Comments on: Six Degrees of Crunchation Contest at CrunchGear.com

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By: g

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:50:27 +0000

Why is everyone calling this a contest? it looks more like a blatant viral marketing of the worst kind.

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It can often be word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it can harness the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.

Unfortunately, the most direct results of this contest is two fold 1) the increases the amount of junk mail in my friends email accounts. 2) a map to my friends that “big brother CrunchGear” can exploit for further marketing.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:28:05 +0000

To be fair to the crunch team Techcrunch reader, they have listened and it has improved…but this better be the last one for a few days crunch team

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:15 +0000

the advertising billboard that is TechCrunch really needs a Flickr-like badge (or Digg-like widget, more exactly) that can cross-promote other TechCrunch goings-on. I’m completely oblivious to things going on in the other Tech sites – the video stuff, the Euro and UK stuff, etc.

I suggest getting rid of one of those useless search buttons on the right nav bar and putting something value and traffic-generating there. actually, that’s it – replace that ‘TechCrunch Network’ box with the streaming widget thing – that would do more for cross-promoting the TechCrunch sites than those static links – none of which I’ve ever visited. I never even noticed that thing over there before. I had to find the ‘archives search’ button one time, and that was painful, but I eventually figured it out.

if you simply must have the static links, then do a YardBarker-like drop-down menu with the TechCrunch Network sites listed.

And while I’m at it, the top nav bar (About, Contact, Index, etc.) seems completely misused. I’m probably not the target audience – that being the advertiser – but maybe I should be the target audience? I think so. For instance, what does ‘Index’ mean? No idea. And who cares about an ‘Archives’ link? Give me a ‘Search’ link instead – of course it’s going to be searching archives – I’m a techie – these things I know.

By: Laurie Clemans

Laurie Clemans — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:54:55 +0000

To get back to the contest, I just don’t see it. Maybe the appeal is a guy thing, deduced from the posts above. A thrill akin to cramming as many people as possible into a phone booth. Or…. a veiled product placement deal. Hmmm.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:36:36 +0000

Nice, 2 posts about pee and turd! Maybe techcrunch should host a ‘My Dad Told Me Long Ago …’ contest.

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By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:14:04 +0000

My Dad told me long ago “You can’t polish a turd!”

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:00:48 +0000

“it’s on like a chicken bone” is supposed to rhype – it’s awn like a chicken bawn, in the vernacular of that one guy on gilligans island and it’s supposed to mean “I am prepared to win/finish this contest and you and your meddling friends will not stop me,” at least on the show. I’m thinking you’re reading a bit too much into this, in general, though.

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:55:21 +0000

so I decided to use the phrase “It’s on like a chicken bone” – abhorent though it is – in order to inform the readership that the contest was in fact on like a chicken bone.

Is “it’s on like a chicken bone” some sort of zen condition that you just have to experience? Otherwise I’m not sure how using the phrase itself in the implied definition helps out.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:41:19 +0000

re: chicken bone – it means we’re continuing the contest. It originally seemed like we didn’t have enough entrants, but now it seems like we have plenty, so I decided to use the phrase “It’s on like a chicken bone” – abhorent though it is – in order to inform the readership that the contest was in fact on like a chicken bone.

By: NeoTechie

NeoTechie — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:38:31 +0000

Web 2.0 has a sense of humor and likes contests. To participate in Web 2.0 we have to relax and enjoy the free stuff we could win. Everyone has to survive so don’t hate the player; rather, hate the game. PLAYA FOR LIFE!

WELCOME TO WEB 2.0!
EMBRACE IT!

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:33:18 +0000

My Dad had told me long ago:, “Life’s gonna rain pee on you from time to time boy. The trick is to dodge the raindrops long enough for the sun to shine again.”

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:32:19 +0000

After googling the internets I’ve found that “It’s on like a chicken bone” is a phrase used by a contestant on 2004’s The Real Gilligan’s Island. I’m not sure if it should be parsed as it is written above as drawing a line in the sand against oppresive forces, or if it should be read in the valley girl way of “It’s on, like, a chicken bone” maybe pertaining to some tasty BBQ sauce from KFC.

Is this some hip phrase used by the kids these days? Am I stuck in squaresville?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:10:15 +0000

You can win a Motorola Q or a really cool phone. For free. This is good stuff.

By: manys

manys — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:09:21 +0000

“Crunchation”? Are there any MBAs involved in this idea?

By: Blake Robinson

Blake Robinson — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:08:30 +0000

The comments in the first thread were legitimate, but it’s sort of ridiculous to think that one can’t skim over a post every so often. It’s a contest that affects our entire network and thus I believe it to be pertinent to TechCrunch, just as it is to CrunchGear.

By: Bob Boydston

Bob Boydston — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:02:08 +0000

Hey TechcrunchReader,

Michael and crew knew there would be remarks such as yours. It’s too predictable.

Without innovation and change, things get old pretty quickly. So, bring it on Michael.

By: TechcrunchReader

TechcrunchReader — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:17:07 +0000

I thought Techcrunch would listen to the comments in the below post:
http://www.tech...gear-this-week/

I come to Techcrunch to read about new web 2.0 startups. Techcrunch normally does a great job with this. However, such posts as these and other posts, such as Google scoring an advertising deal with eBay, in my opinion, only decrease the quality of Techcrunch. Just continue doing what you do best: review new web 2.0 startups. They don’t have to be perfect. Just review something new, not a post promoting a contest at CrunchGear or about Google’s advertising.