Comments on: First Facebook, Now MySpace – Power.com Denied

By: lakiesha

lakiesha — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:23:46 +0000

wat yalll homie out there

By: » Facebook e Myspace Bloccano L’Accesso a Power.com

» Facebook e Myspace Bloccano L’Accesso a Power.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:01:58 +0000

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By: jorgei

jorgei — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:36:56 +0000

power.com was powerscrap.com before they buy “power.com” domain.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:00:50 +0000

Remember that next time you complain that a movie is “bad” – do it or STFU.

By: Facebook e Myspace Bloccano L’Accesso a Power.com » ZioGeeK.com

Facebook e Myspace Bloccano L’Accesso a Power.com » ZioGeeK.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:00:39 +0000

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By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:23:20 +0000

Sorry but search engine caches such as Google Cache and The Wayback Machine only show ORIGINAL content as it was formatted in the original source, whereas Delver copies and pastes from various sources to create their own profiles. If they were only a “search” or “cache” of information, then they should not be posting myspace pictures together with flickr id and facebook full names. There is a serious breach of privacy and confidentiality when your flickr or myspace friends can find your real name and where you live.

Social network aggregators such as power.com are only OFFERING a service that some may find helpful and can choose to register for, they are not doing anything without user permission or knowledge.

By: Son Nguyen

Son Nguyen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:13:20 +0000

Data scraping is unreliable and ad-hoc at best compare to a public API. Why don’t we all share things with each other? Well, it’s human nature to be a little self-fish I guess.

By: fb689302141

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:05:00 +0000

I had an Orkut account many many moons ago,… this post is filed under `things that make you go hmmm` …

Will Disby suffer the same wrath of Facebook ?

ciao,
JP

By: » Dopo Facebook, anche MySpace blocca Power.com

» Dopo Facebook, anche MySpace blocca Power.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:00:44 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:51:11 +0000

No need to apologize.
How do you expect them to do any R&D under the conditions they’re forced to live in?
Boycotting is cruel, but as a response to bombing their children it’s pretty fair I think. These israeli entrepreneurs should blame their governments.
There is no excuse for killing innocent children and people, for both sides.

By: John

John — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:47:09 +0000

Bad publicity . . . but they say bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. I ran across a new one, socialcatch.com. It looks like they are just signing up people right now though.

By: chrisco

chrisco — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:20:03 +0000

Lot of free publicity for Power.com, that’s for sure.

By: AliBaba

AliBaba — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:15:10 +0000

I apologize for my previous post.

Now that I think about it, maybe if the Palestinians invested their creativity and R&D in Web 2.0 start-ups instead of in building crude missiles and digging tunnels to smuggle explosives, the Middle East would have looked differently.

So much creativity in the Arab world appears to be tunneled to one direction only: hatred.

By: ripper234

ripper234 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:42:25 +0000

Also, you might consider Google Cache and The Wayback Machine, both of which will retain your website even after you remove it.

By: Oo.. the Nigerian guy

Oo.. the Nigerian guy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:11:07 +0000

When you say outside, what do you mean? Outside the companies or outside the US? I’ll assume you mean outside the company. Please have a look at the comments and you will understand where I am coming from.

As for them stealing other peoples sweat, isn’t there a way for a deal to be worked out? What stops Facebook or any other website to demand revenue from ads served on Facebook through the site? Mind you, the complete site shows up in power.com

By: AliBaba

AliBaba — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:02:15 +0000

Boycott israeli web 2.0 apps:
Jajah
Aniboom
Metacafe
Speedbit
Foxytunes
MySupermarket
Zlango
MyHeritage
WeFi
eSnips
PicApp

By: fb216105

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:22:58 +0000

This isn’t an argument of race or ethnicity. It is an argument of an outside company using questionable tactics to fast track itself in front of the eyes of hundreds of millions of users and profit from the work of other hard working risk taking companies.

I will give them some credit though, unlike clone Facebook sites which just copy the UI and functionality bit by bit, power is at least trying to provide some value by allowing users to aggregate their social information into one place. At the same time, they want something for nothing in that they take data from other providers but serve their own ads. How do you expect any of the companies (myspace, facebook, google, hi5) to hire engineers, buy servers, and pay electrical bills so their data can be routed into someone elses back pocket? People would have this same impression of them even if they were in Silicon Valley. Again, not a race issue, just an issue of business ethics.

By: Oo.. the Nigerian guy

Oo.. the Nigerian guy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:37:20 +0000

From the comments here, there is obviously a lot segregation, ‘locationism’ and I dare say racism on the web. Is Power.com bad or is the problem that they are a Brazilian company? While I recognize the influence of America on the net, the idea that you can only succeed or get support if you come to America or you are American is not good. If everybody decides to come over to America, you guys will be the first to complain that foreigners have ‘invaded’ your domain. The beauty of the Internet is that location should not matter!

By: MySpace Blocks Power.com « Wir sprechen Online.

MySpace Blocks Power.com « Wir sprechen Online. — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:05:58 +0000

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By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:33:20 +0000

same here too

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By: fb587192193

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:22:33 +0000

this is real discrimination and its really pathetic.
If power.com happens to silicon valley startup, they would have love them… shit ya all

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:01:47 +0000

Maybe Power.com is better off just shutting down and going to run and hide in their mommy’s house and start over again?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:57:30 +0000

You’d have thought the VC involved might have done some due diligence to make sure the entire business model wasn’t based on an insecure and essentially unofficial scraping of social networks’ data… Good luck to them, I’m sure they are a little jittery now.

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:25:32 +0000

The only way that Power.com can get rid of this bad news is to ask permission to all those social network and educate them.

Nat
http://www.halflet.com

By: Tomer Gabel

Tomer Gabel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:23:56 +0000

Sam: We (being Delver) do not store user credentials. Where information is not publically available we use the information provider’s (e.g. Facebook’s) authentication mechanism on a purely opt-in basis; in other words, you never give Delver your username/password for another service.

As to your own problem, our update mechanism is undergoing a major overhaul and I believe your change will register soon enough.

Disclaimer: Obviously I work for Delver; this is purely my own opinion and not necessarily representative of the company’s official policy. This is, however, the spirit with which we (the engineers) build the product.