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When Google errs: A cautionary tale of great power

When Google errs: A cautionary tale of great power

By Michael Krigsman on April 27, 2015

Update 4/28/15: Based on comments in response to this post, I did further research into the history of the cxotalk.com domain that I recently purchased. Based on many spam backlinks, there is no doubt this site had a bad history before my purchase. This leads to several conclusions: Before purchasing any domain at auction, be […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged #cxotalk, Bing Webmaster Center, CXO, Google Webmaster Tools, seo, spam

Flout.me is fun, but should be flogged and reported

Flout.me is fun, but should be flogged and reported

By Martijn Linssen on November 25, 2011

I did what I guess most of you did when you saw the first entry of flout.me in your Twitter timeline: frown. Then I saw another one. And another one. And smiled. I clicked the URL, authorised the app, then laughed out loud Looks familiar? Well, there’s more to it than that: Flout is a […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged 1.0, application development, Flout, Klout, social media, spam, trust, twitter

Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams

Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams

By Dan Morrill on September 1, 2011

While I am not overly surprised that spammers have found that Google Plus (indeed any social network) is an awesome place to sell or otherwise try to engage people with their get rich quick, enlarge your anatomy or other scams, … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged E-mail spam, facebook, google, Search engine optimization, social media, Social network, spam, Techwag Basics

Twitter spam - a problem? No. Curation is here

Twitter spam – a problem? No. Curation is here

By Martijn Linssen on July 13, 2011

A few times a day, I get a tweet directed at me from someone I don’t know, who neither offers something related to what I have recently tweeted. The first few times that happened, a few months ago, I clicked the URL and ended up at some site after being redirected via more than a […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Social network, spam, twitter

5 Techniques To Deal With Spam: Open Letter To Twitter

5 Techniques To Deal With Spam: Open Letter To Twitter

By Chirag Mehta on June 15, 2011

I love Twitter, but lately, I am getting annoyed by Twitter spam and I’m not the only one. I don’t want Twitter spam to become email spam. I don’t want to whine about that either, so I spent some time thinking about what Twitter could do to deal with spam. Consider this an open letter […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged iphone, linkedin, Quora, spam, Spambot, twitter

Spammers have been busy but I like the new twist

Spammers have been busy but I like the new twist

By Dan Morrill on March 8, 2011

  Spammers are always busy trying to get their message to you, for what ever it is they are plugging, but I have noticed a new spammer that is doing keyword tagging along the way, making it much easier to find weak websites with no filtering for comments, making it a spammer’s paradise. We always […]

Posted in Security | Tagged blog spam, E-mail filtering, google, List of spammers, spam, twitter, Whois

Enslaving People Since 1967 … And Not Getting Any Smarter

Enslaving People Since 1967 … And Not Getting Any Smarter

By Zoli Erdos on March 8, 2011

I came across your website cloudave.com, and would like to propose a link exchange between your site and AlliedTime.com. Allied Time USA has been offering employee time clocks and time systems since 1967. Ok, so they’ve been enslaving people for over four decades.  If they had the slightest clue about what we do here, they’d […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged alliedtime, handpunch, link exchange, rant, spam, time card | 1 Response

Purchasing influence, followers and popularity

Purchasing influence, followers and popularity

By Dan Morrill on January 9, 2011

Over on Techcrunch they have a message about using Amazon Mechanical Turk to help a person raise their influence, followers, or general popularity. Unfortunately most of the conversation centers on Quora, which is an awesome question answer system (until it exploded in popularity) that gave people an indirect link to people who were actually doing […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Mechanical Turk, buying influence, clicks, education, facebook, links, popularity, Quora, Search engine optimization, seo, spam, twitter

Those Who Can’t Do, Teach. The Hidden Dangers of Email.

Those Who Can’t Do, Teach. The Hidden Dangers of Email.

By Zoli Erdos on August 17, 2010

Oh, the irony.  Communispond, the Agency that excels sending the same horrendously dumb email year by year actually has the ***s to hold a webinar titled: Writing Skills: The Hidden Dangers of Email: Emails are so quick and easy to write – and it’s so simple to hit the Send button. But most of us […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged communication, communispond, email campaign, spam, webinar

There’s PR.   And there’s Dumb PR.  And there’s Even Dumber PR.  And No CRM System Can Save Them.

There’s PR. And there’s Dumb PR. And there’s Even Dumber PR. And No CRM System Can Save Them.

By Zoli Erdos on August 4, 2010

The best CRM system can’t help you if your sales / marketing team is clueless.  Here’s a ridiculous email I’ve just received.  Name removed to protect the (not-so) innocent X. Y. kindly requests a meeting Hi Zoli, In celebrating our 40th anniversary, I’ve been given the privilege to manage the relationship between your organization and […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged communispond, CRM, email campaign, rant, salesforce.com, sap, spam | 1 Response

The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts – Take Two

The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts – Take Two

By Zoli Erdos on May 18, 2010

Some analysts (?) spammers just won’t learn.  I ridiculed this “research report” a few months ago (quoting old post below): The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts The Top 10 Questions The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts Will Answer For You Include: 1. What are the ten deadly sins NOT to commit when working […]

Posted in Just for fun, Marketing | Tagged analysts, humor, industry research, research report, spam

The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts

The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts

By Zoli Erdos on March 3, 2010

Some of my email spam is actually quite entertaining, like this offer for a “research report”: The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts The Top 10 Questions The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts Will Answer For You Include: 1. What are the ten deadly sins NOT to commit when working with an industry analyst […]

Posted in Just for fun, Marketing | Tagged analysts, humor, industry research, research report, spam | 1 Response

ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam

ScanCafe: Great Service, Lousy Spam

By Zoli Erdos on February 19, 2010

That’s yours truly on the left in full glory, albeit a bit scared at a photographer’s studio. Why black-and-white, you may ask?  Well, there was no color photography back in 19xx  (date censured). This formerly black-and-white photo has turned sepia, but that may just be acceptable over 4 decades (oops, I let it slip out), […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews | Tagged business model, digital conversion, digitization, marketing, photo management, photography, scancafe, scanning, spam

Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing

Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing

By Dan Morrill on December 14, 2009

If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming a scourge of Twitter, meaning you will be blocked by some users. As some folks know […]

Posted in General | Tagged education, FriendFeed, Participation, Social network, Social network service, spam, twitter, web 2.0 | 1 Response

Being Upfront Gets Better Results than Trying to Sneak It By

Being Upfront Gets Better Results than Trying to Sneak It By

By Hutch Carpenter on November 23, 2009

I’m generally not tracking the “post ads to your social networks” movement, be it sponsored blog posts or tweeting ads to your followers on Twitter. There is one aspect to it that I think is most important: disclosure. Robert Scoble has a post up, More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising, where he notes that he unfollowed […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged ad-ly, ads, advertising, bank of america, ethics, in-stream, mba, scoble, spam, superfund, twitter

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