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Here Comes Another Bubble!

by Kara Swisher
Posted on December 4, 2007 at 12:14 AM PT

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Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius.

And so, as the song asks, we sure will blog about it (plus it uses our interview with Facebook investor Peter Thiel, also below, at the start).

In fact, it’s an honor to, as these guys get the Web 2.0 mania better than pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley.

And a warning to all: The video was so hysterical, it apparently made Robert Scoble spew Diet Coke through his nose. That’s, of course, not such a funny image.

And here is our original Thiel interview:

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  • Hysterical.
  • Scoble wasn't joking. That was fing hilarious. Get's my vote for best vid of 2007!
  • Scoble is always deadly serious about his Diet Coke nose-spewing!
  • I saw this last night on a different blog and thought exactly the same thing - *pure genius* - and proceeded to let everyone I know in the Bay Area about the video!
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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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