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SlappedStupid, Where Fun Exists In Every Post, as I alluded to my last post,

I have another site that will soon be resurrected from the “dead“. Look for it soon!

is now back alive – resurrected from the so called internet domain graveyard. You can pick up the RSS here. Read about how you can submit your own funny SlappedStupid items, and follow the twitter @slappedstupid.

Technically Speaking, enjoy!

I re-opened the Embargo Zone as of late yesterday. I had alluded to this in my last post of another PR release I received, and I have been receiving quite a few lately, most I archive/delete, but some I decide to post. Announcements right before Valentine’s Day such as the WooMe announcement, and the Slacker Radio announcement.

Here is how you can submit your PR, announcement, startup, etc… The first post on there is the cross post from this blog. Be sure to follow ‘the zone on twitter!

Technically Speaking, I have another site that will soon be resurrected from the “dead“. Look for it soon!

I’m going to re-open the EmbargoZone blog-PR site shortly. But for now, enjoy:

Friendgiftr First to Turn Multiple Social Media Sites Into E-commerce 2.0 Platforms

Friendgiftr first and only company to sell popular brand name gift cards through e-commerce storefront to hundreds of millions of social networking site users

Hollywood, CA. (Feb. 16) — E-commerce 2.0 pioneer and rising star Friendgiftr turned multiple social media websites, including Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Ning and Bebo, into commercial marketplaces for the first time with the debut of its new e-commerce storefront application network. Friendgiftr’s one-of-a-kind network is the first and only social media-based online storefront to offer actual purchasable retail and restaurant gift cards to hundreds of millions of social media site users.

Friendgiftr features the nation’s largest collection of gift cards for sale from a single source, with over 120 leading brand names like Gap, Dominos Pizza, Pottery Barn, Starbuck’s, Chili’s, Red Lobster, Regal Cinemas, Barnes & Noble, Applebee’s, Crate & Barrel, Marriott, P.F. Chang’s, Dell, Macy’s, Sephora, L.L. Bean, Banana Republic, and Overstock.com, among others. Through the Friendgiftr application, social media site users can now send gift cards in amounts from $10 to $100 to anyone in their network.

“Introducing our network of gift card storefronts across numerous social networking sites is a game-changing step forward in the commercialization of social media,” commented Rob Carpenter, Friendgiftr CEO. “It’s also a cornerstone of our unique business model. We partner with the companies whose gift cards we sell, which keeps our operating costs minimal, and unlike most web-based start-ups, we have multiple viable revenue streams, including commissions from cards we sell through a growing number of storefronts, slotting fees, advertisements and affiliate marketing programs.”

Another aspect of its unique model is that Friendgiftr is the only gift card merchant to allow card recipients to exchange the card given to them for a card they prefer from any of the merchants Friendgiftr offers, at no charge, and without the buyer knowing. Recipients can even split the gift card amount across multiple merchants’ cards, to make sure they get the gifts they really want. For example, someone who received a $50 Macy’s card can exchange it for a $25 card for Starbuck’s and a $25 card for Chili’s, or five $10 cards from five different stores.

With the simplest user interface of any online gift card source, Friendgiftr lets social media site users buy and send gift cards in just three simple steps: Â select the card and amount, enter the recipient’s name, email and a personalized message, then pay via Friendgiftr’s secure online payment platform.

About Friendgiftr, Inc.

Friendgiftr is the premier digital storefront company currently offering over 120 of America’s favorite retail and restaurant gift cards through its website and social media sites. Friendgiftr won the grand prize prestigious Henry Kravis Award in venture capital and entrepreneurship, and placed first in a VentureBeat.com technology trends competition held at the prestigious DEMO Conference for the concept of merging social networking and e-commerce. Friendgiftr partners with iCard Systems, a leading supplier of electronic and physical gift cards. Headquartered in Hollywood, CA, Friendgiftr is a Rob Carpenter production.

For Immediate Release: February 17, 2010

Contact: Rob Carpenter, (909) 851-8119, rob@friendgiftr.com

Press Info: Kendall Guimond, (909)262-2120, kendall.guimond@allterrain.net

Technically Speaking, look for the re-opening of EmbargoZone soon.

