They are at it again spamming my YouTube account with the following:

Hey, are you familiar with “PhotoSFXart” (google it)? There you can watch a great free video featuring the way to take better pictures. This made it possible for Joe to create photographs that leave you with a jaw-dropping-effect when you look at them. It may help you as well…

Such a pain in the @ss to delete all these comments. I get them about 1 an hour.

Even their 5 star rating on Google is spammed.

This is a scam stay away from these guys.

I have a YouTube channel that is just getting slammed with spam from someone over at MagicSFXphoto.

I think they are automatically creating YouTube accounts, as soon as YouTube deletes their account they open a new one and keep posting the same message over and over again.

Hey there, have you considered “MagicSFXphoto” (search on Google for it)? There you can watch a great free video showing how you can create incredible photos. It helped Daniel to make photos which leave you with that jaw-dropping-effect any time you take a look at them. Perhaps it will work for you as well…

So annoying.

They have a 1-800 number which I called then it got redirected.

This one smells really bad, I think this one is a SCAM and should not be trusted.

In there comments they say to Google “MagicSFXphoto” so if I can out rank them for the term and people see this then the money for them should dry up and they will stop scamming and spamming everyone!

Check this out:
http://feber.se/foto/art/194345/lr_dig_filma_mot_greenscreen/

This site has embedded my youtube video, but when you click to play it, it appears to have a transparent layer that detects the ‘play’ click and shows you a pre-roll ad of their own (not from YT) before my video starts.

They make money and I have visitors watching my video thinking I am greedy by placing a pre-roll ad in front of the video.

I like to share my videos by allowing embeds, but I am not sure I like others thinking I am greedy.

I think Google Buzz is pretty cool, but like Twitter the first time I used it, I am not sure if it is the real deal. Having those constant updates appear in my in box is getting annoying only after 1 full day – so the above image shows you how to turn it off at the bottom of Gmail. Your backgorund color might be different than mine.

Once you turn it off it is very easy to turn it back on again by clicking the “Turn on Buzz”.

So I am on my way home at the airport going thru the parking garage and I see a Tesla charging on a public AC outlet. I thought that was kind of ironic having a $110K car stealing from a public outlet so I took a picture.

I took that picture and placed on Flickr (under a creative commons license) and my SolarDave.com blog.

Later on other sites noticed it and blogged about including the picture and linked back to me which is totally cool.

However one of the sites placed a nofollow link on the link to my site. So I wrote them and politely asked them to make it a do follow link. They actually called me and told me they loved my blog, but when I asked them why not give me full credit for the photo they told me they don’t link out to sites they don’t partner with.

I laughed a little and then bit my lip because what I wanted to say was, “Hey shithead if you feel that way then I don’t give you permission to use my photo on your site.” But I was nice and just left it at that and got off the phone as quick as I could before I went off on the dude.

What are your thoughts on this? Shouldn’t a creative commons license require a dofollow link?

You can also follow the discussion on Flickr discussion groups.