akshat

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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
While this is Google's App Store and they can do pretty much anything they want, having such rules is simply anti-competitive. It is as good as saying that on Google Chrome, they will not allow people to visit Firefox.

Google has a 90+% of smartphone marketshare in many parts of the world, and this is abusing their power. Amazon is not installing malware or breaking copyright. Everything else should be allowed.

Comment · 12 years ago
This may not be true. The post has been deleted by the actual source.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thank you. We are a C-Corp registered in Delaware. Would you have any recommendations on some service which can help with this.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks. The main reason I ask is because I would like to do something similar with my product. However, after this fiasco, was skeptical about it.

If it is an ad, then it would definitely be safer to mark the link as nofollow as ads are not allowed to be links with SEO benefits.

Comment · 13 years ago
I don't understand how Rap Genius' hack was any worse than what Mixpanel does with its free plan.

https://mixpanel.com/free/

Here, they are bribing customers to link to their site? Would this not be illegal too?

Comment · 13 years ago
That is a valid point. However, there are many campaigns that are no longer active or have relevance. The learnings from that can be made public.

Alternatively if someone has the expertise in this field can start a new campaign and show how a campaign should be built for a new product. I am sure there will be a wide audience which will be willing to pay significant amount of money to learn from this.

Comment · 13 years ago
"But (like other ways of bestowing one's favors liberally) it's safe to do it so long as you're not being paid to."

We at blogVault love the above line. We often have our customers ask us for help with things completely unrelated to what we do. However, we always refuse to be paid for it. We always tell them that we are in the business of backups. Everything else we will help out but could not accept any payments for. It ensures that we don't have to commit to deadlines etc.

Comment · 14 years ago
It is for a client who is not comfortable publicly sharing the name of the domain. Is there anything I can do besides waiting it out?
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks. The registrar has not been very helpful. We waited 48 hours and still no resolution.

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