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Astroturfing?
Authored by: LoadStar on Oct 09, '08 01:17:14PM

Admittedly, this is intriguing, and I intend to look into this product a bit closer when I have time to wrap my mind around it.

That said... does anyone feel like there's a bit of astroturfing going on in this post? An anonymous submission, then "codebilly" evangelizing for the product using terminology verbatim from the website? That alone is making me a bit leery of trying this product. If they can't promote their product legitimately, then it's probably not a product worth trying.



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Astroturfing?
Authored by: neill on Oct 09, '08 01:27:03PM

Might be something to that. Whatever this is . . . I doubt it's an actual "virtual Leopard" and there are zippo as far as technical details that I could find on their site. As I said in my other post (and as reported by others) it looks like a virtualized home directory living in the "cloud" . . .and I'm not sure I see any point in that.



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Astroturfing?
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 09, '08 03:07:04PM
Agreed. This is a shill.

Note the surfing-while-intoxicated overuse of exclamation marks in the article and the linked site.

Note "codebilly's" assurance that "we downloaded the source" to check for legal issues. So, is codebilly trying to imply that he works for Apple? I simply don't believe anyone other than Apple or the publishers have any interest in examining the code from a legal perspective.

Then note his pouting defensive comeback to ghay "Really? What is the 3rd option?"

Please, robg, delete this advertisement. Resurrect it as a software news piece, but a "hint" this ain't.

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Astroturfing?
Authored by: neill on Oct 10, '08 05:26:03AM

Ya know . . .if'n I was a cynic I might guess that codebilly is the author and anonymous was just another account he created to get some buzz about his . . .whatever it does. Their site has bupkus on it about technical details and if this thing had been around very long and/or was any good I can't believe that macintouch/macworld/et. al. wouldn't have had some traffic about it.



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