Hubpages got a rejection from Myspace customer service quoting it as a competitor of myspace which is not true factually
This is one incident that made me laugh at the biggest social network of the planet called MySpace.And this must be quite embarassing for them to be into such a situation.The actual fault lies in their CRM deptt.
Recently,a post on TechCrunch revealed what went behind the curtains with Hubpages,a startup that lets users write articles and earn revenues from their write-ups.Interestingly,hubpages got screwed by myspace customer execs three consecutive times,for quite illogical reasons.
Like every other startup looking for more visitors,Hubpages marketing manager,Ryan Hupfer went ahead with the newly launched MySpace My Ads,a self service ad platform to
The dot com bubble was necessary for the prosperous future of internet. The positive side of dot com bubble was tremendous infrastructural development in a short span of time.
The dot com bubble and its consequent burst-out is well known to most of us.We remember it as an event that crashed the US economy to an all time low.
It all started with companies like Netscape,Yahoo! & Excite and ended with dot coms like Pets & Boo.Few of them survived but most of them got their shutters closed after burning millions of dollars with absolute stupidity.
The worst part was the unexpected behaviour of Angels & Venture Capital firms who literally gambled over hundreds of dot coms and invested big bucks with no logical estimation and business plan.
The rule of 'Get Big Fast' was the only motto of that phase and this rule was the prime motivation behind more than 250 dot-com IPOs in just one year(1999).
The outcome was simply tragic.'Bankrupcy' & 'Shutdown' became a commonly used glossary for dot coms and there was even a dedicated website called FuckedCompany by Philip Kaplan which served as a 'dot-com dead pool' at that time.
But still,the dot com bubble was necessary for the prosperous future of internet
we have always witnessed Yahoo! being symbolised as 'Y!' (and not as 'Y'). That means,it must have been a well thought idea of integrating exclamation mark("!") with their brand name "Yahoo" to portrait their brand,being different from others.
But that's not the case.It was,rather a forced decision to add an exclamation mark to the name "Yahoo".But,then who forced Jerry and Filo to put an exclamation to their brand ?
It's EBSCO Industries ,which forced the two founders of "Yahoo" to rather make it "Yahoo!".And the reason is as easy as 2+2=?
"Yahoo" had already been