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Related: About this forumOoh Calamity! It looks as if the Kameroon Kops have a Daffy Disaster Double Today, playmates.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/21/grant-shapps-posed-web-guruI know they're all two-faced but Student Grant seems to be taking it to extremes ....
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Ooh Calamity! It looks as if the Kameroon Kops have a Daffy Disaster Double Today, playmates. (Original Post)
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muriel_volestrangler
(101,392 posts)1. And don't forget howtopickupwomennow.com
During that incident I became aware of Grant Shapps wider use of alter egos, including Michael Green of howtocorp.com (and howtobouncebackfromrecession.com, howtostartaforum.com, howtomarketwithtwitter.com, etc.) but today Id really like to know more about his relationship with Chuck Champion of howtopickupwomennow.com:
Perhaps Grant Shapps will inform us that the connection is merely that howtopickupwomennow.com was one of the advertisers on the site savemysurgery.com, but the design, code and marketing and copy styles are identical to his* other get results quickly without really trying scams, and his past behaviour (re: sock-puppetry denials) will count against him.
(*Yes, yes, yes. The paperwork shows the business is now in his wifes name. But the advertising sales copy still live on many sites declares products to be the work of Michael Green, a Member of Parliament.)
Further, even if Grant Shapps can put a convincing amount of distance between himself and Chuck Champion, he has some serious questions to answer about site reputations he builds as an MP and then goes on to cash in so it can be used as a patch on a two-bit content farm where keyword-weighted links are sold for money. Shapps cannot pretend not to know what an online reputation is worth; too many of his products rely on teaching people how to falsify one.
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2012/09/grant-shapps/
Perhaps Grant Shapps will inform us that the connection is merely that howtopickupwomennow.com was one of the advertisers on the site savemysurgery.com, but the design, code and marketing and copy styles are identical to his* other get results quickly without really trying scams, and his past behaviour (re: sock-puppetry denials) will count against him.
(*Yes, yes, yes. The paperwork shows the business is now in his wifes name. But the advertising sales copy still live on many sites declares products to be the work of Michael Green, a Member of Parliament.)
Further, even if Grant Shapps can put a convincing amount of distance between himself and Chuck Champion, he has some serious questions to answer about site reputations he builds as an MP and then goes on to cash in so it can be used as a patch on a two-bit content farm where keyword-weighted links are sold for money. Shapps cannot pretend not to know what an online reputation is worth; too many of his products rely on teaching people how to falsify one.
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2012/09/grant-shapps/
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)2. I thought this was from Newsthump or Newsbiscuit at first
It's getting harder and harder to distinguish satire from reality.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,392 posts)3. Labour letter to DPP on Grant Shapps’ alter ego
The Labour Party is calling for an investigation into a business founded by Tory chairman Grant Shapps for possible fraud and copyright violations.
Steve McCabe MP has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Metropolitan police asking for an investigation of How To Corp, an internet marketing firm set up by Shapps and his wife in 2005.
They allege that it plagiarised information. Earlier this month The Guardian revealed that Shapps founded the company selling software that breaches Google code. Google has since announced it would blacklist sites created by TrafficPaymaster.
McCabe DPP Letter
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/09/24/exclusive-labour-letter-to-dpp-on-grant-shapps-michael-green/
Steve McCabe MP has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Metropolitan police asking for an investigation of How To Corp, an internet marketing firm set up by Shapps and his wife in 2005.
They allege that it plagiarised information. Earlier this month The Guardian revealed that Shapps founded the company selling software that breaches Google code. Google has since announced it would blacklist sites created by TrafficPaymaster.
McCabe DPP Letter
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/09/24/exclusive-labour-letter-to-dpp-on-grant-shapps-michael-green/