Thursday, February 22, 2007

What's born from cat...

...will, eventually, eat mice. These people are definitely not dropping their dubious habits. In a desperate attempt to regain a decent Google ranking, several people at the SigEx Foundry have come up with a series of inane blogs that link to one another, covering their vaporware products. Here's a few of them:

http://sigexnanodata.blogspot.com/
http://frederic-artru.blogspot.com/
http://diana-sigex.livejournal.com/
http://silviasigexfoundry.vox.com/

And the list goes on. It's very interesting to see how a company of this size (the size they pretend to be) has to use means like blogger.com and others to promote themselves. All the posts are excerpts from the company presentation flyers, which are also available on their website.

Besides that, they've started posting messages to various newsgroups, trying to pass as good students, interns at the SigEx Foundry. Here's one of them. They all go around the "I'm a student at the SigEx Foundry which belongs to SigEx Ventures, which is great OMG OMG ponies" line. Most of the posts are answered to by a certain Pierre-Marie Durand, who also has an amusing Digg.com record here. Overall, these guys look clueless. I wonder why they have to use public mailing lists and newsgroups to gather the knowledge that The Foundry is supposed to provide them, based on their own statements. Nothing adds up. Judge for yourselves.


If they're so good at penetrating media channels, why do they need this? Good products sell themselves. Customer testimonials are the best token of a successful business. So far they have none. Besides that, their COO, Mr. Frederic Artru, has personally opened his own blog, along the same lines as the aforementioned ones. I particularly liked one quote of his: "All these methodologies are well known in top universities around the world and we believe should be taught to all talents that want to succeed in a global world.". How does GLOBAL WORLD sound to you?



Guys, stop it. You lost. You're uncovered. Your deeds stand proof of your stupidity and malevolence. If you were so good as you say, people would know about you already from various other means, you wouldn't need blogs for promotion. You'd have buzz around you, related to your miraculous technologies, products, learning techniques and world saving visions. None of that is happening right now. Why? Why aren't there any success stories , told by successfull people, that relate to you, at least remotely? Why aren't there any start-ups that can vouch for your good intentions and your contribution to their development? Why?

Because that's all there is to it. Smoke. And mirrors. And a good load of wasted money.

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