If you live in the metro, you’ve probably heard of OPUBCO’s newest project, Wimgo. Maybe you’ve received an e-mail about them or you’ve seen one of their advertisements somewhere. There’s only one question. Just what the hell is Wimgo? As a public service, this week The Lost Ogle is digging around Wimgo’s site to try and answer that question.
Today, Wimgo’s Blog.
The Wimgo blog is apparently written by someone named Elizabeth. She likes a lot of things but doesn’t like mayonnaise and cranky people. We’re not sure if she has other responsibilities at OPUBCO, but if not, this is a job for which we would like to apply. Currently the Wimgo blog has a grand total of 15 posts over the course of three months, and nine of those are dedicated to explaining how to use Wimgo’s search engine, which is apparently so complicated it takes nine freaking blog entries to explain it.
Of particular interest to us was Wimgo’s blogroll. Check it out:
It’s a veritable Who’s Who of notable Oklahoma City bloggers. Notice anyone missing, though? Hmmm. Our feelings are hurt, particularly after all the free publicity we’ve given OPUBCO over the past ten months.
Conclusion: The Wimgo blog does not help us answer the question WTF is Wimgo?
Dustbury! They are missing Dustbury.
after some tough searching and Wimgoing (?) i’ve discovered what Wimgo is — Pointless
Many people don’t care for mayonnaise, so the real question should be: How does she feel about Miracle Whip?
elizabeth’s last name is taylor. seriously. she runs marketing for this shin dig
and OPUBCO thanks thelostogle for the free advertising.
I wonder if she likes Chipolte Mayonnaise?
Oh wimgo, the place to watch vidoes of of the “hip” staff at OPUBCO hangs out and what they do. Like we give a flying fuck.
Be sure to watch the one with Amy. She’s bored and clearly has no idea what she is talking about. Like most of the folks at OPUBCO. Yay.
http://www.wimgo.com/project
how bout a tribute to opubco’s hero ron bouwman
http://www.myemospace.com/theomaa/ron.html
Poor Steve! No one understand him! He was always picked last in kickball and now the big bad paper refuses to publish his lunacy-filled thoughts! Does Stevie need a hug?
Ron Bouwman
VP of Editing, OPUBCO
I’m not sure, but I think I may have applied for her job. Before she had it, of course.
Wasn’t OPUBCO aligned with Channel 9 TV website once? Only once! At that time the website was a night mare to navigate. Perhaps if we all had Gaylord’s money it would be user friendly?
“elizabeth’s last name is taylor. seriously. she runs marketing for this shin dig
and OPUBCO thanks thelostogle for the free advertising.”
she needs to find a new job because people are confused about “wimgo”. seriously. who cares
I’ve gone to that site a dozen or so times to give it another shot and every time I leave asking, “What am I supposed to do here?”
“What am I supposed to do here?”
You know, you’re supposed to do all that myspace or facebook stuff the cool kids are doing. Only you’re supposed to do it OPUBCO style.
If by “hip staff” you mean B-Tram and Jennif Carlson, are you sure this is not a place to find out where NOT to go?
Sort of Wimdon’t?
Liz is a sweet girl. She works for a corporate behemoth, but that’s what happens in a small, major league city. Her father, Zach D. Taylor, died of a heart attack on Jan. 4. I worked with the man for nearly nine years and he was a great man. She is a fine, young woman trying to make it through a tough time, in an emerging field. Prolly not a good idea to take shots at her, so let’s get back to making fun of David Glover, Brad Lund and Steven Hunt.
Casady mafia represent
@Lord Gerald
Zing!
Wimgo = Where I’M GOing
Duh!
Next you’ll tell us you don’t know what FUBAR is.
All your base are belong to us.
The Lost Ogle has proven to be a worthy adversary. They single handedly exposed our secret plans of Rural domination in Oklahoma. We shall humor you by exposing our plans of destruction before utterly destroying all those that oppose us.
We plan to collect all bovine gases released in Oklahoma in order to create an ultimate, bovine-powered methane bomb. NewsOk is just a ploy to get Oklahomans to register their info so we can collect and monitor all Oklahomans and single out leftists in the state and to ultimately vaporize all you communist hippies.
All hail The Dark Tower. OPUBCO.
We also take great pleasure throwing kittens off a cliff and clubbing baby seals… except there are no seals in Oklahoma so we make due with prairie dogs. Lawton has tons of prairie dogs.
We are watching you.
wow! i had no idea i was on there. too bad since i don’t really “blog” “anymore” or “really ever.”
also, i’ve been patiently waiting for an invitation to work for TLO for almost a year now, but alas, it looks like i’m going to have to do my real job after all. which, of course, prevents me from blogging, which of course makes me look like a douche since my (former) blog is linked on wimho.
I guess you get a pat on the ass for effort, but it’s like 1,000 of other failed dot coms with the same idea. You’re doing it wrong.
Unlike our Pulitzer Prize-winning Web portal of sin. That shit’s on fire. Oh, wait.
Postscript: “Taylor Made” is her moniker. That wit will take that lass places, ya’ll! Who’s ready to head to Grove, Okla., for the world-famous rattlesnake roundup?
See, Wimgo does work! I just found something. Eff me for doubting it.
When I first heard of the WIMGO concept, I thought it was a stupid idea. After the website has been up for a while, what do I think? It’s still a stupid idea. OPUBCO is portraying it as the “website to end all websites.” I don’t think it’s even close to what they hype it up to be. They want you to one day say “yeah I wimgo’ed it” like we now say “I googled him.” It will never compare to google.
if you’d like to own your own little piece of wimgo history, go here…
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/wimgo
You can even have the logo put on boxer shorts. For a while they had women’s thongs, but they got rid of them.
Uhm…
http://www.thelostogle.com/2008/03/31/for-sale-dave-morris-replica-underwearonly-1399/
Huh. There are some bitter folks up in herr. It’s just a website. Go to it or don’t. I doubt OPUBCO is looking for your approval. They are just trying to provide a service just like any other business. I think it’s handy and harmless. Met some of the wimgo folks out at the Norman Music Festival this weekend and they were nice. No horns or cloven hooves. It was a great show.
Ted is right. What’s your problem with wimgo anyhow? In no way is it trying to compete with google, facebook etc. It is simply trying to make it easier for oklahomans to find out what is going on in oklahoma. I’m not sure what is hard to understand about that. Surely you have something better to talk about than opubco.
Taylor: I think OPUBCO kind of opens itself up to criticism when it publishes self-serving junk like this, where it quotes a claim to be Google, Facebook, etc.
“It’s a lot of things,” said Sue Hale, vice president of community engagement for OPUBCO Communications Group. “It’s MySpace, Google, Facebook, a calendar, all of those things, and things we don’t necessarily know have been invented yet.”
Looks like an old peoples website to me.