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Comment · 11 years ago
I don't think the name has a trademark because it's 2 generic words added together.
Comment · 11 years ago
I may have tweeted what happened but I didn't raise an issue in an official way.
Comment · 11 years ago
I registered a few Twitter accounts as well. Approximately 10 or so. Here's what happened :

I used my accounts and Twitter kept growing and growing. I updated my personal account several times a month. Another one was updated on a daily basis. My other accounts usually got updated every few months.

Then one day I got a DM from someone asking me whether I was interested in selling the account he was sending a DM to. I told him I had no intention of selling. Thank you for asking.

I didn't even ask him to name a price cause I wanted to use the account on one of my projects. So whatever his price was going to be, I couldn't care less.

Fast forward a few months of inactivity and it turns out I can no longer access my account AND a big media company is using it.

I was shocked but I remembered the guy's name so I Googled it. It turns out he was the CEO of the media company who hacked my account !

I should clarify he probably didn't hack it. The password was just too difficult so he must have pulled a few strings in order to get it done.

Comment · 12 years ago
Indifference always gets us in trouble.
Comment · 13 years ago
Not sure I understand. You want to eat less or have more food deliveries so it's always fresh ?
Comment · 13 years ago
Do you happen to know how that works ? I never used a service like mailgun or mailchimp. Do they use IP addresses that are not being blocked by the email services ?
Comment · 13 years ago
I took a quick look at it because I will be in the market for a crm system. A question I have is whether it's possible to add contacts to a campaign so it's easy to see the results per campaign.

In terms of offering more products without making it look like a tiered system. If it's invoicing, it's perfectly fine to add that as a feature we can pay for. Lots of SMBs already have their own invoicing system. They know it's something separate. Just give it a name, a different color and sell it as a feature. I think I would like a to-do list as well. Not all contacts buy the same thing but some do, I want to automate it a little bit, so it's a step by step approach that I can go through. Give me a list that I can easily copy to other projects and easily change. Not sure if Basecamp offers something similar. Add it to the crm system as a feature and charge me for it. Sounds fair to me.

Comment · 13 years ago
They are adding Success Services / access to their customer success team. Any idea what this looks like ? A consultancy service or general support ?
Comment · 13 years ago
There's a drug on the market that's taken by patients who had prostate cancer. It grows back your hair and is being bought off - label for it. I forgot the name.
Comment · 13 years ago
He's looking for a solution because what if his plane is hijacked ?
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Is that something they still do ?
Comment · 13 years ago
The indifference is a worldwide phenomenon.

And it's problematic because indifference is what gave Hitler the chance to become more powerful, indifference helped him identify minorities and it helped him build 45 concentration camps, ... the list goes on and on. You all know what happened next.

Would Hitler have been a problem if it wasn't for our indifference ? Would the technology that build the internet have been used against us if it wasn't for our indifference ?

Indifference is probably more dangerous than those who have "evil" intentions. And I don't have a solution. I don't know what we can do about it, other than educating people on it but it's clearly not working and it needs to happen now because the problem is getting bigger by the day, imo.

It's our indifference that gets us into a lot of trouble. Time and time again.

Comment · 13 years ago
Didn't this happen during the last Superbowl ? Not sure whether they were able to find what caused the power to shut down.
Comment · 13 years ago
I disagree. What's wrong with needing a warrant ?

Right now, they don't need a warrant and I bet it's already causing problems for some people because government employees misbehave when you give them a grey area like that. That's just a fact. And you're not gonna hear about it because people are powerless. They can't react to it because it will get them in more trouble.

Those who say that isn't true are the ones who haven't experienced it or are the ones taking advantage of others in similar ways.

And what makes it even worse is that the governments store all the data for years, maybe even decades. History has told us this is going to become a huge problem. For a lot of people. We may not live long enough to experience what can happen but it's just a matter of time. And this generation is responsible for it.

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