It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc.
Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer changes to loading.
I wrote that headline and actually didn't realize people might think it was an email template for emails to users specifically. Maybe accidental linkbait, but not intended.
Also which images are being loaded to no end? I've never experienced that but it sounds like something I should definitely fix..
How does the killer feature actually work? I know you can lookup the internet service provider's hostname from the user's IP address, but then how do you reliably go from that to a clean "Ogilvy & Mather" string?
I was at this talk. Patrick's talk was very insightful, especially this section.
It is such a simple hack, but very well executed and though through. No wonder he did so well !
I think instead of bluffing him,if he send email something like this , it will bring more user .
Dear xyz,
I really like you tweets (or whatever) and genuinely wanted to offer recent feature "who googled you" (here mention your powerful feature) . We think it is only for you.
Your sidebar is going crazy on me. I see like ten php warnings and one fatal error, all with php paths and a stack trace. You shouldn't have those settings on in a production server.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the post and the slides.
The mail was sent to "journalists", not users.
It is nothing new, just the usual social engineering basics that have been covered a gazillion times like sugar coating the recipient's ego, mentioning pseudo-personal things about yourself, etc.
Annoyance warning about visiting that site, it loads and loads and loads some images to no end. Every second or so the mouse pointer changes to loading.