Scribd Launches "Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest" - Win a MacBook Air

http://www.scribd.com/contest

by trip • 18 years ago

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mixmax• 18 years ago

Absolute marketing genius - they will get tons of interesting content, and thousands of people linking to it. All for the price of a macbook Air.

aristus• 18 years ago

I disagree. It's a cheap trick. The real aim is to get a bunch of SEO-optimizing people to link like crazy to scribd.com.

humanlever2• 18 years ago

So how is that not marketing genius?

mjnaus2• 18 years ago

Yeah, well... Guess they have good do something to keep those visitors coming...

ComputerGuru• 18 years ago

It's brilliant. Everything from the limitations (real text files that can be indexed) to getting people to link their own stuff from other sites is very well thought-out.

There's a double-incentive for users to get their stuff at the top of Digg, Reddit, etc. First is the MBA they win, and second is the fact that it's _their_ stuff that's getting popular - pure brilliance!

And Scribd's slick licensing clause will make people submit their own, original content under an open source or CC license just for the chance of getting that MBA.

dhotson• 18 years ago

I really love the concept of this contest.. putting all that random crap on your hard drive to good use.

I must admit, I’m a compulsive hoarder of files.. I’m often surprised when I’m browsing through random folders at all the cool stuff I’ve collected over the years and forgotten about.

It’s like digital archeology. :)

jasonbentley• 18 years ago

You should definitely put those files to use in the contest :-)

Scribd Launches "Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest" - Win a MacBook Air

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