WooMe has a promotion running for Valentine’s day:

For the price of a tweet, WooMe is giving away an e-guide that will allow SINGLES to embrace Valentine’s Day as much as COUPLES do this year by giving them a play-by-play how-to guide on how to score a threesome.

While the rest of the world is focused on glorifying COUPLES this Valentine’s Day, WooMe is highlighting the benefits of being SINGLE by bringing you a how-to guide for a “taboo” practice generally accepted for SINGLES but not for COUPLES (well OK, that’s debatable). Hopefully our guide will allow SINGLES to embrace Valentine’s Day as much as COUPLES do this year! Check out the guide HERE

Valentine’s Day is typically considered a celebration of relationships, love, romance and monogamy throughout the world. COUPLES spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars proving to loved ones, themselves and the world exactly how much they care about their significant others, often showering them with gifts, chocolate, flowers, candy hearts, stuffed animals, overpriced sparkly rocks and cars with giant novelty bows. Unfortunately for SINGLES, Valentine’s Day is yet another reminder of society’s emphasis on relationships and its implicit scorn of the “single lifestyle” which can include dating, partying, casual non-committed relationships or simply enjoying life with a Japanese full-size body pillow.

As a site dedicated to helping people meet other people through LIVE video webcam chat for either long lasting relationships or casual friendships, WooMe.com believes both COUPLES and SINGLES should enjoy Valentine’s Day.

About WooMe

WooMe is the world’s largest in browser voice and video chat site. WooMe users meet live in timed sessions via webcam. Users can simply find a speed session that interest them, join and meet five people in five minutes. WooMe is easy, fast and free, allowing users to meet enw people around any shared interest for fun, too hook up, or for pure entertainment.

Founded in 2006, WooMe is an international company with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. Investors of the company include: Index Ventures, Atomico Ventures (founded by Niklas Zennstrom and JanusFriis, founders of Skype) and Mangrove Capital Partners. For more information, please visit http://woome.com.

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@vlectronica on twitter
http://woome.com/vlectronica

WooMe on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/woome
WooMe on twitter: http://twitter.com/woome
WooMe Blog! http://blog.woome.com

Technically Speaking, wondering if I should fire back up the EmbargoZone?

UPDATE: I have FIVE (5) 3 month Slacker’s premium service “Radio Plus” subscriptions to giveaway. If you want one, ping me via DM with your e-mail address!

Received this notice today about a giveaway from Slacker Radio DJs. Here is the deal:

With Valentine’s Day coming I wanted to let you know that Slacker Radio DJs have created a collection of stations that you can listen to on the web or your Palm, iPhone, Android or BlackBerry smartphone. As always with Slacker, if you like a song “heart” it and it will play more often, and if you don’t like it, “ban” it and it will never play again.

Here are a few of the highlighted stations:
Love Songs - http://slacker.com/r/q4Yf
Rock Ballads – http://slacker.com/r/5Kyb
Country Love – http://slacker.com/r/HgZM
Broken Heart – http://slacker.com/r/5Ky5
Metropolitan Mood – http://slacker.com/r/q4Y5

Slacker allows anyone to quickly “save the moment” by playing romantic music wether they are in a restaurant or at home. Also, with Slacker, in a matter of minutes, you can create a custom station based on any artist or number of artists you like and then share that station with the one you love.

Technically Speaking, the person that dropped me this information may have possible giveaway information for Slacker’s premium service “Radio Plus”. Check back later!

Probably because they didn’t put the two commercial actors in a Colts and Saints jersey! Right? Right??? Please tell me this is 2010 and not 1910.

Originally seen here and on this very cool new user submits the story site called iSpotAStory out of NYC (met the brains behind this site when I lived there, glad to see she is really pushing it hard these days!).

CBS rejects ManCrunch.com Superbowl ad.

Technically Speaking, I thought this was America 2010, apparently hate, discrimination, and homophobia all run wild no matter what the news media tells you, even $2.6 million isn’t going to make this commercial air on Super Bowl Sunday!

MyContextualAds has an easy way for you to add a few bucks to your paypal account with their “Twist & Tweet” contest. You just have to tweet like I did here and here.

