Fluther accuses Jason Calacanis of content stealing

The concept of internet plagiarism is a matter of concern and we all know that. While we had brought this issue into limelight almost a year before (Code of conducts for bloggers), a new and far more serious issue has stirred this debate once again. This time the person under allegation is none other than Jason Calacanis. blog.fluther.com/blog (blog of a Q/A community, fluther) wrote an open letter to Jason about content stealing and hijacking them to his own concern, mahalo.com.

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TechCrunch Loses My Respect for Copyright Violation

As you know, Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, fired 10% of his staff and then wrote an emotional email to his private mailing list, stating specifically, "Please feel free to forward this to folks you think it would help, but please don’t republish this on the web.". The copyrighted content was published in its entirety by Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch. Jason was obviously not very pleased about this and throughout the day tried to get TechCrunch to remove the post without success. Some of his twitter messages on this context are illuminating: Full article (614 words) »

FriendFeed Favors 9 Elites To Gain Maximum Followers?

Allen from CenterNetworks made a startling discovery. It appears FriendFeed show the same 9 friendfeed users as default every time a new users signs-up. While it is excellent for the elites like Robert Scoble & Jason Calacanis, others are left behind.

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