For the past two or three days an idiot startup with the Yuwie, which claims to pay users to use its social network has popped up. Their marketing plan is absolutely brilliant. It essentially entails sending annoying trackbacks that have nothing to do with the entry to blogs with the website or a related website that talks about the site. Look you idiots, if you want to use trackbacks this way the community will ensure that your website can never send trackbacks again. Spamming is not a way to promote your site. Get this through to your thick skulls.

It seems that someone got the idea from scalpers that it's a good idea to try to scalp ad-words. Buy up all the popular ad-words then resell them at an inflated cost; or that's my read on what this guy is doing. Yes Game Theory says it works, so do the sweaty, shady guys hanging outside concerts -- it's no big discovery.

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