Mixed up messes December 15, 2005
Posted by Robin Monks in Google, Gossip, Opera.trackback
The web is full of mixed up messes and messages. Take this story from the highly gossipy techwhack (who might deserve a wack), and the counter story from the countering Opera Watchers.
It demonstrates just how far people will go just to get some publicity. The “I want to get slashdotted” syndrome.
Seen some more examples? Post them here!
umm. the techwhack post is not a news story. its personal opinion from a long term opera user.
> umm. the techwhack post is not a news story.
> its personal opinion from a long term opera
> user.
Perhaps, but it was still a marketing stunt IMHO. Gah, it’s even slashdotted now, even though it’s been countered
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Robin
[...] Remember my post yesterday with the opera->google rumors (1,2)? Well, it looks the the gossip has gone even further. As I predicted, the ““I want to get slashdottedâ€? syndrome” has gone into it’s final stage, the slashdot homepage: patro writes “Opera Watch writes Google is planning to buy the Opera browser. The source of the claim is Pierre Chappaz, the former president of Yahoo Europe. Google obviously can’t buy Firefox, so Opera might be the next possible candidate.” I can’t begin to imagine why. [...]