LOLCats -- Maybe Yours -- to Show Up On Soda Bottles
The Internet phenomenon LOLcats -- silly pictures of people's cats with misspelled captions -- is making the leap to soda promotion. On Tuesday the LOLcats portion of the popular site icanhascheezburger and the Jones Soda Company announced that they are teaming up for a new promotional contest. Pictures submitted to LOLcats can now be entered into the running for a chance to be on a new Jones Soda Company label. Users rate the pictures, and the most popular will be considered for the label of Jones Soda Company's root beer and other flavors.
For those unfamiliar with the LOLcats phenomenon, Wikipedia says "A LOLcat is an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English." While this may sound like something your mother and her friends pass around in e-mails to each other, they're actually pretty addictive, even after at least two years of viral popularity in cyberspace. You can literally lose hours looking at this endless stream of cute pets paired up with funny phrases. There's even a wiki on learning LOLspeak, the official term for the broken english used on the images and the LOLCat Web site.
If you're not a cat lover, rest assure: There are pages for dogs(ihasahotdog.com) and even Political LOLZ, at punditkitchen.com. And while icanhascheezburger.com definitely has the market cornered, it's not alone -- many sites post all sorts of LOLZ, including an imitation of the style using a defunct comic from 1912, by Adam Koford of BoingBoing.
All of this just makes us wonder," is this what they meant by Web 3.0?"
from Webware.com
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