OurColony (I love bees #2?) | The Coffeehouse

daSmirnov

Anyone following this?

If you remember the viral marketing that was I Love Bees last year for Halo 2 - this is believed to be Microsoft's new answer for Xbox 2.

Already a bunch of screens have been found on it:

http://www.xbox2portal.com/2005/04/14/Screenshots/project-gotham-racing-3-shots.html

I think everyday a new challenge comes up for the team, if you're lucky you might get a snippet of info out of it.

Anyway I've got a team on the go with it, so if you fancy joining up login with the word 'play' on www.ourcolony.net and join an existing team with the password '30410682'.

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

Well, I just looked up the domain:

whois wrote:
Colony Networks
5220 Fisher Drive
The Colony, TX 75056
US

Domain Name: COLONY.NET

Record updated on 2002-04-02 21:01:46
Record created on 1996-05-19
Record expires on 2008-05-20
Database last updated on 2005-04-15 15:38:36 EST

I don't know, but I find hard to believe that microsoft
started this whole campaign 9 years ago.

On the other hand they could have just bought the domain name.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Stitch 2.0 wrote:
Well, I just looked up the domain:

whois wrote:Colony Networks
5220 Fisher Drive
The Colony, TX 75056
US

Domain Name: COLONY.NET

Record updated on 2002-04-02 21:01:46
Record created on 1996-05-19
Record expires on 2008-05-20
Database last updated on 2005-04-15 15:38:36 EST

I don't know, but I find hard to believe that microsoft
started this whole campaign 9 years ago.

On the other hand they could have just bought the domain name.

"Colony Networks" ?

Perhaps Microsoft bought it off them on a short-term loan or something.

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

I take back everything I said. Wink

Maybe I should have looked up the right domain name (ourcolony.net instead of colony.net)

Here is the right info:

whois wrote:

Registrant:
   U Enzo
   P.O. Box 2774
   Chicago, Illinois 60690
   United States

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: OURCOLONY.NET
      Created on: 04-Feb-05
      Expires on: 04-Feb-06
      Last Updated on: 08-Mar-05

   Administrative Contact:
      Enzo, U  enzo_colony@yahoo.com
      P.O. Box 2774
      Chicago, Illinois 60690
      United States
      (312) 320-4564
   Technical Contact:
      Enzo, U  enzo_colony@yahoo.com
      P.O. Box 2774
      Chicago, Illinois 60690
      United States
      (312) 320-4564

   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS1.DN.NET
      NS2.DN.NET

EDIT: I just did some more research and ound this article stating:

Gamespot wrote:

During his 2005 Game Developers Conference keynote address, Microsoft corporate vice president and chief XNA architect J Allard showed off some of the features that will be part of the next iteration of Xbox Live. One of those features was the "Gamer Profile," an online profile that will feature basic information like a person's Xbox Live tag, stats, gaming achievements, and motto.

The Gamer Profile will also include a picture of the gamer. When Allard demonstrated the Gamer Profile in action, he showed his own profile. Next to his Gamer Tag--"Hiro Protagonist," named after the main character in Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel Snow Crash--was a photo of Allard sporting a green T-shirt. On the front of the T-shirt was a large white ant with a distinctive mark on its abdomen that resembled an "X."
As can be seen in a side-by-side comparison, that same ant is also the emblem of Ourcolony.net, a Web site that appears to reward players of an alternate-reality game with partial pictures of the next-generation Xbox.

Blkbam
Bam, Bam! Bam, Bam Bam!

We covered this already.

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

I know, but what about the shirt comparison?

Maybe U Enzo is an employee at some kind of marketing firm?