Comments on: Hmmm….No.

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By: Antje

Antje — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:43:45 +0000

Fantastic, does it work? (getting out my checkbook…)

By: elvirs

elvirs — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:54:46 +0000

just look up on technorati for “video aggregating site”, (thats how they describe themselves in the email) and you find that in recent days many bloggers have written about video aggregating website called “ganges”.
and most posts have similar things like no link to the website and use objective side languageÇD

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:18:13 +0000

“I sent to our company pro file…”

Amateur-file it seems….

By: Another Concerned Citizen

Another Concerned Citizen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:32:54 +0000

Heh, Cash-more.. Btw, anybody notice that his subscriber numbers have increased 5x in the past month or so? He is at it again..

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:29:52 +0000

That one’s hardly glowing in its praise, Concerned Citizen. Don’t be so quick to impute wrongdoing.

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:24:18 +0000

ok, a quick search plus another quick search brings me to http://mashable.com/2007/04/09/ganges.

someone has some ’splainin to do.

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:57:10 +0000

It is making the rounds. I got something similar.

Hello Louis,

I was interested to read your Silicon Valley Blog tips on Linked’in. Some of your suggestions have or will be implemented on XXXX. I am the XXXX for XXXX – maybe you would like to join my network and see what you think? It has more of a community aspect (blogs, forums, hubs etc than Linked’in).

XXXX is a business social network with over one million members in Europe and 700k in China thanks to our strategic investment in XXXX

Here is the official blurb:

With XXXX, you will be able to extend, maintain and profit from your business network and the network of other XXXX members to :

- Find clients, suppliers, business partners or colleagues with our powerful multi-criteria search engine,

- Find former classmates and colleagues,

- Become visible with a professional online profile” and even be headhunted or contacted by potential clients and partners,

- Exchange information on hot topics and deepen your knowledge in the forums or hubs or develop a reputation as an expert in an interest area by creating your own “hub”.

So please join as part of my network and benefit from XXXX to accelerate your business and career networking.

Kind regards,

Peter XXXX

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:42:44 +0000

It was fairly easy to figure out. And I think he was serious. I won’t post the name, but trust me it was simple to find – four keywords in Technorati.