Archive for the ‘Websites’ Category

Congressman Lives up to Reputation

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Florida Congressman, Alan Grayson (Rep), should have kept his mouth shut (is that even possible for a politician?) when a local Florida resident expressed her views of the Congressman online. Angie Langley set up a blog entitled MyCongressmanIsNuts.com, in parody to Grayson’s site, CongressmanWithGuts.com.  Within the content of her blog Langley ...

AshleyMadison.com is really bad, so don’t tell anyone about AshleyMadison.com

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

There's no such thing as bad publicity, right?  Maybe so. The Boston Herald has written an article today talking about how bad this new online dating service is.  It matches up married men and women for "an affair to remember".  I agree that the site is bad taste, but I think ...

Police upset with RateMyCop.com, so they tell the media all about it

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

RateMyCop is a new site that allows you to rate police officers that you deal with, similar to sites for teachers, doctors, restaurants, etc.  However, the police aren't happy about it at all.  A few sites (Wired, TechDirt) call the fears of the police unnecessary, because the site doesn't post ...

The brief MobiTV vs. HowardForums fight comes to a peaceful ending

Friday, March 7th, 2008

After discovering that their public, unsecured streaming URL was posted on HowardForums, MobiTV decided to sue.   HowardForums came back and essentially said "bring it on". Now comes word that MobiTV is wisely giving up this fight.   The president of MobiTV spoke with Howard Chui (the "Howard" in HowardForums) and said they'd ...

HowardForums isn’t going down without a fight

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Howard Chui, owner of HowardForums, has decided to defy MobiTV's cease and desist to take down the "illegal" post that is on his site. I think Howard will find a lot of people on his side.  While I'm quite sure he'll win the battle, I hope it doesn't cost him too ...

MobiTV mad that their public streaming URL was discovered

Friday, March 7th, 2008

MobiTV provides a paid service that allows you to stream TV to mobile phones.  However, the data stream is sent using a completely open URL that anyone can access. Someone over at HowardForums noticed this and posted the URL of the feed.  MobiTV has responded; not by securing the feed, but ...

Traffic Power

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Traffic Power is a company that offers to help improve the ranking of your site in the search engines. A customer of theirs had a bad experience and created a site to express his displeasure. The Wall Street Journal, who had already written about the case before, decided to dig a ...