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Following its uber-hyped launch this summer, Sean Parker's Airtime, the family-friendly version of Chatroulette, has lost the people's interest, which it never really had in the first place.
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Airtime, the new video chat site from the Napster guys, has been out for a few days now, and we decided to see what it's like. Unfortunately, it seems it's already devolving into a bunch of guys looking for boobs. (But, no penises!)
Today: Hannah Montana is growing up, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning have a disastrous debut, and Octomom will not strip.
At yesterday's launch event for Airtime, Sean Parker noted the Internet has gotten boring, repeating a variation on the same SoMoLo (Silicon Valley speak for social, mobile, local) theme over and over and over again — and then he launched something that looks like the rest of the Internet.
This afternoon Napster creators Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched something that sounds awfully similar to Chatroulette, that randomized video chatting service turned into a hub for exhibitionist men before it was shut down.
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