techcrunch.com - 11/2/2009
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Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu , the CEO of BlitzLocal , a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing in local search engine marketing for franchises and professional ...
techcrunch.com - 11/2/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Last weekend I wrote about how the big
social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of...
dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough ...
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Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
blog.facebook.com - 10/29/2009
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Starting today, Facebook's privacy policy is available for
your review and comment. This is the next step...
in our ongoing effort to run Facebook in an open and transparent way...
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Improving Transparency Around Privacy
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... among a number of social gaming advertising companies, and this piece from a Facebook advertising specialist who used to run spam operations. ...
Confessions of a Facebook Spammer; Starting Your Own Category
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... a spam scam on the social network. But scams are still endemic on the social network, according to a guest post on TechCrunch. "The underlying premise of all the advertising techniques we've discussed so far is that trickery is profitable," writes Dennis Yu, CEO of BlitzLocal. "Fool them into thinking the new friend request is from Facebook, lie to them that the miracle skin creme is actually free, tell them they'll earn points if they just click this button-which then puts their email address on a list that's resold to the top spammers in the ...
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... Mike Arrington is on a tear with some great posts exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on social networks. ...
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