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  • Created: Aug 13, 2006, 6:16 pm
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People submit original jokes, they get voted on and the best ones appear in a feed and on the website. If Digg can push news to the masses, just think of the audience that genuinely funny material will have. You can filter it by types of humour, adult humour, graphic based jokes, video content and so on. The best text/graphic jokes could be syndicated to newspapers after the submitter has confirmed they own the copyright and the submitter and the site both get a percentage. A book like Brad Templeton's Internet joke book is also an option.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Realising there's no web 2.0 sites that deal in jokes, yet people still pass jokes by email around the office.


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_____No_Mathologist
_____No_Mathologist Posted: August 15, 2006, 12:24 am

Dude, I know of like twenty zillion stand up comedians who would totally use it as a sounding board for material they don't want to try out yet but want to rewrite.

You should add a feature so peeps can rewrite and improve the jokes, Guess it would just be a simply forum tracker changer thing

techguy
techguy Posted: August 19, 2006, 11:29 am

I like the premise of the idea. People love reading good jokes. I think the mature jokes should definitely be filtered for those who don't want to see them.

Also, can you explain more how the model would work? Do you put your entire joke on the site? Do you put a link to the joke on another site? Do you make it an audio site so you can listen(or even video) of the joke? Delivery is often the most important part of jokes.

What if you allow multiple versions of the same joke to be uploaded and people can vote on which delivery is best. This would limit the market, but might be a nice back end feature for budding comedians.

sickanimations
sickanimations Posted: August 23, 2006, 1:15 am

Yes this is great, there's a need for this.

Maybe with this people could find other users with a similar sense of humour and in turn find more jokes that tickle their fancy!
(Maybe even branch off to small-scale social networking)
I'd love that...

Vote +1

JelmerBV
JelmerBV Posted: May 22, 2007, 7:29 am

Cool!

Brenden
Brenden Posted: August 1, 2007, 8:46 pm

Stumble Upon dose this

saigon
saigon Posted: August 2, 2007, 1:01 am

hmmm someone send me to visit a site like this... i;ll be back tom for this ok?

ThrasherC
ThrasherC Posted: August 2, 2007, 8:40 am

http://www.ratejokes.com/

This was the very first hit on a google search that took me about 3 seconds -- please check and see if the idea has been done before submitting it.

saigon
saigon Posted: August 4, 2007, 2:41 pm

Bingo! strike 3 =)

ccozad
ccozad Posted: August 6, 2007, 2:36 am

Yes, this is a joke site, but they don't have a feed or ticker for people's sites like siliconglen suggested. I do however think that this would be a trivial limitation to overcome since they probably already have a big leg up on content.

 

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