There was a flurry of excitement yesterday at the launch of WhoDat, which described itself as “The Facebook of websites” and purported to be launched by Kanye West’s Donda startup. It was basically a Whois lookup, letting people type in a domain name and find out who was the registered owner. Donda is the collective formed by West to brainstorm and launch interesting tech stuff, but this seemed like a strange first product. But no: it’s a great big fake, complete with fake Donda Twitter and Tumblr accounts. It was the work of a group of coders called OKFocus, who admit it “played into a lot of people’s assumptions about Donda”. The internet awaits Kanye’s first actual site or app, still.
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