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[Trailhead?] What Is Elephant
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notgordian
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 		[Trailhead?] What Is Elephant
I received a tip yesterday that something might be going on at http://www.whatiselephant.com/ -- the page is a signup created by LaunchRock (a new service I've seen brief mentions of on the twittersphere).

Upon entering my contact information, I received the following message:

Quote:
Thanks for playing along!
You have embarked on a journey that lasts as long and goes as deep as you choose.
What is elephant? We don't know exactly. All we know is its something much larger than you or I. It is the moment you decided what career you would follow. It is the thrill you get from breaking the rules. It is the realization that the forest remains silent when your'e not there to hear that tree fall.
With your help we will discover what elephant is together.

Please keep on sharing with your friends via Facebook, Twitter or email (make sure to use your referral link: REFERRAL LINK REMOVED).

You can see how many friends have signed up by entering your email again.

- Elephant
@whatiselephant


The elephant signature was the link to a Vimeo video, and @whatiselephant indicates the name of the related twitter account.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:03 am
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Rabadash
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 		Oh God that site is tripy. Ill put in my email and see what I can find

Ill create some emails to see if I can get the next "clue"

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:25 am
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n_i_c_k
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 		Weird. I like the video. The background image is a still of the video (or a graphic created using the same technique as the video). It's labelled with RGB colour codes in certain parts. Odd.

Registered my email on the site and I got this:

Quote:
Thanks for playing along!
You have embarked on a journey that lasts as long and goes as deep as you choose.
What is elephant? We don't know exactly. All we know is its something much larger than you or I. It is the moment you decided what career you would follow. It is the thrill you get from breaking the rules. It is the realization that the forest remains silent when your'e not there to hear that tree fall.
With your help we will discover what elephant is together.

Please keep on sharing with your friends via Facebook, Twitter or email (make sure to use your referral link: http://whatiselephant.com/gxfm5).

You can see how many friends have signed up by entering your email again.

- Elephant
@whatiselephant


If anyone wants to follow the link and reigster to see if I get another email, please feel free.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:00 am
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diegohcarmonacr
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 		Done ^^ inscribed mine and 3 other e-mail addresses. Is anyone else having problems accesing twitter right now?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:16 pm
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Rabadash
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 		Okay, I signed up 3 emails via my referral, haven't gotten anything new yet

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:52 pm
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rasputin
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 		I thought I was being really smart by posting with the whole video and twitter thing... I just needed to read the first post...None the less, it will be interesting to see what comes of this.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:04 pm
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Rich Reder
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 		Possible significance of the title
The title of this reminded me of the old fable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

And perhaps that story is not so off-topic as it may first appear... thinking the game/experience may be different for each player, depending upon what they input...

PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:40 pm
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Aki
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Joined: 30 Jul 2008
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 		This looks interesting. Very Happy

There's a new tweet, and it's the header on the video on the front page:

Quote:
S01AT1


PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:13 am
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n_i_c_k
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 		If you watch the video, the title is the same as that tweet.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:36 am
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thebruce
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 		interesting... lurkylurk
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:00 am
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n_i_c_k
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 		Hmmm. There's a tweet:

Quote:
@elangora @shaherose @joesat @coryboatright @j_rich You may be interested in what we just launched! Now playing: http://t.co/EFvWGPs #launch


These are all people the seem to run tech blogs. Except for @coryboatright who runs a real estate blog.

Odd.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:14 am
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Rabadash
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 		Signed up 7 people, no link yet. Im just putting in random emails now, including gabenSPLATvalvesoftware.com. Gonna see if I can get anything

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:34 pm
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diegohcarmonacr
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 		Just got the 9th e-mail signed in, still nothing... So, are we gonna meet Charlie???

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:21 pm
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Knucklehead
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 		Saturday
03/12/2011
diegohcarmonacr wrote:
Just got the 9th e-mail signed in, still nothing... So, are we gonna meet Charlie???


yes, the twelfth apparently. and it's not charlie sheen.

it feels like an ad

PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:25 pm
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n_i_c_k
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 		Hmm, so I've filled in three different email addresses from into my link because I don't think anyone used mine (I have no friends Crying or Very sad ). Charlie. Some sort of AI? Is Charlie an elephant? I'm kind of excited.

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