I thought this
centered on the fact that IMDB added information to her resume
information. In other words, she had paid to create a resume online
and IMDB added some personal info they were privy to because they had
her credit card info. Sounds like that argument was largely
ignored...
Actress
Forced to Reveal Name in IMDB Lawsuit
December 25, 2011 by Dissent
Matthew Belloni reports:
The actress suing
Hollywood information database IMDb for listing her true age cannot
move forward with the case unless she reveals her identity, a federal
judge has ruled.
In a
sharply-worded decision issued on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge
Marsha Pechman found that while the anonymous actress who sued for $1
million fears blacklisting and other retribution in Hollywood if her
true identity is known, “the injury she fears is not severe enough
to justify permitting her to proceed anonymously,” the ruling
states.
Read more on The
Hollywood Reporter.
A contract of
verbal assurances? Could get interesting. Absent any evidence
(emails for example) could the company prove they had any interest in
this blog before the lawsuit?
A
Dispute Over Who Owns a Twitter Account Goes to Court
… In October
2010, Noah Kravitz, a writer who lives in Oakland, Calif., quit his
job at a popular mobile phone site, Phonedog.com, after nearly four
years. The site has two parts — an e-commerce wing, which sells
phones, and a blog.
While at the
company, Mr. Kravitz, 38, began writing on Twitter under the name
Phonedog_Noah, and over time, had amassed 17,000 followers. When he
left, he said, PhoneDog told him he could keep his Twitter account in
exchange for posting occasionally.
The company asked
him to “tweet on their behalf from time to time and I said sure, as
we were parting on good terms,” Mr. Kravitz said by telephone.
And so he began
writing as NoahKravitz, keeping all his followers under that new
handle. But eight months after Mr. Kravitz left the company,
PhoneDog sued, saying the Twitter list was a customer list, and
seeking damages of $2.50 a month per follower for eight months, for a
total of $340,000.
Data Mining &
Data Analytics: because there's money to be made!
The
joys of real-time data analysis for online retailers
There are undoubtedly a number of
aspects to the growth in online sales. But after spending some time
with a few of the major online retailers last week--including one who
might not be considered a "retailer" in the traditional
sense, I realized that the online world has a huge competitive
advantage in its predilection toward data analysis with actionable
near real-time results.
Amazon's suggested items and Apple's
accessory push over the holidays are basically "we know this, so
we suggest that" approaches toward customer loyalty that have
been very successful. But taking advantage of what we know via
programmatic interactions between human and browser or mobile phone
is being greatly extended into gaming services such as Zynga, which
can very specifically target a user with an upsell or offer new item
based on the analysis they perform in the course of gameplay.
A rose by any
other name is a petunia? Would the average MBA be concerned with
revenue or profit? Does a marginal cost of (virtually) zero make up
for the lost replacement market? Are they suggesting that after 26
reads the average library book needs replacing? Is there a business
opportunity here similar to that in the Music industry?
"The NY Times is running a
piece on the tug
of war between publishers and libraries for e-book lending. In
one corner are the publishers, who claim that unlimited lending of
e-books 'without friction is not a sustainable business model for
us.' For example, Harper Collins claims in this
corporate statement that unlimited lending would lead to a
decrease in royalties for both the publisher and the writers. The
NYT author further states that 'To keep their overall revenue from
taking a hit from lost sales to individuals, publishers need to
reintroduce more inconvenience for the borrower or raise the price
for the library purchaser.' Their current solution is to limit the
number of readings to 26 before a book license must be renewed. In
the other corner are the libraries, who are happy that e-books
are luring people back to libraries, bringing with them
desperately needed additional funding. With e-book sales going
extremely well this year and the
introduction of more capable e-readers, this debate is likely to
get worse before it gets better. The Guardian also has an
interesting related piece on the
pricing practices of the Big Six publishers."
Handy for making a handout?
dotEPUB is a web tool that lets you
convert webpages into ePub documents so you can read them on your
favorite device.
You can use dotEPUB as a browser
bookmarklet for Chrome, Safari, Firefox or even as a Chrome
extension. Simply click on the button and the tool will convert the
webpage being viewed to an ePub document. You can also use a widget
to install this conversion service on your website, thereby allowing
your website visitors to convert your webpage into an ePub document.
These documents can easily be transferred or emailed to your tablet
or eReader.
(Related) Same goal, but simpler...
With Marker.to, you can highlight
important information on any website you are browsing. The highlight
version of the webpage can then be shared with anyone using a
specific URL created by the service. That URL can be shared on
Twitter, Facebook or via email with any friend or colleague. Once
installed, a small pen icon will appear right next to your address
bar. All you have to do is click on that icon and start highlighting
important points from any article. If you want, you can change the
color of the highlight as well.
- Similar tools: Scrible, The Commentor, Bounce, Reframelt, A.nnotate, Asterpix, BubblePly, Co-ment, PicBite and MiddleSpot.
- Also read related articles:
Change
is hard! This video puts the arguments against pushing new
technology into the classroom in perspective. Unfortunately, it's
not funny...
Technology
Integration in the Classroom
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