Barry likes everybody, right? Not necessarily.

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This is the first clip in world
history to utilize my Audience
Meter technology.
</p>
<p>
Let's give credit where it's
due: the idea was kind of inspired
by Groupon (like every other site
these days).
</p>
<p>
But this is different because it
doesn't involve money, deals, or
anything like that. In fact, it
just involves something we all
have already: a desire to see
something cool that everyone else
is experiencing at the same
time.
</p>
<p>
I don't know if the Audience
Meter will actually work, or not.
I don't know if people will get
a kick out of it or hate it. I don't
know whether it will make my clips
more popular or less popular...
</p>
<p>
But I'm SO ready to find out.
It's taken many days to develop the tech,
and it's time to let it shine.
</p>
<p>
I hope that Audience Meter will
fill a void that web video still
has to this day: the lack of
shared experience.
</p>
<p>
Remember when people used to say
things like, "did you see Friends
last night?" Even for drama and
sitcom shows, people all wanted
to see the latest episode together.
</p>
<p>
But a lot of that disappeared when
it was replaced by the convenience
of constant, free (or cheap) on-demand
video. Why watch my show when it's on,
when I can just Tivo it? Why watch
the latest episode when it'll just
be on Netflix or Hulu soon enough?
</p>
<p>
The magical shared experience of
watching shows as soon as they
aired wasn't caused *just* by word
of mouth. It was also fostered
by an important reality: <em>you
couldn't watch the shows again unless
you wanted to wait several days</em>.
So, we kind of *had* to have the shared
experience. Inconvenient, sometimes, but
definitely cool.
</p>
<p>
But now, you can watch whenever.
So where's the reality? Where's the
limited resource? Where's the scarcity?
</p>
<p>
Audience Meter shows bring back
scarcity. You can't watch them
unless a certain amount of people
join. Without an excited crowd, the
shows don't even exist. It's shared
experience or nothing.
</p>
<p>
Will this change the world?
Maybe.
Let the experiment be made!
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