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The taste left in my mouth by moonfruit is bittersweet

July 15, 2009 By CodeBlink 5 Comments

Sorry for not updating sooner. I’ve been very busy at my day job and afterwards with work on the next Project Peru site. My mind has been a-buzz all week!

So no, I didn’t win jack from the MoonFruit contest. Didn’t even get a “wow, this guy’s site idea sucks balls!” (or something along those lines) tweet from @moontweet.

Only one of my friends tweeted about it and left a comment on the site (thanks @DonnaVitan!) even after I e-mailed a bunch of people that I figured would totally help me out. Am I bit tweaked about that? Ya of course. Don’t want to make a sob story of a blog posty, but WTF?

What the hell happened here? Why was this such an epic fail in networking? This is something that will haunt for quite a while I think.

I know the people I e-mailed when to the site, and some people from Twitter went to the link I tweeted about (who knows if @moontweet was one of them). In 6 days, the site received 136 unique visitors, with 900 page views. That’s about the only thing that I found remotely successful about this little endeavour.

Sorry MoonFruit, I will work on my lame YouTube video acting and solarizing Photoshop filters for the next contest :Pem

Oh and the icing on the cake was that they ended up giving out morn 3 iPods after the creative contest was finished!

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  • http://iheartgreatdesign.com/ ♥ Donna Vitan

    Sorry those guys sucked it pretty hard. I thought your entry was pretty creative and I’m surprised and a bit insulted that someone who ONLY solarized their contest graphic or did the most basic cut/copy/paste got mentioned in their twitter feed.

    I feel really dirty and used.

    But you’re still cool.

  • http://iheartgreatdesign.blogspot.com Donna Vitan

    Sorry those guys sucked it pretty hard. I thought your entry was pretty creative and I’m surprised and a bit insulted that someone who ONLY solarized their contest graphic or did the most basic cut/copy/paste got mentioned in their twitter feed.

    I feel really dirty and used.

    But you’re still cool.

  • http://twitter.com/donnavitan Donna Vitan

    Sorry those guys sucked it pretty hard. I thought your entry was pretty creative and I'm surprised and a bit insulted that someone who ONLY solarized their contest graphic or did the most basic cut/copy/paste got mentioned in their twitter feed.

    I feel really dirty and used.

    But you're still cool.

  • http://twitter.com/donnavitan Donna Vitan

    Sorry those guys sucked it pretty hard. I thought your entry was pretty creative and I'm surprised and a bit insulted that someone who ONLY solarized their contest graphic or did the most basic cut/copy/paste got mentioned in their twitter feed.

    I feel really dirty and used.

    But you're still cool.

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