Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video”

A group of twenty or so tech elite partying 1999-style in Cyprus this last week posted a lip sync video of the Journey song "Don't Stop Believing" a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica Vascellaro, the Wall Street Journal's Silicon Valley beat reporter. Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Timing + Poor Judgment The video was released just as Silicon Valley really began falling apart and the UnParty started in earnest - eBay's 10% layoffs, Yahoo's self destruction, Google's stock nosedive, VC's bunkering down, etc. And more than a few people thought the ostentatious partying was a little, ahem, tasteless in light of the meltdown back home. Now that video has been taken private, which is what it should have been marked as in the first place. But it's too late - the video has spread to YouTube and other sites, and won't be disappearing again. As I said yesterday, fair or not the video video will always be associated with the end of Web 2.0. I'm off to Hawaii myself next week, after a quick trip to London. I may be lip syncing a few songs while sipping fruity rum drinks, but you sure won't be finding them on YouTube.