First "copycat" add using the brain hack appears in my radar

My previous blog entry was about how to hack your brain, found here:

http://tane.li/2009/how-hack-your-brain

At the end of the entry I encouraged people to find even more effective brain hacks and suggested that if you copy the idea, please do tell where you got it from (and link to here, please).

This morning I noticed the first "copycat" add running in the finnish Facebook. Here's a screenshot:

Screenshot from Facebook; clicking the add opens the same page as it does when clicked from Facebook (it's a finnish language page).

I realize that by blogging about this I am in fact advertising them ;-) but I don't mind that much.

It's an add by www.wixawin.com from what I gather (with a very light glance) they seem to be a company not unlike the infamous Jamba! creating products and making money by people subscribing to mobile services as an ongoing subscription. I am sure they have their share of happy and satisfied customers (especially perhaps the people who win free stuff in their competitions). But they also have their opponents. If you put "wixawin.com scam" into Google it gives you this search result with almost 400 hits.

Their domain name gives the following info:

owner-contact: P-NZH86
owner-organization: Haagsma, N
owner-fname: N
owner-lname: Haagsma
owner-street: Postbus 76253
owner-city: Amsterdam
owner-zip: 1070 EG
owner-country: NL
owner-phone: +31201234567
owner-email: info@wixawin.com

RunToShop has been running the pictures in my previous post as advertising in Facebook for a while now. We frequently hear from people who have seen and noticed the adds and remember them very well. The memory imprint left behind by seeing a brainhack like that seems to be quite strong; people might hate it, feel disgusted by it, but they will remember it for sure ;-)

RunToShop just released our recommendation widget. The widget adds a "social layer" of recommendations and comments to any webstore. It can be installed very quickly and is free of charge. You can get the finnish language version (the only one available now, english coming later) from here:

http://www.runtoshop.fi/supplier

Lumene's webstore was one of the first to install the widget on all of their products; like this mineral makeup product here. (webstore and widget in finnish)

Also all RunToShop finnish recommendations can now be followed as a feed in Twitter through this account:

http://www.twitter.com/runtoshop_fi
(note: when publishing this post Twitter was down.. again)
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Anyways; Glad to see the brain hack spreading around. It does work after all.

If you see any further adaptations of this brain hack, feel free to post a comment here in this post.