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Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

Shaiya — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:42:41 -0000

When I played the game for the first time ,I liked it deeply until present.In this game ,we can use the shaiya money and the shaiya gold .These shaiya money that if we got a upgrading ,maybe we could get a encourage for these shaiya money .But it is not the only way to get these shaiya money,we can also use the RMB to buy shaiya gold.

Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

Kimberly Dawn Wells — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:42:09 -0000

Hi Paul,

We encourage eBay sellers to create lenses on their favorite people and characters to sell Elvis bobbleheads, TMNT Pez dispensers, and Charlie Chaplin movie posters.

Just as fan lenses can be about the person's movie or singing career, they can be about merchandise for collectors!

We're fighting spam from naughty users who hijack lenses, create popups, and publish dozens of lenses with long lists of keywords. As a promotional tool for merchandise, SquidWho is a great way to generate interest about people and characters.

Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

seth godin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:06:44 -0000

Paul,

Comments are always a bad place to have a thoughtful discussion, as it's too easy to read things into posts that aren't there. But here's my best shot.

My definition of spam comes from this page:
http://www.google.com/searc...
I see dozens and dozens of people who agree with me and not one that takes the definition you're using to accuse us with.

Every single commercial page on the Internet has ads on it. Web ads aren't spam. Irrelevant ads are a waste of time. They don't work very well. Adwords, on the other hand, work really well because they're relevant.

The affiliate links on Squidoo have never been called spam before, and that's because they're not. If someone is reading about an author and there's a link to buy her book on Amazon, even the strictest critic wouldn't call that spam.

Sure, there are matters of degree here. I apologize if I'm overreacting, but fighting spam has been a bit of a religion for me for a decade or so.

Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

Paul Montgomery — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:05:34 -0000

Your definition of spam is rather strict, Seth. Spam is also the word used to describe the manufactured marketing pitches that you seem to welcome on Squidoo. People might go to a "search engine" like Squidoo/who expecting to see relevant, original content, but instead they get endless links to Amazon/eBay affiliate ads, interspersed in some cases with pitches for the authors' external sites. I'd call that spam. So does Google, evidently.

Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

seth godin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:38:21 -0000

Hi Paul.

Where's the spam? Randy built a page about Jessica Alba. It's good. If you want to build a better page, you can, and then Randy's page won't be found in the first level of search.

On his good page he points to auctions of stuff about Alba. Why wouldn't someone reading all this other stuff about her want to see the auctions?

Spam is the act of sending unsolicited, impersonal, irrelevant ads to people via some sort of interruption, like a phone call or an email. This isn't spam.

Randy has put a lot of effort into this and other lenses, and people like them.

If he starts emailing his lens to people who don't ask for it, we'll shut him down. But right now, where's the spam?

Re: SquidWho: People Search Built on Squidoo

Paul Montgomery — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:52:06 -0000

You would think that Seth Godin would have learnt from the Squidoo Slap in June. People are already using SquidWho to spam affiliate links:

http://ebaysquidoo.blogspot...