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Thursday, 24 July 2008 4:23 am

Oztion’s biggest obstacle?

Monday, 21 July 2008  

Oztion, the Aussie alternative to Ebay, have been spending lots of money on radio advertising lately. While appearing to try and cash in on the very bad publicity Ebay have been copping lately, Oztion have been building brand awareness with the phrase:

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Microsoft gives away fake prizes

Monday, 7 July 2008  

I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me “cool prizes”, just to search the web using their struggling search engine.

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Trust the Midas touch?

Monday, 16 June 2008  

I received this “mainsleaze” spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while:

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Dell phishing scam

Monday, 9 June 2008  

I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:

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Microsoft’s cashback and Yahoo

Monday, 2 June 2008  

Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.

With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone’s minds, this might just be Microsoft’s “work with us or we’ll spend as much as we need to bury you” message to Yahoo.


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