention Chris. The study of the effect took many nights down in the lab, working on the chalk board. (I mainly just scribbled on the board, but to the untrained eye, I looked just like Charlie from Numb3rs.)
I'm just glad to see my hard work on “Internet Effects” specifically, “The Pirillo Effect” given some face-time. I'll try to get some more Internet Science Projects going on my site soon…if I can think of some.

Christopher T.Merrell

June 7th, 2007
at 8:29pm

Chris…just watched your show on VOIP services…EXCELLENT. You get it. Voip is hard to get!

Its similar to when we launced high Speed data connections through Cable Modems and DSL…that was only 7 years ago. Hard to believe, but back then we litterly had to covince america to let go of “AMI” Or America on line and switch to High Speed Data…the first 3 years of service where hard…no on got it… then the masses fianally came an AOL all but went away. Today, only 7 years later there are over 68 million subscribers to High Speed Data lines (both Cable and DSL)

VOIP is the same…we are really good people delievering the next great thing but people are scard or as your girl friend so correctly put it…dont get what might happen if the power goes out! LOL

If you ever have time for a good explination of VOIP or the Robust VOIP services…let me know. We love your show…keep up the great work…you too are at the fore front of where the internet will take us!

Christopher T. Merrell
VOIP.com
Christopher@VOIP.com
561-288-8495

Mac

October 31st, 2007
at 12:18pm

Only you would do something like this. Only you.

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