a.k.a. Shawn Honnick specializing in wonderful since 1968
*also Chipotle pictures, NYC adventures, and little known safety tactics like fake hand washing.
**If you're a disgruntled employee, do something about it (no, it's not a pyramid... THIS is the PYRAMID) or just sit around and grumble like everyone over at the disgruntled employee forums.
Posts tagged: web 3.0
Major Internet companies have formed a united front in their opposition to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Well, almost. One exception has been the domain registrar GoDaddy. In a op-ed published in Politico shortly after SOPA was introduced in the House, GoDaddy applauded the bill and called opponents “myopic.”
Now furious Internet users at reddit (owned by Advance Publications, which also owns Condé Nast) haveorganized a boycott of the registrar.
“I just finished writing GoDaddy a letter stating why I’m moving my small businesses 51 domains away from them, as well as my personal domains,” wrote redditor selfprodigy on Thursday morning. He proposed that December 29 be declared “move your domain day,” with GoDaddy customers switching to competing registrars. The post has accumulated more than 1,500 comments, most of them supporting the idea.
We contacted GoDaddy for comment. A spokesman declined to comment on the boycott specifically, but reiterated the firm’s support for the legislation. She sent us a link to the company’s written testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last month.
“This debate is about preserving, protecting, and creating American jobs, and protecting American consumers from the dangers that they face on-line,” the statement reads. “US businesses are getting robbed and US consumers are getting duped.”
The company dismissed free speech concerns. “Not only is there no First Amendment concern, but the notion that we should turn a blind eye to criminal conduct because other countries may take oppressive steps in response is an affront to the very fabric of this nation.”
GoDaddy appears to be doubling down on this position. Today, it reposted its Politico op-ed to the GoDaddy support forums. Comments were disabled…
If there’s a really easy way to move my domains, I’ll move them in a minute. The only reason I’ve never done it yet is because I’m not really sure how to move a domain to another registrar.
I don’t think it’s as simple as registering a domain. Does it create downtime for sites hosted on domains that are moved?
wait…what?
Oh, I get it…SPAM, right?
vruz:
danielholter sez: fascinating (counter) take on Groupon.
vruz: group purchasing power is a real economic effect. however, whether groupon can realise it, that’s a different story. (and I’m highly skeptical of any big business having to run google ads and making others sell their own stuff cheaper in order to build an audience)
That means all Facebook game developers will be able to start using Credits as their payment system for virtual goods — in fact, Facebook is requiring them to make the switch by July.
via VentureBeat
Oh, well that’s nice.
Why not give me a way to send this to my iPad or maybe a page explaining it and instructing me to open it on my iPad if you’re too lazy to code something extra?
Pretentious morons.
Tim Westergren, Pandora on Charlie Rose
new flickr goodness
The internet is constantly, relentlessly public. Post something and it’s there, for everyone, all the time.
Acar has come up with a clever idea, a small idea that makes things just a little protected. Trick.ly is a url shortener with a twist. You can share a URL but hide it behind a question that only insiders can easily answer.
So, for example, you could tweet, “Here’s the source for my world-class chili: http://trick.ly/2L5”. Anyone can go there, but only people who can figure out the clue can discover the site you were pointing to.
It’s not secure. It’s sort of private. Neato.
via Seth Godin
