Microsoft Pays Bloggers to Tout MS Slogan 339
Stony Stevenson writes "In an effort to inject Microsoft's latest slogan, 'People-ready business', into popular usage (and no doubt raise its Google page rank), Microsoft asked a passel of A List Bloggers to write blurbs on what this meaningless phrase means to them. Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Fred Wilson, Richard MacManus and a handful of others happily agreed to churn out some mush for Microsoft, which it later used in banner ads. What it really meant to these guys was income. Redmond paid the bloggers for every user who clicked through to the PRB microsite. That caused other bloggers, lead by Gawker chief Nick Denton, to rightfully question their ethics. A spitball war has been raging ever since."
Awesome slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing unusual (Score:5, Funny)
Surely the Salshdot crowd has some ideas (Score:5, Funny)
Business ready to fleece the people?
If we're talking Vista, maybe it means business with some people-sized holes where the customers should havebeen inserted?
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
I'm Secretary of State, (Score:2, Funny)
People-driven business means: (Score:5, Funny)
(The BS bingo blurb is courtesy of the DailyWTF)
Re:PRB = Public Relations Bullsh*t (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe that's the People-Related Business they're talking about.
Re:Surely the Salshdot crowd has some ideas (Score:2, Funny)
Collective noun (Score:5, Funny)
I thought the collective noun was "a crock of bloggers".
parent is not a troll...mods wake up (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What if... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Looks like it worked. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yea, it worked. I can totally imagine thousands of Slashdotters storming Microsoft with "damn, get me some of that people-ready business software!".
Truth is Microsoft marketing sucked for nearly 12 years now. They're totally clueless about how to advertise even their good products (such as Office 2007, which is a great piece of software*).
*Microsoft paid me $100 to post this.
Re:Nothing unusual (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Awesome slogan (Score:1, Funny)
(1) Say "People-ready business"
(2)
(3) Profit!!!
Ok, you had to know that was coming...
Re:Easy Way To Counteract That (Score:5, Funny)
(*) $100 dollars have been transferred to your Swiss bank account. Also, it's "drive" not "push".
- Microsoft
Do you want flesh with that? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Awesome slogan (Score:5, Funny)
It wouldn't fly, most people would have been worried about how many have gone there before them, particularly after the whole jail sentence.
Re:Easy Way To Counteract That (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ethics are easy if your wealthy, but.. (Score:1, Funny)
(Captcha: nonsense. How appropriate.)
Re:Nothing unusual (Score:3, Funny)
My heart broke a long time ago.
Torben
Re:Integrity demands crying foul immediately (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy Way To Counteract That (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it turns out that money is our most important asset. People are ninth. Carbon paper is eighth.
/. contributing (Score:3, Funny)
I for one, will not help contribute to this meaningless mentioning of the phrase "people ready business" in slashdot, which is helping microsoft get it's phrase "people ready business" higher up in google's rankings, and into people's heads...
That's all I have to say about that....
ps..... "people ready business"
Re:Easy Way To Counteract That (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy Way To Counteract That (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing unusual (Score:5, Funny)
My post. (Score:4, Funny)
Click here to get to their "post your own story" page. http://peopleready.federatedmedia.net/prpost [federatedmedia.net]
"I knew my business was people-ready the day I dumped all Microsoft products and switched to linux. No more worries about people complaining about viruses in emails or attachments, no more rebooting."
The response page:
" Thanks!
Thanks for posting! We'll give your post a quick once-over and get it up on the site shortly. "
Somehow, I'm skeptical.
Re:Nothing unusual (Score:3, Funny)
And, since I used the preview button, I can't even believe my own comment.
For God's sake, most software IS people-ready! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ethics are easy if your wealthy, but.. (Score:2, Funny)
nice try
They're asking for a Google bomb... (Score:1, Funny)
And feel free to substitute the actual link. I think that