What is Spam? Who are Spammers?

In his well known Blog Eric blamed Getingate for spamming his blog becuase our marketing analysts happened to commented twice on a post praising another commenting tool that has known to submit spam comments as has been claimed here and here. It is the sad fact that many of the users of the other commenting tool decided to desert it after a short oppositely to our tool, which is highly popular relatively to its young age.

Our marketing analyst did not mean to submit 2 identical comments to the blog. It happened just like I am sure it happened to the rest of us, by accident. Of course, that minor detail didn't bother Eric who was quick to judge-and-execute our dedicated marketing analyst and blamed US for spamming his blog!

While this childish argument may sound fascinating for 3 yr olds I do not wish to get into that argument.
I apologized for Eric and invited him to use Getingate's tool, which as I mentioned does not submit any spam comments.

The borad question remained open. While I see "spam" as illegimiate publication containing trash, nonsense, links, or just text outisde of the context of the original post, Eric sees it as any content praising another tool. I support that Eric perfer one-minded readers who do not argue and chant his name in their mornings, agreeing with him on every post. These beliefs may belong to the Web 1.0 age but they have no place today.
It is unfortunate that the term "spam" received such a broad interpetation and disguised the strategy of using spam by our competitors while targetting us. Nontheless, these things happen and it is best to apologize as soon as possible when people are hurt, such as happened with Eric, and I am still sorry for that as none of us meant to hurt him. Unfortunatelly, even my sincere apology has been submitted twice for whatever reason and I can only pray to my personal gods that Eric will not consider this as "spam."

Good night.
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Social Web commenting - Free tool for websites

Getingate's Social Web Commenting Tool is a FREE build-in commenting tool for websites. The tool was designed to increase the site income, traffic, and exposure in social networks. The tool was developed in a Web 3.0 approach in terms of interfacing with social networks and it is completely free. In other words, it was DESIGNED to promote the website further than any other commenting system in use.

You can see the tool used here http://sites.google.com/site/emmawatsonbirthday/

Lately we have announced a website commenting competition to promote the use of commenting tools on
websites: http://www.getingate.com/competition.aspx

Compared to other commenting tools, like Disquss, Getingate's tool has a simple installation of a few lines of code that are should be copied to your web page, the user interface is very simple and friendly, and most importantly, website owners can advertise their website on any other website that uses the system (and allows advertising). We worked very hard to make a tool that all web admins would love. The tool allows you to be in full control of your comments and users and it's free.

so try it now!
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Collaborative blogs - where are they today?

In recent years the blogosphere has seen the emergence of many new collaborative blogs, each accepting contributions from a group of bloggers, usually, well established ones. These supposedly trend used to be more popular in the past years and was usually common among professional blogs (biology/medicine/others). The main motive for joining such a blog is the pressures of maintaining a popular individual blog for an extended period of time. These can become too great, leading the successful blogger to, naturally, tend towards a lower pressure collaborative effort. However, despite of this very natural reason, the fact is that collaborative blogs are just not as common as one would expect. Are bloggers less stressed these days than they used to be? not at all. One reason might be using multiple blogging tools or multiple platforms. Another reason might be the rising popularity of aggregating sites, that publish the contents of several bloggers and become a collaborative blogs per say. Whatever the reason may be, I hope to see more of such blogs in the future.

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