{"id":1561,"date":"2005-08-14T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/08\/14\/wikipedia_used.html"},"modified":"2005-08-14T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T18:44:33","slug":"wikipedia_used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/08\/14\/wikipedia_used.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia used for viral marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/08\/13\/bbc_punks_wikipedia_.html\">Boing Boing post<\/a> on using wikipedia for viral marketing.  Of particular interest is a quote from one of their readers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t say who I am, but I do work at a company that uses Wikipedia as a key part of online marketing strategies. That includes planting of viral information in entries, modification of entries to point to new promotional sites or &#8220;leaks&#8221; embedded in entries to test diffusion of information. Wikipedia is just a more transparent version of Myspace as far as some companies are concerned. We love it (evil laugh).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>::cough:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2005\/02\/28\/whos_afraid_of_wikipedia.php\">Clay!<\/a>  Comments???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this Boing Boing post on using wikipedia for viral marketing. Of particular interest is a quote from one of their readers: I can&#8217;t say who I am, but I do work at a company that uses Wikipedia as a key part of online marketing strategies. That includes planting of viral information in entries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software","tag-wikipedia-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}