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Yahoo Answers dominates

Published by Chris | Filed under Internet, Web 2.0 | March 9th, 2007

Techcruch post :Yahoo Answers Add Simple Social Networking Feature

Its good to know that Yahoo Answers is listening to its users and coming up with features that made sense intuitively in the first place. There are a number of guerilla marketing companies out there that are using Yahoo Answers to drive traffic to their website, but sitting on certain RSS feeds which Yahoo Answers provides for free and when a question comes up with the terms they want, they rush to answer it. Once they answer it, and go over a Level 2, they can then vote for best answer and promote their own answers, or create a mob scenario using multiple accounts to vote their answer to the top and vote others down. Well done Yahoo

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Viral Marketer’s Having A Bla.St

Published by Chris | Filed under Reviews, Web 2.0 | February 24th, 2007

After reading about bla.st over at John Chow dot Com, I ran over to the bla.st website to see what all the rambling was about.

Boosting your Bla.st Card
Given that I am cheapo, I opted to go with the free card (free is cool) but the generous guys at bla.st have a promotion running where they will add value to your account simply by providing a link to their site or a review of the site, maybe thats the reason why I am writing this post…not!

First Impressions.
After spending a couple of minutes to sign up and create my image for my card. By the way Signing-up and uploading your card image is a breeze, took me only three minutes to have my account up and running. The site design is very easy to navigate and all in all its a great idea with lots of potential. Seeing that the site is relatively new my card listing is very good, infact I’m listed #1 under gadgets, but eventually my listing will drop as other people opt to pay for their cards and because I’m cheapo!
One Suggestion
As I look through the site, I thought unless you are a frequent reader of a particular site like john Chow blog, it will be difficult to know basis of the site card. Maybe the folks at bla.st should display more information about the site in the pop-up window, which opens up when you scroll over the image cards. So readers will get an idea what the site is all about. Remember I’m not complaining; just imagine when the site has thousands of cards.

Well I’m going to wait to see what traffic having my bla.st Card listed, I mean it didn’t cost me a dime. Post me a comment if you add a card so I can look it up.

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Is Gmail Fetcher Feature that Good?

Published by Chris | Filed under Tech, Web 2.0 | February 11th, 2007

There lots of rumors going around the internet that yahoo and Msn hotmail email accounts can only be accessed via POP with paid accounts. Gmail, fetcher feature was just recently announced by Google, where users will be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts inside gmail inbox. Soon after google release include this comment on their help center page:

“Note that the email accounts you would like to fetch will need to support POP access. Some free email services don’t support POP access at this time.”

What a drag, if this this new feather can’t fetch yahoo or hotmail accounts… Gmail is not perfect after all. If anyone knows differently, please post a comment.

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