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Reduce spam from Facebook contests

David — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:39:46 +0000

Posted in Blog

Marketers today are getting smarter with social media and we are starting to see more Facebook integrations. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said with email.

Too many lazy idiot marketers are happy to collect your email addresses when you participate in their contests and then spam you to hell later. Here’s how you can reduce spam from the Facebook contests you participate in.

The screenshot above is from Mitsubishi’s ASX-perience Facebook contest. Like many Facebook contests, you have to install an app to enter.

By default the app will be allowed to send email to your personal email address. This also allows the app developer / marketers to harvest your email address for their spray and pray email marketing later.

The solution? Just click the Change link and choose to only allow the app to email you via an anonymous Facebook email address. Hopefully this will help you reduce the spam you get from marketers on Facebook.

Hide status updates from Facebook apps, not your friends

David — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:40:15 +0000

Posted in Blog

I find it irritating when I log in and see status updates from apps that my friends are using. If you feel the same, here’s how you can hide these updates without blocking your friends. Related posts: Finally! I’ve killed all the Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies on Facebook Related posts:

Finally! I’ve killed all the Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies on Facebook

RetailMeNot – online shopping coupon codes

David — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:53:46 +0000

Posted in Blog

I just found this great website for online shopping coupons. There are so many sites to shop at and lots of the bigger ones provide coupons which can be used for discounts and special offers.

RetailMeNot.com is a directory that keeps track of all these coupons. From now on I’m going to check RetailMeNot out for deals before checking out any online shopping carts.

Flickr Newbie Guide

David — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:45:59 +0000

Posted in Asides

Must get girlfriend to check out this Newbie’s Guide to Flickr by Webware. Otherwise my subscription will be going to waste P

HDTV guide

HDTV guide

David — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:56:38 +0000

Posted in Asides

Despite all his faults, George Ou really knows his HDTVs. Check out this article he wrote: Donâ€™t buy an HDTV without reading this first

GMail delete shortcut

David — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:29:11 +0000

Posted in Asides

The Digital Inspiration blog has discovered Gmail’s secret delete keyboard shortcut. Works in IE, Firefox and Opera. Sweet

Gmail Theater: Why use Gmail?

SmartTAG

David — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:41:49 +0000

Posted in Asides

If your SmartTAG doesn’t register when crossing the first toll on the KL-Seremban highway, you’ll incur a penalty that depletes the amount of remaining credit left on your Touch ‘n Go card. Don’t ask me how I know.

WP2.1 advanced editor

David — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:37:36 +0000

Posted in Blog

WordPress 2.1 adds an extra feature for its much improved visual editor. Just press Shift+Alt+V to show or hide it while in the editor.

Heard about this from Episode 19 of the WordPress Podcast (the easter egg they mentioned).