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Spymac 3? A Trailer for a Web-site? Huh?

MacNN PowerPC 44 posts Dec 22, 2003 to Jan 16, 2004

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#1 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 14:13 MacNN

Wow, now this is some publicity (and terrible acting)...

http://www.spymac3.com/

#2 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 14:34 MacNN

He needs to go back to making fake iWalk videos.

#3 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 14:53 MacNN

Cool effect at the end. I don't get the video though. What does this have to do with a "website"?

#4 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 15:05 MacNN

Pretty high production values. Cheesy voiceover and a really corny idea. But it will look good in his portfolio...

#5 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 18:00 MacNN

wheeeeeee, well as a longtime spymac member i think it's awesome. For those of you who aren't members or never been there it's hard to explain. Spymac is like a world unto itself. And version 3 will make that even more so... but i can't really reveal the secrets in store.

A trailer for a website? why not, it would have happened eventually

#6 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 18:03 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by crayola:
wheeeeeee, well as a longtime spymac member i think it's awesome. For those of you who aren't members or never been there it's hard to explain. Spymac is like a world unto itself. And version 3 will make that even more so... but i can't really reveal the secrets in store.

A trailer for a website? why not, it would have happened eventually

What the hell is version 3 and why will it be better?

#7 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 18:16 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What the hell is version 3 and why will it be better?

It is higher than version 2. And yeah, we need new iWalk movies.

#8 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 18:32 MacNN

cool.. I like SpyMac.

#9 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 21:06 MacNN

Funny enough, I decided to spite Apple and I got the Pixlet version of the trailer. It plays just fine on a Dual 533 G4. 1GHz G4 or better my ass.

#10 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 - 22:10 MacNN

interestingly enough, i care just as little about that site now as i ever did.

#11 Tue, 23 Dec 2003 - 07:54 MacNN

Now I know who it is that's responding to all those emails.

#12 Tue, 23 Dec 2003 - 12:39 MacNN

Half way through I thought he was goig to break into song. "Mommy..."

#13 Tue, 13 Jan 2004 - 22:05 MacNN

This new version still isn't up yet...I can't wait to see all the hype go down in flames...

#14 Tue, 13 Jan 2004 - 22:20 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by crayola:
wheeeeeee, well as a longtime spymac member i think it's awesome. For those of you who aren't members or never been there it's hard to explain. Spymac is like a world unto itself.

TRANSLATION: SpyMac is for 12-16 year olds.

#15 Tue, 13 Jan 2004 - 23:46 MacNN

Except for the gallery I tend to despise spymac..

#16 Tue, 13 Jan 2004 - 23:52 MacNN

So... wait.. we have rumors about a rumors site now?

Is that kinda like meta-rumoring?

How absurd can we make this, without resorting to cheese?

#17 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 05:48 MacNN

iMyth.

#18 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 05:54 MacNN

bah.. looks cool, can't wait to see what they did!

#19 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 10:27 MacNN

Is it any better with sound? My PC at work doesn't do audio.

Aside from that, I don't get it.

#20 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 11:21 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by york28:
Is it any better with sound? My PC at work doesn't do audio.

Aside from that, I don't get it.

yup, you need sound, there's a whole audio narrative that goes with it.

#21 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 11:26 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by gorickey:
This new version still isn't up yet...I can't wait to see all the hype go down in flames...

January 16th is the either 2nd or 3rd anniversary of SpyMac. With version 3 it can only get better.

#22 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 11:37 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by wdlove:
January 16th is the either 2nd or 3rd anniversary of SpyMac. With version 3 it can only get better.

Well, it would be quite difficult to get worse...

#23 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 14:43 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Turias:
Well, it would be quite difficult to get worse...

It would? The Lounge seems to conquer such task with grace lately...

#24 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 15:15 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by gorickey:
It would? The Lounge seems to conquer such task with grace lately...

This is the sad truth.

#25 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 18:29 MacNN

Wow. What a waste of production values.

#26 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 18:32 MacNN

I use their mail cuz you can use mail.app to get it, but otherwise...
I wish MacNN had email. *sigh*

#27 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 19:16 MacNN

I don;t get it gentlemen

#28 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 19:28 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by gorickey:
It would? The Lounge seems to conquer such task with grace lately...

Yeah, but that's two or three people. They'll get tired an move on. Spymac has a whole army.

#29 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 - 22:08 MacNN

i kinda like it. impressive if you ask me

#30 Thu, 15 Jan 2004 - 10:39 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Stuphalina:
I use their mail cuz you can use mail.app to get it, but otherwise...
I wish MacNN had email. *sigh*

you should participate in the forums and shoutbox. i'm not female but i think we need more active female members over there to help counteract the acne brigade.

#31 Thu, 15 Jan 2004 - 13:55 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by crayola:
you should participate in the forums and shoutbox. i'm not female but i think we need more active female members over there to help counteract the acne brigade.

It would also make Zmai very happy.

Hopefully at this point we only have less that 24 hours for the big introduction!

#32 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:16 MacNN

Has anyone gone to it recently? This whole "anytime now" thing has me p-o'd.

#33 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:21 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Stuphalina:
Has anyone gone to it recently? This whole "anytime now" thing has me p-o'd.

official rumors said 2pm EST. since it's already after that time i think it could be up any minute now

#34 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:24 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by crayola:
official rumors said 2pm EST. since it's already after that time i think it could be up any minute now

LOL.. "official" and "rumors" on on sentence.

okay.. it is now in 11:22am PST.

#35 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:36 MacNN

It's up, and pretty impressive to say the least! Hope they pull it off!

#36 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:45 MacNN

Yeah, I see it, but I can't log on.

#37 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 13:46 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by CIA:
It's up, and pretty impressive to say the least! Hope they pull it off!

You have to be a moderator or admin to view the beta stuff it seems...

#38 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 14:42 MacNN

Ok.. I just logged in.

Well.. it is hard to use and navigate now.

#39 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 14:53 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Kenneth:
Ok.. I just logged in.

Well.. it is hard to use and navigate now.

Yeah, very poor UI I think, way too much white and HUGE icons are distracting; however, the new "free" feature set is absolutely amazing if they can make it work and stable...

#40 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 15:07 MacNN

It's a bit of a mess right now. I figure the powers will work things out during this "Public Beta" period. The new features will be awsome when it all smoothes out though!

Tim

(oh, hi Cray)

#41 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 15:16 MacNN

How do these guys make money? I don't see any ads on their page.

They are talking about hosting this whole thing on 42 dual processor servers and giving everyone 100MB of free storage. Thats a ton of startup costs and then long-term costs.

Are they just going to sell your information when you sign up?

#42 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 15:17 MacNN

I don't get how this is free... didnt the "give away a whole ton of goods and services for free" business model fizzle out in the late 90s?

#43 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 16:42 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by awaspaas:
I don't get how this is free... didnt the "give away a whole ton of goods and services for free" business model fizzle out in the late 90s?

Don't know, don't care...it's free and I won't complain too much about that...

#44 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 - 17:22 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by TimTheEnchanter:
It's a bit of a mess right now. I figure the powers will work things out during this "Public Beta" period. The new features will be awsome when it all smoothes out though!

Tim

(oh, hi Cray)

heya Mr. Enchanting

yeah, i'm trying to get adjusted to the new look, compared to version 2 it seems a bit cluttered, but the new features are amazing, hard to believe they wrote all the code from scratch.