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engadget.com - 1/19/2009
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Remember how Michael Bayard, a Belkin Business Development representative, was apparently hiring people from Mechanical Turk to post glowing reviews of Belkin products on Amazon and elsewhere? Well, we just received an apologetic letter tucked firmly between the quaking legs of Mark Reynoso, ...
thedailybackground.com - 1/18/2009
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Update: Belkin’s president responds to The Daily Background’s
report here . ( Update: Welcome to Slashdot, Digg,
Engadget, Gizmodo readers! The latest is, I’ve heard from Belkin’s public relations department and I am expecting a formal comment to come ...
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Exclusive: Belkin’s Development Rep is Hiring ...
engadget.com - 1/19/2009
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engadget.com —
Back in our day, if you weren't busy
walking up uphill both ways, you'd write your own
dang fake reviews on Amazon, but apparently Belkin 's Michael Bayard -- or a clever impostor looking to smear the man's good name -- decided it'd be easier and ...
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Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?
go.theregister.com - 1/19/2009
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Or were they pushed? Two different companies this
week announced that they have created tools that allow
for software written using two different application development environments - the relatively new Ruby on Rails and the relatively ancient ...
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Ruby, COBOL jump on Amazon cloud
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Belkin says sorry for rigging Amazon review results
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... his army of paid zombie reviewers to write short, positive reviews about Belkin products and offered to pay for it, poorly. Today, Mark Reynoso, President of Belkin, issued a statement saying he was surprised and dismayed to learn of Bayard's sales techniques and says that the company prides itself in having the highest standard of corporate ethics. He says the company took action to remove Bayard's post, as well as reviews which may have been affected by his "reviewers". More here .
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