Espen André Øverdahl - The Face Gesture

The Face Gesture

Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:21:55 AM

Yesterday's prank was a great success. This might very well be the most successfull stunt ever done by Opera. It's not often that FOXNews or the Los Angeles Times write about a small Norwegian based browser company, but they sure did yesterday. The YouTube video ended up as the most viewed in the "Science & Technology" section (I also heard something about most viewed of the day, but could not find it).

Kudos Aleksander for his superb acting skills and face gestures. He nailed it.

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Comments

Tamil # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:23:47 AM

From http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2945173

Originally posted by giac0mo:

i don't know why but when i try to download the face gesture the site said to me that the server has detected that i already have the it...but that's not true and i cannot activate it.....what can i do???

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thobi # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:28:22 AM

yep, the idea and the video are great

had a lot of visit's on my blog via google and "opera face gestures"

it's every year a pleasure with opera and the 1st of april

congrats! well done!

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:29:30 AM

Found the link for the most viewed of the day. We ended up as #13. Pretty good.

KarenNerak # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:29:45 AM

That's badass! Opera pwns the media!

Excellent job, Aleks!

Tamil # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:33:04 AM

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Found the link for the most viewed of the day. We ended up as #13.

Link to it is there in http://www.youtube.com/user/operasoftware

thobi # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:33:55 AM

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Found the link for the most viewed of the day. We ended up as #13. Pretty good.

but isn't this list about today? and why do people watch the other videos in front?

*hm*

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, April 2, 2009 7:54:31 AM

Why people watch the other videos? Most likely because they have no interest in Opera or April Fool's, or just don't know about it yet?

Tamil: Yeah, we also got a badge on our profile.

Tamil # Thursday, April 2, 2009 8:01:23 AM

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KarenNerak # Thursday, April 2, 2009 8:50:29 AM

No interest in Opera?!

Off with their heads!

Robert Jacobsenrobertj # Thursday, April 2, 2009 9:04:19 AM

Espen, it claims it was #9 - Most Viewed (Today)

http://www.youtube.com/user/operasoftware

Tamil # Thursday, April 2, 2009 9:13:14 AM

and 185,419 views.

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:54:28 AM

Yes, and now it's down to #10 (global). Just passed 200k views.

Angelikiellinidata # Thursday, April 2, 2009 10:58:50 AM

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Many more!!!

How long it took to put the video together?

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:01:07 AM

We spent one day on the video and no budget was involved. I wonder how much M$ spent on their video for April Fools' Day...

KarenNerak # Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:06:23 AM

I think Aleks should have tried these just to see how it'd go over with the masses:

Angelikiellinidata # Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:10:06 AM

Considering to the effect it had,
that was a day well spend!!!

Kudos to all of you
Alek said
"This is the team behind it:
Christopher, Roberto, Tor, Thomas, Nadia, Arnfinn, Kei, Truls(ideamaker), Julie and Espen"

Bravo! You all pwn!!!