Comments on: Buzz phrases I heard today

By: SolShine7

SolShine7 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:44:10 +0000

I liked Facebook back when it was just for college students. Now it’s all cluttered with those applications.

Good notes!

By: Brodie

Brodie — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:26:42 +0000

Facebook is repackaging the web. It feels so much like AOL cicra 1998, I simply cannot stomach to be there. All those ads. All that fakery. Blech . And let’s simply not talk about the CIA. . . but. . .

By: Facebook as Ready-Made Social Media Marketing Platform : deswalsh.com

Facebook as Ready-Made Social Media Marketing Platform : deswalsh.com — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:53:53 +0000

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By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:42:45 +0000

All of those are plausible buzzwords. Some of them I recognize from elsewhere, a couple appear in your notes. I’m going to guess that Robin Hood marketing is the made-up term, because I’m having a hard time imagining the possible analogy - marketing that robs from the rich to give to the poor? - but gravity marketing might also be the invented term.

Personally, I’ve generally preferred paying a subscription for an ad-free experience - my Yahoo mail is the main exception - but as I understand it most people are willing to put up with / ignore the advertising for a free service.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:45:06 +0000

I would like to wave my favorite incense around and say AMEN to this: “Sometimes, I need to just go running and screaming out into the woods for awhile, and get over myself.” I very much again and often do the same thing.

Thank god for Sacred Groves.

(oh wait! Was that advertising? ;))