The 10 Weirdest One Weird Trick Ads | InvestorPlace

The 10 Weirdest One Weird Trick Ads | InvestorPlace

If you’ve been online any time in the past decade you’ve seen them: ads that claim to have a weird trick that helps you to do something.Someone figured out that weird, odd, unusual, unexpected and unorthodox tricks grab our attention, and marketers have run with it. The “something” is often as weird as the trick, but someone must be clicking these things because as Slate‘s Alex Kaufman points out, they’re popular enough to have spawned their own advertising genre.

Adding Facebook Events to your Google Calendar Automatically

How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technology | The Guardian

How low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity | Technology | The Guardian

How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button – even with dozens of other pages about courgettes to choose from.

Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic

Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic: "Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't."

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes

  How does this work? In one of their brochures, direct marketing services company Harte-Hanks describes the GeoCapture service they offer retail businesses as follows: “Users simply capture name from the credit card swipe and request a customer’s ZIP code during the transaction. GeoCapture matches the collected information to a comprehensive consumer database to return an address.”  In a promotional brochure, they claim accuracy rates as high as 100%.

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider: There are 10 independent YouTube stars who made over $100,000 in the past year, according to a study done by analytics and advertising company TubeMogul.

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

 Your Museum of Me is a white structure located in an unidentified utopia space far beyond city limits. There's a green open field, a shallow pond and clean white pavement surrounding your incubator-like museum. To enter, just click.