2 July 2008 7 am eastern

Lube Tube

Friedrolling: vt. Gratuitously posting Basecamp referral links disguised as tweets or blog posts.

“Man, damn the internets! That’s the third time today I’ve been Friedrolled when I thought I was clicking on porn!

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Filed under: 37signals, Blogs and Blogging, tweets

8 Responses to “Lube Tube”

  1. Daniel Carvalho said on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 am:

    I don’t know why I find this so humorous, but I do.

    On a side note, can’t believe your site is already listed in Google if you search for friedrolled.

    A shameless pimp, but I forgive you. I sense I coming fury of comments though.

    - Daniel Carvalho

  2. Matt Radel said on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 am:

    That’s really funny. Though, I fully expected something like this when they launched the affiliate network. Hell, it might even work out for ‘em.

  3. Carissa said on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm:

    Very clever, though I can understand why you’d want to make a little money off Basecamp referrals after loosing all that very expensive software yesterday!

  4. Owen Waring said on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:34 pm:

    Yeah, that happens to me all the time ;)

    So wait, if there’s such thing as a live rickroll, then what would a live friedroll be like?

  5. Brian Alvey said on July 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm:

    I wonder how quickly you could become the #1 search result for “alveyroll”.

    I have no idea what an alveyroll actually is, but I hope it has avocado.

    Alveys love avocado.

  6. Brian Alvey said on July 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm:

    Wow. That was fast. ;-)

  7. Friedrolling, alveyroll … we all roll for Google roll | jefferywhite.com said on July 7th, 2008 at 4:03 pm:

    [...] how quick would Google pick up the terms friedrolling and alveyroll if they were in this post? I think I’ll watch to see. What about [...]

  8. Jeffrey Zeldman said on August 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm:

    No. 1 for Alvey lube!

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