"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Mr Dvorak wonders if Microsoft is today using reverse-dirty-tricks
> | to promote the Xbox 360: pay people to create Web sites that slam the
> | gaming computer in order to provoke a barrage of defenders.
Presumably, these paid reverse-trolls would make poor arguments filled
with logical fallacy, so that it would be easy to point out how they are
wrong about the 360...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing
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> Notable examples of viral marketing
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> | # ilovebees.com - viral marketing for Halo 2
> | # Hotmail, promoted largely by links at the bottoms of emails sent by
> | its users, is the classic viral marketing example
> | # Microsoft's Origami Project campaign
> | # Microsoft's Xbox 360 campaign, called OurColony
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Note that viral marketting is in no way a "bad thing" or a "dirty trick"
(IMHO, anyway). If you encourage your friends to tell their friends about
Linux and FOSS, you're participating in viral marketing.
- Oliver
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