Xbox Launch Plan Used Fake Blog, Gets Hosed By Inquiring Minds

A new game called Halo for Xbox tried to create a fake site and weblog which would have ultimately been used to promote the game upon launch had it not been found out by one Michael O’Connor Clarke. The weblog was chronicling the apparent technical difficulties the fake and amateur looking ilovebees.com was having. Rick Bruner points out several other attempts by marketers to dishonestly use weblogs all in the name of trying to achieve below the radar marketing coolness. Most fail or get found out. Why not be honest in the first place.

Picture of Steve Hall

Steve Hall

RECENT ARTICLES

TRENDING AROUND THE WEB

9 things siblings do in adulthood that reveal how they were raised

9 things siblings do in adulthood that reveal how they were raised

Hack Spirit

People who feel fulfilled without external validation tend to share these 8 habits

People who feel fulfilled without external validation tend to share these 8 habits

Hack Spirit

When an older person says a plan or person “isn’t worth the energy anymore,” that’s rarely apathy talking; it’s usually a blunt but accurate description of how they’ve learned to spend a limited emotional budget

When an older person says a plan or person “isn’t worth the energy anymore,” that’s rarely apathy talking; it’s usually a blunt but accurate description of how they’ve learned to spend a limited emotional budget

Global English Editing

In a clinical trial, patients with IBS were handed a pill bottle labeled plainly as placebo pills with no active medication and told exactly that before they started, and their symptoms still improved significantly more than patients who received no pill at all

In a clinical trial, patients with IBS were handed a pill bottle labeled plainly as placebo pills with no active medication and told exactly that before they started, and their symptoms still improved significantly more than patients who received no pill at all

Global English Editing

Adults without close friends may not be avoiding people because they dislike connection; they may simply have learned early that saying a need out loud didn’t get it met, and it’s easier now not to say it

Adults without close friends may not be avoiding people because they dislike connection; they may simply have learned early that saying a need out loud didn’t get it met, and it’s easier now not to say it

Global English Editing

9 signs a parent-child relationship has successfully evolved into an adult friendship

9 signs a parent-child relationship has successfully evolved into an adult friendship

Hack Spirit