2011 April | Open Parenthesis

Monthly archive for April 2011

Spammy spam and the spammers who send it

Published on Tuesday, April 19 2011

I’m really happy that the portable contacts specification exists, and that products like Gmail enable an OAuth connection for the “find your friends already in the network” situation.

However, this has enabled a particularly bad form of spammy spam that I encountered again this week from Shoppybag.com. It starts with a message like this one:

ShoppyBag Spam

It comes from someone you know, claims that person has “tagged you” in a photo, and asks you to sign up to come see it.

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Tags: invite spam, spam, spammers, warning

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Social Commerce Presentation from Magento Imagine Conference

Published on Tuesday, April 5 2011

I shared the slides from my social commerce talk at the Magento Imagine conference earlier, but now the video has been posted:

I’ve also taken the audio from that video and converted the SlideShares slides into a screencast, which syncing the audio to the slides:

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue?

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It’s much more useful this way than just the slides were.

Tags: facebook, Facebook Commerce, fcommerce, Magento, Magento Imagine, Optaros, Social, Social Business, Social Commerce, Social Marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing

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