I prefix any email address I give so that it is particular to the company I am contacting - I'm hardly a breakaway revolutionary there. I wrote to Google to ask about future services using the alias google@mydomain.com. The vast majority of spam I now receive is to that alias. I wrote to them to ask them why and funnily enough never heard back from them.
I know that's hardly the end of the world but it's depresing nonetheless.
A quick correction... Lovefilm.com (Online Rentals Ltd) do not operate Amazon.co.uk's DVD rental service. They've grown their own, which is one reason why this revelation is of particular interest to the UK market.
Lovefilm.com do however operate services for Channel 4, Channel 5, Sainsbury's, WHSmith and Lastminute. Those are the ones I know about anyway, there are almost certainly more. I'd agree with you about the service quality though - and they just won the British Video Association's Home Rental Service of the year.
Amazon.co.uk have been operating their service for about 8 months now and must have reached the 55-70,000 subscriber mark. Lovefilm.com are older and have just reached 100,000. So while Lovefilm.com dominate, Amazon are clearly making inroads.
Unless it's a staggering double bluff - release a story on April 1st - get eveyone debating and thinking it's an April Fool and amaze people when it emerges as truth.
How to grab the headlines from Microsoft and Yahoo's attempts to push into the search engine market.
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Is this an example of two wrongs not making a right?
And now the only hit found for "interesting and well constructed points of view" is a blog containing an almost-copy of this post (see parent).
Plagiarism busted.
I prefix any email address I give so that it is particular to the company I am contacting - I'm hardly a breakaway revolutionary there. I wrote to Google to ask about future services using the alias google@mydomain.com. The vast majority of spam I now receive is to that alias. I wrote to them to ask them why and funnily enough never heard back from them.
I know that's hardly the end of the world but it's depresing nonetheless.
A quick correction... Lovefilm.com (Online Rentals Ltd) do not operate Amazon.co.uk's DVD rental service. They've grown their own, which is one reason why this revelation is of particular interest to the UK market.
Lovefilm.com do however operate services for Channel 4, Channel 5, Sainsbury's, WHSmith and Lastminute. Those are the ones I know about anyway, there are almost certainly more. I'd agree with you about the service quality though - and they just won the British Video Association's Home Rental Service of the year.
Amazon.co.uk have been operating their service for about 8 months now and must have reached the 55-70,000 subscriber mark. Lovefilm.com are older and have just reached 100,000. So while Lovefilm.com dominate, Amazon are clearly making inroads.
"To lose one satellite may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness".
I'm sorry - are you taking the piss?
Fantastic... dutch search results - just what I was after too.
Unless it's a staggering double bluff - release a story on April 1st - get eveyone debating and thinking it's an April Fool and amaze people when it emerges as truth.
How to grab the headlines from Microsoft and Yahoo's attempts to push into the search engine market.
How long before a Goggle instant messenger?