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Green Gifts and Facebook Fatigue

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Rob, of Social Signal (among other) fame, emailed me about their first Facebook app. It’s a project for BC Hydro, and has a sunny conservation message:
We’ve created Green Gifts to give Facebook users from B.C. and everywhere else a fun way to keep in touch with each other while spreading the word about energy efficiency […]

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Er, Want to Be My Digg or StumbleUpon Friend?

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I’ve read speculation that on social marketing services like Digg and StumbleUpon, the more ‘friends’ you have, the more juice your account has to promote things you bookmark. I gather Digg recently made some improvements to the ’social’ part of their service. I’ve recently received a number email notifications of friend requests from the service, […]

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A New Kind of Comment Spam

Friday, September 21st, 2007

In the past few weeks, I’ve been receiving a new, particularly insidious kind of comment spam. They’re short, apparently legitimate comments, but posted in a systematic way to popular pages on the site. Here are some examples.
They mostly link to dodgy-looking Russian or eastern European websites or link farms.
The tricky part is that they refer […]

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Additional items in this category:
Vancouver Student Seeks New Media Advisor
Your Audience Has Strangers
Evolving into a Social Network
Mashups, Education Style
Buying and Selling Stuff That Doesn’t Exist
SpamPaint: Art from Comment Spam
What the Heck is This Social Media Stuff?

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