MeeVee is a fairly old internet company in the scope of things. They're not quite Web 2.0 because they don't count on you to make all the content, but they sure are failing like a Web 2.0 company.

TechCrunch's hard-hitting investigative journalism tells us that they just laid off 20% of their staff: mostly useless marketing-tards who just take up space and yammer on about things that are bleeding obvious to chimpanzees so that they can try to pass off their college years of drinking and not going to class as legitimate educations. You know, people like my buddy Steve Rubel.

An All New Ow! My Balls!

Yeah, I really need a service to tell me the exact schedule I need to follow to waste my night away in front of the TV. In theory it's a marginally useful idea: I tell it the shows that I like, and it will recommend other things to me that I might like. Let's take it for a spin. I checked off these shows that I like:

• The Sopranos (for obvious reasons)
• Mythbusters (because they blow shit up and pass it off as science)
• Dirty Jobs (because my wife hates it)
• Seinfeld (I mean seriously folks? What's the deal with airline food?)
• Chappelle's Show (all 6 episodes of it)

From this, you could think they could recommend something to me. No. FAIL. It recommends to me THE EXACT SAME SHOWS I SAID I LIKED. Fuck. Are you even trying?

Now I Know Everyone's Shit's A Little Emotional Right Now

Alright, so the recommendation fails. Like that's a big surprise. Without that, it's an online TV Guide. It turns out that Yahoo has had the same thing for years, and it's got less advertising spam. On top of that, why the fuck does someone need to use the internet in order to use their TV?

In a last ditch effort to be relevant, MeeVee added some online video viewing doodad. It will link you to clips of your favorite shows on YouTube and shit. Wow, what a triumph of human engineering. After shitcanning 20% of the dead wood in the company, they're allegedly "working on moving the product forward". In non-marketard speak, that means "we're ripping as much scrap metal out of the building so we can make it look like we have revenue". Holy shit, I just invented a new word: marketard. There isn't a ruler long enough to measure how awesome I am.

I get to ride by this failure factory every morning. I'll start carrying a camera with me so I can videotape it when they burn the building down to collect on the insurance money. Don't worry, I'll put it on YouTube.