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Zango Caught in Lies About MySpace?
An anonymous reader writes to mention that Zango's still under suspicion for problems on MySpace. ZDNet has the story, discussing rumours of multiple accounts, paid Zango hawkers, and mass emailings. From the article: "Boyd posted some choice snippets from the email, like this: 'Zango is fairly new with myspace sites and it took me some time to see what works and what doesn't ... more profitably, *go to a bunch of your friends* who have popular profiles and pay them (it's up to you so much. One of my partners said 5$..maybe offer to split the money with them?) to put a zango video into their profile through your site. This will give you hundreds of extra installs a day (this probably works even better than having them on your actual site).'"
Caught in a web of their own lies, like common politicians.
Seems to me it's up to MySpace to either condone this sort of thing or ban users for it, never mind what the weasels at Zango do or say.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I know these marketing execs seem stupid, but think about it. They wanted people to install their adware, and the ideal audience is one who is:
-a frequent web user
-not exactly computer savy
-able to live with pop-up ads and flashing colors 24/7
-unaware of the consequences of clicking yes to a dialog
sounds a lot like the typical myspace user doesn't it?
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i still have no idea what the hell your talking about
Your a tool! The text was quoted from the article... Would you like /. editors to start fixing external articles as well?
I still have no idea what the heck Zango is.