Strange new spam attack on News.YC

Re:Strange new spam attack on News.YC by andr on Sunday March 30, 2008 @11:58PM (#150720)

Funny, entrecard is one of the companies presenting at the Cambridge Web Innovators Group (http://webinno17.eventbrite.com/) next week. I'm no longer sure if it was a bad thing that we couldn't get a spot to present there.

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Re:Strange new spam attack on News.YC by rms on Monday March 31, 2008 @01:00AM (#150772)

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Entrecard, it's just that referral marketing of any kind attracts the lowest type of people trying to make money on the internet.

It's actually pretty clever. http://entrecard.com/docs/doku.php for anyone curious to read about how it works.

Also some mashable coverage: http://mashable.com/2008/03/28/entrecard/

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Re:Strange new spam attack on News.YC by andr on Monday March 31, 2008 @01:20AM (#150781)

Erm, if I spam 300 blogs a day by "dropping my card" for 3 days in a row, I can buy a Penguin book.

http://entrecard.com/docs/doku.php?id=earning_credits

http://entrecard.com/shop/category/10/

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Re:Strange new spam attack on News.YC by rms on Monday March 31, 2008 @01:24AM (#150783)

We are definitely not the target audience for this site. A lot of internet marketers are from developing countries or kids.

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