Back in March Facebook filed a lawsuit against Sanford “Spamford” Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw over spam messages being sent on their social network. The claim was made under the CAN-SPAM Act which bans false and misleading marketing e-mails. The U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Facebook.
Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that Wallace “willfully violated” a restraining order and a preliminary injunction that was issued in the case. “The record demonstrates that Wallace willfully violated the statutes in question with blatant disregard for the rights of Facebook and the thousands of Facebook users whose accounts were compromised by his conduct,” stated Fogel. The statement also ruled that Wallace no longer has the right to create a Facebook account.
Facebook’s lead counsel said that the social network does not expect to receive a majority of the reward, but the verdict of the case may serve as a deterrent for others who plan to spam the social network.
Back in May Wallace had to pay $234 million in a trial against MySpace. Wallace failed to turn over documents or show up in court on several counts when that case was taking place. Two years before that, Wallace had to pay $4 million as part of a lawsuit by the FTC and several other companies such as AOL. Last year Facebook was awarded $873 million from a Canadian man that was spamming the social network too.
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TBWA is the company behind a bus billboard that snows when being sent a text message. TBWA was also the company behind the Taco Bell chihuahua. One of TBWA’s biggest clients is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), whose account was managed by Lee Clow.
Clow will be stepping down today from day-to-day activities but he definitely left his mark with Apple as he leaves the company. Clow was behind the concepts for the Apple “1984″ commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in January 1984, the Think Different campaign in 1997, the silhouette iPod dancers, and the recent Mac vs. PC ads. Duncan Milner will be filling in for Clow as he is an executive creative director at Apple and previously worked for TBWA.
However Clow will remain on board at TBWA as the chief creative officer of the Media Arts Lab. Media Arts Lab was created in 2006 specifically to serve Apple as an agency that creates culture rather than just commercials.
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Bling Nation has just raised a $20 million Series B round of funding from Balderton Capital. The company develops payment systems for mobile phones. Since Bling Nation launched in 2007, the company has raised a total of $33 million in total funding. Bling Nation partners specifically with local banks for offering secure payment transactions.
Bank customers put a chip on their mobile phone that allows them to make a payment directly from their checking account to merchants or stores. Local merchants are also given card machines that scan the chips on the mobile devices. Bling Nation is being tested heavily in Colorado Springs and Woodland Park in Colorado. Bling makes revenue by taking a commission for each transaction. Merchants end up paying less in fees to Bling Nation than credit card purchases making it an appealing transaction option.
Bling Nation was founded by Meyer Malka ad Wenceslao Casares. In the last round of funding, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meck and Camp Ventures participated. Bling Nation is based in Palo Alto, California.
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On October 26, 2009 Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) decided to shut down GeoCities. This took place about 10 years after Yahoo! bought GeoCities for $4.7 billion. GeoCities had gone public about one year before and was profitable. GeoCities had a bit of sentimental value for everyone that created a website in the 1990’s. I remember the first time I designed a website, I made it through GeoCities. It was around 1998 and it was South Park fan page when I was in 10th grade. Anyway GeoCities is no longer with us… or is it?
GeoCities has returned in the form of Reocities. A man named Jacques decided to download the content and websites. Then he republished the content on Reocities. About 600,000 GeoCities websites were rescued before shutting down and put on ReoCities. “On the 20th of October 2009, about a week before GeoCities was really going to close, someone else posted a link, pointing to some interesting pages. These were on an old GeoCities account, about to be erased. It wasn’t what I would call a masterpiece, and I didn’t agree with all of it, but it seemed like it was worth keeping,” wrote Jacques in a detailed post about how he pulled off the endeavor.
It is pretty fun to check out the top level “neighborhoods” listed on ReoCities and selecting random numbers. This way you can check out a piece of Internet history.
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Twitter has launched a Lists feature for all users. This feature was available on TweetDeck for quite a bit of time but Twitter has rolled it into their own service. Twitter user Nick Kallen confirmed the news in a tweet. The service was only available to a set number of users but expanded to everyone today.
Not only can you create your own list, but you can also find out what lists you are on for different users. List descriptions will be added in the next few weeks according to TechCrunch.
This is good news for those who update Twitter from the web and log in regularly. Personally I stick to using TweetDeck for updating Twitter so I’m not sure how much I’ll use the Lists feature. But it is still an awesome feature to have nonetheless.
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