Today, Yahoo! announced the release of Fire Eagle, a service that, according to Search Engine Land, “is intended to be something of a ‘clearinghouse’ or ’switchboard’ for location and help users ‘manage location’ across the internet and on mobile applications.”
Those of you who know what this means, raise your hands. Okay. That’s what I thought. Actually, I’m not blogging about what the service does. I’m blogging about Fire Eagle’s logo. I’m outraged! Yahoo! would infringe on the Tennessee Titans’ famed “flaming thumbtack” logo. While I’m sure that Yahoo!’s designer intentionally meant to make their logo look like a flaming thumbtack and with the Titan’s designer’s, it was just good ol’ dumb luck, I still think consumers may be confused by the remarkably similar flaming thumbtack images.
To protest Yahoo!’s blatant disregard for my home team’s copyrighted logo, I have decided that when I attend Titans games, I will not use Fire Eagle to manage my location across the internet and on mobile applications.
Note from Rex: For some reason unbeknownst to me, Delicious has started posting my daily links again. I have no idea why they chose this time in the afternoon to start back, but whatever. I know two or three of you noticed they were absent as you e-mailed me thanking me for dropping them.
Simon Dumenco Laments Coming Day When Bloggers Can't Rip-off Pro Photos | Advertising Age
Pardon me, but I don't really get the point of this article. I think it's yet another paint-by-numbers slam against bloggers using statistics he makes up. P.S. Simon needs to bookmark this: http://search.creativecommons.org.
(tags: search copyright blogging)
Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now | Waxy.org
Quote - Because of IOC regulations forbidding international distribution, NBC won't allow you to download, embed, or transcode any videos for your iPod or phone. Is this availability enough to satiate the pirates, and what does the quality look like compared to 2004? Is this availability enough to satiate the pirates, and what does the quality look like compared to 2004?
(tags: vide bittorrent olympics2008)
