Saturday 23 June, 2007

Me or you?

YouGov's branding seems odd to me. It strikes me that some branding people decided that they wanted to embrace the second person plural, so branded it such. But the people who use the site are, by definition, living life in the first person singular. And as a user, you has a different meaning than was intended by the branding folk. If anything, you for the user could be construed to mean government.

The same could be said of YouTube. And the BBC's email address for sending pictures: yourpics@bbc.co.uk. But not of myspace or my.yahoo.


Posted by dan at 1:15am | Permalink | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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Dan,

This might help to shed some light on the whole 'me or you' thing...

Puppetji vs Myspace vs Youtube

Posted by Jon 7:16am, Saturday 23 June 2007

Don't know what happened to the link in my last comment - the linked address should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4BylxSulg

Posted by Jon 8:41am, Monday 25 June 2007
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