02-07-2006, 04:54 AM
I wonder if Nvidia (a maker of PC graphics cards) followed another company's lead and hired dead peopleÂ
full article: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/06/did..._an_a.html
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full article: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/evil...152874.php
Quote:Nvidia stands accused of hiring online actors to create dozens of personae in online forums, where they won gamers' trust by talking about subjects unrelated to Nvidia's products, and then splurged in an orgy of sock-puppet boosterism of Nvidia's stuff...
full article: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/06/did..._an_a.html
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Quote: I interviewed for a guerilla marketing business in San Francisco that targeted web forums.
  I was told that if I accepted the job, I was to have at LEAST 50 identities on as many forums as I could muster (they wanted 100 eventually), with a goal of 5 posts an hour. The posts had to be well thought out, and the idea was that I was to establish multiple identities with a history on the forums, so that when the timing was right a well written but subtly placed marketing post could be finessed in. And regular visitors would recognize the post as coming from a long time poster.
full article: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/evil...152874.php