To participate in this contest, all you need to do is include the #mycontextualads tag in any tweet on Twitter. You can be creative with your tweet or re-tweet our message, it’s entirely upto you!
Don’t forget to follow @mycontextualads to find out if you’ve won!

You can tweet #mycontextualads as often as you like. Each of these tweets will be eligible and the winners chosen will be the top four highest tweeters! It’s as simple as that!

But please, no bots or automated scripts please! This is purely meant for fun and lets keep it that way!

Rules:
1. This competition is offered by Zytes Technologies Inc. (“Zytes”) and is open to anyone with a Twitter account who is at least 16 years of age. Employees and agents of Zytes and/or its affiliated companies and family members of such employees are not eligible to enter.
2. The competition starts on Dec 22nd 2009 and will continue till February 14th 2010
3. To enter the competition you must send out a tweet from your own Twitter account and include “#mycontextualads” in your message. The rest of the message is up to you, and you are welcome to retweet our competition tweet URL. Or just say whatever you feel like. And you don’t have to be a user of MyContextualAds to enter, so no purchase is required.
4. You can tweet as many times as you like (though entries using automated tweets will be disqualified).
5. Winners will be chosen at the end of the contest. Winners will be announced after the close of the contest from the MyContextualAds Twitter account and official blog.
6. 4 grand prizes will be available, one each for US $25
7. The prize money would be sent to the winner’s PayPal account – no other payment mechanisms would be entertained
8. Entrants’ personal details will be used by Zytes strictly in accordance with Zytes’s privacy policy.
9. Neither Zytes nor its affiliated companies shall have any liability for (i) any technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (ii) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the competition; (iii) any malfunction of or damage to the prizes; or (iv) any restrictions or delays imposed by any customs authorities or any import or other taxes of any kind imposed by any taxation authority in respect of the prizes.

Technically Speaking, it’s Friday, why not?

A person I know is selling the following. If you are interested, please contact me for a proper introduction:

1) Ojeez

A social networking system (like Facebook) of enterprise level comprising of profile, search function, blogs, videos, audios, forums application

2) Ecommerce application

State of the art shopping cart system already empowering hundreds of online retail stores.

3) Content management system for websites

An easy to use content management system for managing website page content, publishing, with modules such as FAQ builder, newsletter, dynamic form builder

4) Lead generation system

A marketing/sales CRM type of application that manages contacts, runs campaigns, track results, filter prospects for effective business development

5) Job Portal Application

6) A system like Craigslist

7) MLM backoffice application

Technically Speaking a twitter DM or @ is preferred method of contact. Thanks, and I’ll put you in touch with this person pronto!

Facebook is more like a two faced bitch if you ask me. Awhile ago I use to be part of a small Facebook ad network called Lookery. Well even back then, Facebook’s constant rule changes annoyed the hell out our publishers as well as other ad networks we worked with. They were basically a big fat PITA.

Now one of the so called “rules” – or as I like to say – “it’s my ball, and I’ll take it home whenever I damn well please rules” was you can’t pull user info into a banner ad. Like the ones that were quite annoying, but intriguing nevertheless. The ones that said “Your friend Todd Sawicki is now playing Vampires R Us, you should too!” – those ads. Yes, while rather annoying, they made publishers and advertisers a ton of money.

Well a few minutes ago I logged onto my Facebook account. At the top I saw the below banner.

Facebook banned ad networks from running these type of ads, but now they basically steal the idea and put it into play for their own use – what is more annoying – stealing a great idea or first saying it’s illegal and then stealing it and using it for your own use?!

Technically Speaking, if you trust Facebook to do anything but make a ton of money, you really should look a little deeper at what they do. What they do is all for the benefit of Facebook only. Like any good enterprise company should do I suppose. Just drop the act, no one is buying it. You are not a startup. You are full on corporate American greed at it’s finest. Just re-tooled for the internet and 21st century.

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Yes, even still keep a MySpace page going.

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Technically Speaking, if you can’t find me, you haven’t tried hard enough – because I’m pretty easy to find! If you didn’t get the GeoCities vibe, you missed the boat sometime back in ‘99.