The software awards scam

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3375a1b9-2b78-4db6-947b-58974bd6aa55/9705A1E8-EBB3-48B0-9760-A55A1B4F9B58/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/" href="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/" style="font-size: 11px;">successfulsoftware.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/"><H3 class="entry-title"><A title="Permanent Link to "The software awards scam"" rel="bookmark" href="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/">The software awards scam</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/"><P><IMG hspace="5" alt="software award" src="http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/5star1.gif" />I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ’software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe.  The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/">PAD file</A> that described the software contains the description “This program does nothing at all”. The screenshot I submitted (below) was similarly blunt and to the point:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/"><P align="center"><A title="awardmestars_screenshot.gif" href="http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/awardmestars_screenshot.gif"><IMG alt="awardmestars_screenshot.gif" src="http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/awardmestars_screenshot.thumbnail.gif" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/successfulsoftware.net/img/25B579A5-CBD4-4CF6-9823-1E3C2AE3B7E0" alt="all_awards2.gif" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9705A1E8-EBB3-48B0-9760-A55A1B4F9B58/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

hotdoge3 says:

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