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| Viacom Knows I Was Watching Thundercats Yesterday Posted: 03 Jul 2008 09:39 AM CDT
As Mike Arrington points out, the data required to be handed over includes every “YouTube username, the associated IP address and the videos that user has watched on YouTube.” This is a pretty ridiculous court ruling and one that I’m sure will be appealed by Google. I seriously doubt that Google is going to turn over the user data. Still, this ruling is a substantial one and it’s not the lat that we’ve heard about this. In the meantime, I highly recommend checking out the Thundercats movie. Hopefully Viacom doesn’t come knocking at your door. Ryan Singel at Wired highlights that Google’s own defense in prior court cases was used against them. That prior defense was that “IP addresses of computers aren’t personally revealing in and of themselves, against it to justify the log dump.” The one win by Google was the ability to stop Viacom from forcing the company to hand over YouTube’s source code. This is still a massive loss for privacy advocates though. |
| Run and Jump Onto the Latest Microblogging Serivce: Identi.ca Posted: 03 Jul 2008 08:44 AM CDT
One good thing about this new service is that I don’t get an email every time somebody ends up following me. On Plurk and Twitter, I get emails every day notifying me of new followers and it quickly fills up my inbox. As MG Siegler points out, there is one other problem with Identi.ca: everybody is still on Twitter. Come rain, come shine, Twitter is always available to at least complain about. MySpace is infamous for their enormous down time early on. One of the other drivers of the early adopters to go run to another platform is the hope that we will end up one of the top 100 users on a site as the top 100 users on Twitter clearly have a substantial amount of power. As Stan Schroder wrote back in May, being an early adopter is important to attracting thousands of followers. It also takes a lot of work. Just take a look at Robert Scoble who spends countless hours on FriendFeed every day. It helps him stay connected and eventually it also helps build one of the larger networks on a site. Whether you are quick to adopt the new shiny services on the web, one thing appears certain for the time being: users simply aren’t going to jump off the Twitter bandwagon anytime soon. |
Yesterday I spent the better part of an hour watching the Thundercast movie, “The Beginning.” That’s not what’s really matters though. What matters is that Viacom will now know that I was watching the movie. This ruling may not be completely legal though. As the 
Last night I spent a couple hours on a new micro-blogging service after it spread throughout the early adopter community. My conclusion? It’s still limited to early adopters and is kind of slow. Also, as with all other newly launched micro-blogging services, the primary conversation on Identi.ca is …… Identi.ca! Yes, on every other microblogging service that I use, the conversation is usually about the platform.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Social Times To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email Delivery powered by FeedBurner |
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