Tag Archives: defamation

ePerks & iHype – Legal Kneejerk – Sues Blogger

I had intended to do a followup this week with more scathing evidence of ePerks shilling all over the blogosphere, but ePerks have pre-empted that by taking some rather unusual and desperate action... Remember I am not a lawyer, and this is a stong opinion piece. I am trying extremely hard to create an assertion of fact dressed up as an opinion

ePerks Are Suing Vlad

I found out on Saturday from Vlad that he is being sued by ePerks. My previous post on ePerks and iHype was just the tip of the iceburg of the information that is being collected, both prior to the legal action, and plans for the future. Here are the documents served on Vlad.
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Google Reputation Management Disaster With Open Social

Gmail ClownGoogle just walks into reputation management and trademark problems one after the other, and today is no exception. Not too long ago it was their attempt to force people to give up domains legally registered using the acronym "g.m.a.i.l" or gmail, which Google uses for their email service. The Polish Poets are still in business, and apparently Google also lost in other countries. So today news is breaking about Google's new "Open Social" platform for social media web developers. The big problem is that Google don't own the trademark, or even a lot of the concept behind it, and they certainly don't own their own SERPs (search engine results pages)
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