Aug - 17th
I Finally Figured Out Who Jason Calacanis Reminds Me Of
Posted at 8:32 am | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness, scams
In all of the discussions and posts about Jason Calacanis, whenever and wherever he replied to people calling him on his bullshit, it always had the same tired familiar ring to it. His statements have that tone that all scam artists and con men have utilized throughout the ages, professing their innocence despite the preponderance [...]
May - 14th
GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under Social Media, WTF, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, web design
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]
Mar - 12th
Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too
Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, search engines
By now Google has to be getting more than a little embarrassed about the behavior of Mr. Jason Calacanis and his site, Mahalo.com. Aaron Wall did a very well written piece explaining how Mahalo Makes Black Look White and the spammy techniques they were employing. This isn’t the first time Aaron has blogged about Mahalo [...]
Mar - 11th
Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia
Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams, search engines
/sigh
Ok Jason, we get it, you’re desperate. But stealing content from Wikipedia in order to replace what you deleted? Come on!
I am flipping through Mahalo.com today, just seeing if
Feb - 25th
Scientology Suspended For “Strange Activity”
Posted at 5:01 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, lackofmeds, nerdiness
I don’t know about the rest of you, but for some reason I find this oddly poetic.
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For those who can’t read it, it’s from http://twitter.com/scientology, and states:
Sorry, the profile you were trying to view has been suspended due to strange activity.
Yeah, like that’s a surprise!
Feb - 17th
On Freedom Of Speech And Social Media (A Quick Note To Anonymous Commenters)
Posted at 6:30 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, freedom-of-speech, lackofmeds
I understand that on occasion people like to give fake emails when posting a comment. If you are using your real identity and just paranoid that I am going to spam you (which, by the way, I’m not) and leave a false email address, well… it’s not like I am going to verify it anyways. [...]
Dec - 18th
Facebook / Twitter / Myspace Hacking: How To Keep It From Happening To You
Posted at 4:08 pm | Filed Under Social Media, how-to, nerdiness, scams
Over the past few weeks I have noticed a sharp increase of scammers trying to get my Facebook password, and not too long ago a few people I know actually fell prey to it. Recently there was an outbreak of of similar activity on Twitter, where the attempts were being spread through direct messages, and [...]
Aug - 25th
Quick Poll… Who Here Wants To Bing Jessica Biel?
Posted at 1:27 pm | Filed Under MSN, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines
Today CNN wrote a piece about the “‘Most dangerous’ celebs to search for online”. The article discussed which celebrity searches that were most likely to lead to sites infected with spyware. It was an interesting enough story, but what caught my eye were the two opening sentences:
Be cautious if you plan to Bing Jessica Biel [...]
Jul - 17th
Amazon Confirms: Shortened URL’s *Are* Allowed On Facebook and Twitter
Posted at 4:10 pm | Filed Under Social Media, customer service, how-to
Last week there was some commotion over the fact that it was being reported that Amazon.com was refusing to pay affiliates if they used url shortening services to post affiliate links on social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter. This actually makes no sense from a business perspective, since it would discourage people from [...]
May - 24th
Win A Date With Pedobear? WTF??
Posted at 10:35 pm | Filed Under Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing
I was checking out a link a friend of mine Stumbled on tonight, when I see this ad for what looks like a teen dating site. Like most of the adult version dating sites that you see plastered all over the internet these days, the banner ad featured profile pics of the girls you could [...]
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