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Want to hear a joke?
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Dot-com ads during televised professional football championships.

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No, not so funny anymore? It's clear that the days of charismatic canine sock puppets and excessive spending on TV ads during major sporting events, at least for web startups, are long gone.

Click Walter to watch 'em all!

And good riddance to them! We know as well as anybody that it's possible to reach a huge audience for next to nothing. As it turns out, there's this place called "The Internet." And on it, there's this web site called "Multiply" where you can share... ah, you know the rest.

So anyway, we set out to prove that great ads don't have to cost millions of dollars, feature celebrities, or have... adequate production values... to be funny. Or memorable. Or most of all, effective. And we've teamed up with a few other dot-com companies (Plaxo, Technorati, meebo, RockYou and Meez, to be precise) who've done the same to say to the world, once and for all... use our services!

At least we think that's what Walter, our lead quality assurance engineer, was saying in our ad. Have a look at it for a laugh -- and perhaps a cringe or two.

The other companies produced some great videos as well; be sure to watch 'em all and check out some of the other services featured. Rate the videos on YouTube. Then come on back to Multiply, because we'll miss you if you're gone too long.

So yes, viva Web 2.0, and all that.
And we'll be keeping our $2.6 million, thanks. :)