Free is not the Magic Word anymore
Greetings nikewong,
My name is Horatio Yee. Have you heard about www.adexcel.com? Seems like they are providing Nuffnang like services. Thought it might be interesting. Signup is totally ‘FREE’. Pass to friends if this is useful. Thanks.
Thank you for your time. Hope this message doesn’t sound spammish.
Regards and all the best,
Horatio Yee
这两年来收到很多封自荐和合作要求的信，越来越麻木了。刚刚收到以上这封自荐email，觉得有必要拿出来讨论。我觉得Horatio Yee在该信里犯了好几个错误。
第一，我没听说过adexcel，所以根本不需要问我是否听过来自取其辱。
第二点就是提及到对手的名字——Nuffnang。这只会让我以为你只是在抄袭Nuffnang的运作模式，一点新意也没有，让我更加没兴趣去看了。
第三点就是强调申请帐号是免费的。我想说的是或许在十年前很管用，二话不说我可能就会开户口，但在现在这个大多东西都免费的网络，你强调免费申请成为会员已经是无效的了。免费成为会员在现在的网络世界是你本身最基本要做到的东西，它已经不能成为你的特别之处了，你需要多想点法子来让自己与别人不同。
4 则回应 to “Free is not the Magic Word anymore”
By Elru on Jul 9, 2009 | Reply
哇，被你这么一说，我看那Horatio Yee已经完全名誉扫地了。做人别这么绝嘛。要放出来，好歹也给他一个匿名呀。现在你叫他怎么做人呢？真可怜那家伙。
还有，好歹也试了AdExcel才下评论呀。或许它真的不错呢？很多事情都不能只看外表。人家也是看得起你才会邀请你嘛。你就算不想回礼，也不需要把人家踩成这个样子呀。
By Elru on Jul 9, 2009 | Reply
Hey by the way, I’m still very attracted to the word free. I only download a software if it’s free, so for me it’s still an attraction.
By the way, “free” is one of the word that is googled most in the world.
By 黄德峻 on Jul 9, 2009 | Reply
Elru：
我这里只是个小blog，在这里把原贴贴出来比较好，免得被人认为歪曲真相。写的纯粹是个人意见，没那么大影响力让人名誉扫地，就如你所说还是有些人会被’free’影响，可能有些人看到它写的讯息后，就会尝试使用。我认为有人不论人们是讲它好或坏，最重要的是有人要讲到它，就如nuffnang之类的，很多一开始评论也不是很好，不过一路做下来越混越好。在这里也衷心希望Horatio能看看我的个人意见，可能可以帮助到它写得更好一点。
By Elru on Jul 10, 2009 | Reply
Yeah well… let’s pray that Horatio knows how to read Mandarin then. So have you checked out AdExcel? What do you think about it? Out of curiosity I clicked on it, and it seems quite different from Nuffnang, IMHO. It allows users to comment on the ads, for instance. That’s new to me, LOL