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« Last post by mahesh2k on April 23, 2011, 12:07 AM »Happy B'day. 
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@mahesh2k: WHAT a rage. Awesome. You are completely right: Why not pee on the table if you can. You're anoymous, so you should not leave out any such chance. Well done.1. I'm not anonymous and my name is Mahesh.My address and other info is open to access to mouser and in turn this site.
You are completely right: Why not pee on the table if you can.You're anoymous, so you should not leave out any such chance.You said something about education earlier ? is this a part of customer support/community manager/brand management education ?
It apparently is abused by a few confused and uneducated individuals under the shelter of anonymity.You gotta be kidding me. Using fake profiles to attack competitors, customers and critiques is part of educated and un-confused person's software business ethics ? Attacking developers by saying they're building softwares as hobby is part of YOUR education ?
That's one case. I wouldn't bet on it though.Take another case, you're contributing to opencandy thread, do you see drapps or anyone from their team opening a bounty to shut mouth of anyone opposing opencandy or criticizing their software ? This guy from bartlesmedia did that to wraith, if that's not insulting and aggressive for you then i don't know what else is. Another thing by opening such bounty not only insults DC forum but goes to show that he's interested in making same snarky remarks like OP against customers who they're not satisfied with any of their service. If you think of this as aggressive marketing and want to ignore attacks made on developers who build software similar to phraseexpress then i dont know what to say.
The risk is much greater for a small company or mISV....
I just went back to read it again. I can't see how it's really all that aggressive... huh
There are dozens of utilities made by hobbyists that promise to deliver the one or the other PhraseExpress feature.However, you will quickly experience that if you take a closer look at the actual implementation that it is not as professional and carefully designed as you experienced it with PhraseExpress.I really hope software industry is much better without these type of folks who can't even get along with competition.
Personally, I didn't see anything wrong with BartelsMedia's first post in this thread. When someone starts wailing on you, it's pretty hard to defend yourself without throwing a few punches.If this is his first time with such thread, sure i do agree with you on that one. Considering his way of attacking competitors, users and anyone who wishes to review/criticize phraseexpress, i'm not in position to give him one plus point on any accounts. I'm sure you're not aware of his attacks on directaccess author and their software. On that page, tell me how many reputable software authors jump on public forums by opening fake accounts to defend their product or attack their users with the excuse of brand management ?
Perhaps companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Paypal can afford to ignore attacks because of their size. For all the complaining people do about each of them, they still make millions. For someone like Lady GaGa, the "negative" press is actually positive in that a celebrity exists because of publicity (- or +). For a smaller company like the one that develops PhraseExpress, these kinds of attacks can be much more damaging.
Have you actually read the original posting at all? It's sole intention was to badmouth our company.If i remember correctly then i've followed many threads related to bartles media/phrase express.
You can be lucky that it never happened to you but wouldn't you defend yourself as well if you would find such false public accusations about you?I prefer to respond to accusations made in court case or anything within the windows of law. I don't care what other bloggers/forum members are posting against me or my work. They've freedom of speech and they can do whatever they want with it. There are countless threads on the internet making fun of lady gaga (calling her shemale) or ridiculing some software/blogger/person, i don't see them defending personally by jumping in public forums. I guess those who do that have plenty of time in their hands or taking public forum rants too seriously.
The system needs to be based on the following principals:
A) Open: both with source code and the people. There is no anonymity. When you request help your name, - information about you, and the money you receive (if any) will be public record.
B) Decentralized: no single person makes the decision to award a donation. And likewise, no single person will receive a direct donation.
With these principals, combined with the collective intelligence of a social network, the system has hope of achieving the primary objective.
Rather than using annoying captchas why not have a random general knowledge question from a list.Lists if are limited in number can be easily broken because there are sites which pays users to break captcha for 0.01$/captcha for succesful 50 breaks and 0.001 if there are mistakes. Plus there are softwares like xrummer and scrapebox which are built so effectively that they can create mass accounts to spam on forums, blog comment etc. These softwares attack at the rate 1000 comments per minute or more depending on server strength/software type. Random stupid questions are likely to work but they're limited in number and if humans are cracking captchas for low cost then they're not effective at all.
Hiring based (in part) on GPA is gobsmack stupid because many elite colleges just hand kids grades because Daddy's already paid the tuition.That may be the situation in some colleges in united states and not in some of the reputable colleges/universities in other countries where google hires talent. So this is a bit exaggerated and usually raised by street smart folks/students who are lazy to get wordy degrees and whine against those who get it by wasting educational time parroting or by their talent/money/luck whatever. Some work in IT industry is just clerical work and they need plug-n-work type of crowd(with high GPA, so that they can filter those who are skeptical or resist to do such clerical work) in their company. They're not into recruiting all intelligent crowd for low headache jobs, so recruiting psychology is different here. Companies need sheep-type or more like no-questions-asked type of crowd to work on boring jobs. Google has boring tasks so they use high GPA criteria to get parrots to do work under them by luring them on brand name and money. Some parrots who are creative and good at manipulation get promoted and those who aren't eventually excel in doing boring tasks.
Who says they won't go to Google as an ad partner? It's an obvious choice, and there aren't many others with the reach and level of service they can provide.If anyone gives me choice for using ad software, i'll try my best to branch out of google for that firms ad promotion. After experiencing the practices of google last few months, my observation points me towards increase in facebook ads or microsoft ad center ads. Google is playing evil by showing their own shop results -google books, google ebooks, shops for product queries which kills adwords folks. Why you want to show your ads on search results if google's own results are going top for product queries ? For this reason, atleast some of merchants from abestweb.com are migrating to other systems/networks which are independent of google and are capable of fetching more traffic or conversions.
Interesting...
How about starting a new thread for that question?
(J/K)
if not then consider this as my request for next update :-)First a caveat: That 'more for less' depends on your usage. You pay per year for clouddrive up front, and its tiered, while s3 is usage based and non-tiered.
Thanks wraith.