A judge in a US federal court in New York has ordered Google to hand over the entire YouTube logging database, revealing the viewing habits and history of YouTube users. While I’m optimistic that this order will get reversed — as it violates the Video Privacy Protection Act and completely tramples individuals’ privacy solely because […]
Updated: There’s a mess of inline updates to this story, provided by one Manny Ramon in the comments. Mr. Ramon says he was “SEOColumbus” on Twitter (though that account now looks to have been deleted), and that he provided “SEO expertise and tips” to a friend that worked on DSW.com, but otherwise has no connection […]
I’ve been a T-Mobile customer for several years now. I’ve always been happy with them — they offer good prices for their services, and their customer service has always been great (as I’ve written before. But I’m left reconsidering that this morning, as apparently T-Mobile has decided to block messages its users send to Twitter’s […]
It was ages ago that we were one of the first sources to identify Happy Slapping - back in January 2005, in fact. Since then, it’s grown from a tasteless prank - filming on a camera phone an unsuspecting victim’s reaction to being slapped on the cheek - to filming incredibly violent, illegal and unprovoked […]
Rudy de Waele points out that the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative has launched Planet Mobile Web, an aggregator of several blogs that discuss the mobile web. It’s an effort to increase communication and the community around the topic, as well as encourage conversations across different blogs. It’s a cool idea, and worth a look, particularly […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote quite a restrained post urging TextAmerica to have a rethink about their plans to delete their long-time customers’ free accounts and hence, peoples’ precious digital memories or
“It would be so easy to become victims of a very nasty hate campaign if they screw with people’s photos and memories.”
As […]
UPDATE: Very funny video on the same lines here. Thanks, Mark.
Please forgive this slightly off-topic post, but I think it has important lessons for any organisation with customers, and is therefore worthy of consideration.
I came back from a week in Silicon Valley on Saturday morning, flying with Delta via Atlanta to Munich. A 5 hour […]
Dan Hoyt, the pervert that got busted by cameraphone for masturbating on the NYC subway got off in a different way this week — receiving just two years’ probation for the crime. Unsurprisingly, he confirms an earlier profile by again proving he’s a complete jackass:
Has he really changed?
I asked Hoyt an aching question. One […]
Not entirely sure how to feel about this. Filming more violence doesn’t really help anything, but it sure is satisfying on some level to see the snot get kicked out of a happy slapper.
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One of the more bizarre mini-rants I witnessed at CTIA was the representative of a major record label publicly berating operators about holding back the mobile music industry, with the accusation that they “just didn’t get it”. This from a sector who couldn’t even see “it”, let alone get it for the last 6 years. […]