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2006 in tech, the marketing awards

By Nick Denton, 11:44 AM on Fri Dec 29 2006, 102 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The moment has arrived. Voting begins in Valleywag's 2006 marketing awards. The nominees: a startup which delivered pizza to Google's Mountain View gourmands; the low-rent TV ad for Eons, the social network for the over-50s; a grassroots marketing campaign by Microsoft's Zune team, the year-end meltdown of the Valley's most influential tech news publisher; Microsoft asking for the return of laptops it had given to bloggers; the painfully long life of Sony battery recall; Facebook's arrogance; and Second Life's unwise hypemongering.

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