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 Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: 'Spam man' wins gold |
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 | Quote: | According to the International Olympic Committee's website, Australia's gold medallist Dale Begg-Smith, runs an internet pop-up advertising company that he describes as the third largest of its type.
But that's about as much detail as you'll get out of the Lamborghini-driving Canadian-turned-Australian moguls skier who is reluctant to talk about his dealings which remain shrouded in secrecy.
Speaking on Monday at a pre-race press conference, the 21-year-old said he had wound down his multimillion-dollar internet business to concentrate on his Olympic ambitions.
He refused to reveal the name of his business, nor details of its operations or size. He did say it had "two or three" employees and that it wasn't really an issue with skiing because it had been wound down.
"I haven't spent much time on it, I've let it taper off during the ski season," Begg-Smith said when pressed about his work. "There's not much to say. We design technology and stuff like that, some advertising stuff, too."
But the companies that he and brother Jason Begg-Smith are involved with are some of the most annoying aspects of the web.
Two main companies - called AdsCPM and CPM Media - make money by skimming a small percentage each time an ad scores a hit or is directed to a client's site.
Begg-Smith said the figures being bandied about his business - one report had him earning $40 million - were untrue. |
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He wouldn't by any chance happen to be the one behind the "Smiley Central" pop-ups would he? They have to be the most annoying pop-ups ever - and they cause my browser to crash when they keep making Microsoft Office 2000 installer to come up...very, very annoying 
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: new browser? |
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i'd say someone needs a new browser and andrew what is with your big red monstrotum 'andrew247' its very satanic man - you'l scare people...... 
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: Re: new browser? |
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| rossco24/7 wrote: | i'd say someone needs a new browser and andrew what is with your big red monstrotum 'andrew247' its very satanic man - you'l scare people...... |
It's only IE which makes it crash, but on the computer I'm on just now, it only has IE. Like my sig then? 
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