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The Application Review Problem

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Duncan Riley wrote a post earlier today about Slide posting fake positive reviews on their own application. This has become a standard practice nowadays by companies. This problem happens time and time again when you set up any sort of review system. Even on this blog, I have application review ... Continue reading »

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  • David

    1 year ago

    If Facebook made it easier for developers to make it easy for users to post a review (i.e. providing a fb tag that will lead to a "review this application" popup box, rather than having to link people to the application homepage) - then there would be more legitimate reviews, so the spam and fake reviews would have less impact.
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  • Grant Brown

    1 year ago

    I agree with your idea. That would make it easier and allow for more legitimate reviews rather than spamming.
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  • Lina De Martinez

    1 year ago

    Nick -

    I am thinking it might be interesting to do a follow up article on the comments included in the original article:

    Slide caught posting fake positive reviews for their own app
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/03/slide-caug...


    This is but the tip of the iceberg... and no one seems to understand what is going on REALLY. Starting with information being posted by bloggers - followed by the absolute lack of coverage by traditional media - it is no wonder that users are so clueless at to the real dangers lurking behind these Social Networks.


    What is the New York Times doing research on? Let´s take a look...

    Slide Slides Into Some Cash
    January 18, 2008 - 2:25 pm
    http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/slide-...


    Not enough? Let´s see if this video seems familiar...

    Rich Media, Poor Democracy
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfRXaORNSK8&...
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