FPP to an awesome product (not mine)?

May 7, 2005 10:58 AM

So say I find a product on the web...I buy said product, and it is revolutionary for its purpose (using your mouse...it is a combo of mouse pad/teflon feet/teflon wax from the same company), would it be wrong/shameless to link said product on MetaFilter? (I am in no way related to this company other than I bought the products and I find them to be truly amazing). I simply want to share the love with any gamers/designers that could benefit from its use.
posted by gren to Etiquette/Policy at 10:58 AM (25 comments total)

As long as you don't have any connection to the company then it's probably ok.

Although, you should seriously consider whether it would be better to post about it on your own blog.
posted by bshort at 11:07 AM on May 7, 2005

Another good way to share is sending it to Cool Tools.
posted by frykitty at 11:12 AM on May 7, 2005

Have you tried the new Pepsi?
posted by caddis at 11:13 AM on May 7, 2005

Sorry, gren, but this is the 21st Century.

Anyone using a computer for any extended period of time uses a trackball controller, or some of those floating, pulsating rings which change color. Mousepads and their corresponding interface devices went out of style a long time ago.
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:15 AM on May 7, 2005

gren, bad idea in my opinion, though people have done it. It's not what MeFi is for, really.
posted by dobbs at 11:16 AM on May 7, 2005

Really bad idea. And I wish others would stop posting about products like FireFox and OSX. Everyone already knows about them and is well aware when an update is available. Sheesh.
posted by five fresh fish at 11:19 AM on May 7, 2005

Thanks for the hookup with cooltools frykitty.
Yah...now and then the idea of a 'product page' for MeFi *sounds* like a worthwhile thingamabob.
Sometimes product stuff on the front page is ok -- when you haven't seen it and it's great or intriguing or there's an angle under the surface. But I guess that means you need to get around a bit more.
posted by peacay at 11:45 AM on May 7, 2005

And be sure to disclose whether or not you're a BzzAgent.
posted by ericb at 11:49 AM on May 7, 2005

trackball controller

my idiot acquaintances seem to love those abominations. they're the same sort who install bonzi buddies, shop-o-matic toolbars, and hang out on abetterinternet.com using p2p to share nail.exe.
posted by quonsar at 11:52 AM on May 7, 2005

I resent that, q, and so does my bonzi buddy.
posted by wendell at 11:59 AM on May 7, 2005

Will you be my bonzi buddy?
posted by AlexReynolds at 12:15 PM on May 7, 2005

I love my floating, pulsating ring.
posted by bshort at 12:26 PM on May 7, 2005

Works for me, gren. Hell, half the stuff on MeFi now is an advertisement for something.
posted by mischief at 12:42 PM on May 7, 2005

Smart Dalek, I guess you've never picked up a Mouse Rug. I picked up a persian styled one four years ago, it looks pretty much as good as it did the day I got it. It tracks my mouse very well, and adds a bit of warmth to my dekstop.

As for posting said product on Metafilter...is it really best of the web? Aren't there plenty of other sites that specialize in that sort of thing such as Cool Tools?
posted by furtive at 12:42 PM on May 7, 2005

I'm curious. What is it?
posted by Evstar at 1:41 PM on May 7, 2005

Wait a minute, you want to shill a mouse pad on the blue? Please don't.
posted by Evstar at 1:42 PM on May 7, 2005

MetaFilter: my floating, pulsating ring.
posted by blacklite at 2:53 PM on May 7, 2005

Where is I EAT TAPES when you need it?
posted by sciurus at 3:07 PM on May 7, 2005

Note that teleporation and time travel, when invented, will probably count as permissable exceptions to such rules.
posted by nthdegx at 5:39 PM on May 7, 2005

Oh, *that's* what I'm supposed to do with that pulsating ring? D'oh!
posted by matildaben at 6:51 PM on May 7, 2005

Is it this telco powered glow in the dark vibrator?
posted by fixedgear at 5:19 AM on May 8, 2005

trackball controller

my idiot acquaintances seem to love those abominations. they're the same sort who install bonzi buddies, shop-o-matic toolbars, and hang out on abetterinternet.com using p2p to share nail.exe.

you'll pry my trackball from my cold dead hands.
it has nothing to do with the impulse download/install anything, it's about limited desk space and sheer laziness (move your thumb instead of your whole arm).
posted by juv3nal at 2:25 PM on May 8, 2005

Whole arm? You need to turn your mouse sensitivity way up, mate.
posted by nthdegx at 3:25 PM on May 8, 2005

Yea. Trackballs are only for centipede.
posted by mexican at 10:17 PM on May 8, 2005

Whole arm? You need to turn your mouse sensitivity way up, mate.
elbow-down then. still more than just a thumb.
posted by juv3nal at 10:44 PM on May 8, 2005