On May 6, 10:20=A0pm, allen <ayho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi RK and Torfinn,
>
> I'm sorry you feel that way about FaceBook. For us, it's a convenient
> way to reach out to customers directly by sharing content such as
> videos, pictures, news to everyone who is a part of our Terasic
> FaceBook page. It's simply a platform for expression of interest and
> the latest FPGA platform news, so you are right about that.
>
> As for people who abstain from using FaceBook (which I can understand
> completely), we are also constantly looking for ways to interact
> directly with FPGA designers, such as through forums, our webpage,
> etc.
>
> As always, if you have any suggestions, we would always certainly
> appreciate them.
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>
> On May 5, 2:58=A0am, NeedCleverHandle <d_s_kl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
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> > On May 3, 2:37=A0am, allen <ayho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hey guys!
>
> > > Terasic Technologies is holding a contest to WIN the newly released
> > > Altera DE0-Nano! Head over tohttp://www.terasic.com.tw/events/DE0_Nan=
o_Contest/
> > > to leave a comment and win one today!!!
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Allen Houng
> > > Terasic Technologieswww.terasic.com
>
> > Mr. Allen Houng,
>
> > FaceBook? =A0Really?
>
> > If you were interested in the hobby market, FaceBook might be the
> > right place. =A0Sadly, my vision of combined FaceBook and FPGAs looks a
> > lot like someone living in his mother's basement building geeky toys.
>
> > I like to be professional with my FPGA work.
>
> > RK.

How about LinkedIn?  It has FPGA groups (but honestly, I don't read
them).

Altera has a good wiki - that one I do read, and IIRC, that's how I
found TerAsic in the first place.

Right here - comp.arch.fpga - I feel that it's OK to have a reasonable
number of product announcements here.  It looks to me like Brand-X
monitors this board for advertising/customer relation benefit.  (No
problem with that - helping people so that they buy more product is
how industry is supposed to work.)

And don't you have a data base of customers on your web site?
Shouldn't be too hard to add potential customers.

Just a couple of thoughts,
RK

Hi RK and Torfinn,

I'm sorry you feel that way about FaceBook. For us, it's a convenient
way to reach out to customers directly by sharing content such as
videos, pictures, news to everyone who is a part of our Terasic
FaceBook page. It's simply a platform for expression of interest and
the latest FPGA platform news, so you are right about that.

As for people who abstain from using FaceBook (which I can understand
completely), we are also constantly looking for ways to interact
directly with FPGA designers, such as through forums, our webpage,
etc.

As always, if you have any suggestions, we would always certainly
appreciate them.

Thanks,
Allen

On May 5, 2:58=A0am, NeedCleverHandle <d_s_kl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 3, 2:37=A0am, allen <ayho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys!
>
> > Terasic Technologies is holding a contest to WIN the newly released
> > Altera DE0-Nano! Head over tohttp://www.terasic.com.tw/events/DE0_Nano_=
Contest/
> > to leave a comment and win one today!!!
>
> > Thanks,
> > Allen Houng
> > Terasic Technologieswww.terasic.com
>
> Mr. Allen Houng,
>
> FaceBook? =A0Really?
>
> If you were interested in the hobby market, FaceBook might be the
> right place. =A0Sadly, my vision of combined FaceBook and FPGAs looks a
> lot like someone living in his mother's basement building geeky toys.
>
> I like to be professional with my FPGA work.
>
> RK.

On May 3, 2:37=A0am, allen <ayho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> Terasic Technologies is holding a contest to WIN the newly released
> Altera DE0-Nano! Head over tohttp://www.terasic.com.tw/events/DE0_Nano_Co=
ntest/
> to leave a comment and win one today!!!
>
> Thanks,
> Allen Houng
> Terasic Technologieswww.terasic.com

Mr. Allen Houng,

FaceBook?  Really?

If you were interested in the hobby market, FaceBook might be the
right place.  Sadly, my vision of combined FaceBook and FPGAs looks a
lot like someone living in his mother's basement building geeky toys.

I like to be professional with my FPGA work.

RK.

On 05/03/2011 11:37, allen wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> Terasic Technologies is holding a contest to WIN the newly released
> Altera DE0-Nano! Head over to http://www.terasic.com.tw/events/DE0_Nano_Contest/
> to leave a comment and win one today!!!

For some reason, this contest is set up to use Facebook.
I don't use Facebook (and no, I won't start using it either), so thanks, 
but this contest is
not for me.
-- 
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway