Tag: Google
Law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. have filed a class action lawsuit against Google Inc, alleging that Google Buzz service shared personal data without the consent of users, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The suit has been filed on behalf of one Eva Hibnick from Florida – chosen to represent the proportion of 31.2 million Gmail users who are unhappy with Buzz.
Hibnick’s lawyers reportedly accuse Google of breaking laws in relation to legal communications with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act alleged to have been contravened.
The lawsuit reportedly asks for an assurance that Google, which says it has not yet seen the lawsuit, will not repeat Buzz More »
There’s a quote on ad agency Anomaly’s site from the head of Proctor & Gamble R&D which says “My biggest competitor today is an individual with an idea.”
I don’t suppose he means that my idea for a washing detergent, even if it’s a really good idea, would be an immediate threat to P&G’s Ariel sales worldwide. If however I had a really popular video about it on You Tube and some sort of distribution deal, then I start to get his point.
Evian’s roller babies viral has just perambulated into the Guinness Book of Records with 45 million views, making it the daddy viral to date but even one for a mattress warehouse in Warrington has clocked up over 700,000 views with their decidedly low tech mattress dominoes world record attempt. More »
The fastest new trending topic on Twitter this morning has morphed the story of NASA’s live moon crash today into ‘NASA bombs the moon’.
It’s a funny demonstration of how close Twitter comes to recreating work place or pub banter as popular stories catch on and get twisted for effect.
Therein lies the real power of micro-blogging – it’s a firehose of breaking, realtime news, the first place Twitterholics go to alert their mates and the Twitter community at large, which econsultancy think will reach 18 million users by the end of 2009. More »
