Comments on: SlashGear Google Cr-48 Giveaway WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

By: Tai Yu

Tai Yu — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:15:22 +0000

typo!!! you mean Tai Yu!

By: mykie

mykie — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:54:00 +0000

Must be some kind of mistake…

My name isn’t on that list! :~(

By: Chris Davies

Chris Davies — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:25:44 +0000

I can understand where you’re coming from, John. The issue we face when running giveaways is trying to make them visible to as many people as possible, hence us trying the Facebook route this time.

Yes, it’s partly about raising our profile, but that’s something every site – indeed, every magazine, TV show, book, brownie mix, etc. – is trying to do. If I were playing devil’s advocate I might point out that by making SlashGear a bigger player in the tech blog industry, we’re more likely to get kit like the Cr-48 donated and then give that away to readers.

It’s a dirty old industry, that’s for sure, but no worse than most :)

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:57:07 +0000

Remember, the moral of the story is: sell your soul to Facebook, make a superficial show of support by “fanning” some organization, and you might be justly compensated in what in any other circumstance would be a bribe. Cool, Slashgear. You just became like Engadget. Oh wait, damn, that’s a bad thing…