There is a good discussion over on yCombinator about a guy that went to the Ebay Sellers Conference this past weekend and wore a Google shirt, which he claims led to him being thrown out. If you missed the story, Google wanted to throw an event for Google Checkout to compete with Paypal (owned by Ebay) at Ebay’s conference. So Ebay stopped all of their Adwords campaigns and Google backed down.
So this guy was at the conference to pitch his product to Ebay sellers when his Google apparel caught the attention of Ebay marketing executives, who apparently intimated him to the point that he left (escorted by security).
Regardless if the story is true or false (better if true) this was a great way to create linkbait in this tough linkbait time.
I’m the guy you wrote about.
As I said in my comments on YC news, I didn’t go to the convention with the intent of shaking things up. I just went to get some users to try my software, which I worked hard to build for the past 5 months. Things took an interesting turn, so why wouldn’t we try to use this opportunity to get some attention for the software?
Glad you thought my article was effective in that sense!
Comment by Alex E — June 18, 2007 @ 7:03 pm