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Wal-Mart Social Networking Website fails. $50 to the best joke!

Posted in Business, Humor, Technology by User ImageDouglas Karr at 3:29 pm

SmileyI didn’t even know they were trying! Wal-Mart failed at building a Social Networking site for Kool Kidz.

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I’d like to make this an open post because there are far too many jokes here. How about this? Best joke on why Wal-Mart’s social networking website failed (and perhaps beyond to the internet in general) gets $50 deposited in their Paypal account. We’ll stop at 101 jokes and everyone is allowed to put in a single joke. I will not post any jokes that are offensive (unless they are simply offensive to Wal-Mart).

Me first:

1. Because they couldn’t coax any $6.00/hr developers to work on it.

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Comment by no imageRick Cockrum (SezWho)
2006-10-04 16:06:16

It’s kind of tough to market to kool kidz when they’re all at the mall.
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Comment by no imageEaston Ellsworth (SezWho)
2006-10-04 16:54:58

Thanks to a typo, Wal-Mart’s email pitch begged all A-list bloggers for “promotional HELL” instead of “promotional HELP!”
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Comment by no imageMartin Weiss (SezWho)
2006-10-04 18:16:45

3. Because.
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Comment by no imageRoy (SezWho)
2006-10-04 20:50:18

The 82 year old Walmart Greeter/Webmaster kept falling asleep.
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Comment by no imageAde (SezWho)
2006-10-04 21:21:33

Because Wal-Mart is too big to fit through the series of tubes.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes)

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Comment by no imageStephen Coley (SezWho)
2006-10-04 23:07:32

“It seems that Goodwill bought out all of the skilled web developers in the area: causing own social networking project to come to a complete halt. The good news, as always, is that our very own ‘Day of the Week Underwear’ has remained our top selling product for another consecutive 10 years…” - Walton
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Comment by no imageMartin Weiss (SezWho)
2006-10-05 12:10:13

Oops, my feedback got truncated. (Honey, they shrunk my blog).

3. Because a company that makes its money by destroying communities, cannot really expect making money from building communities.

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