Comments on: In case of emergency, do not use Twitter http://www.afhill.com/blog/twitter-not-for-emergencie/ Reflections on online strategy, social media marketing, web accessibility and interactive design. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: TechRadiumScum http://www.afhill.com/blog/twitter-not-for-emergencie/#comment-224759 TechRadiumScum Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:54:17 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=2252#comment-224759 Here is the deal with the TechRadium patent trolls. (no, I have not been affected by them! I just hate maggots!) They monitored existing technological methods and processes which were not patented and started writing patent applications while delivering an industry inferior product which was stricken by loss after loss in bidding opportunities. Low and behold, some moron examiner grants them a patent on methods and processes which have been in existence for 20 years prior (including in educational materials dating back to the 70's) and what does TechRadium do? They launch suits against every company they had lost bids to. Is this the original design intent of a patent process? Here we have a company with a very very low yearly sales record (might that infer an inferior product??) and a busy news page which has recitation after recitation of patent information in news releases. Look at this link: http://www.techradium.com/about/pressReleases.cfm All the markings of a well thought out subterfuge by a pond scum company. i.e. If we cannot beat them, let’s leverage a bogus patent to extort licensing agreements. One moronic company, BlackBoard Connect, went ahead and settled with these idiots for a cross licensing agreement! Wanna know why? Simple. PondScum Inc. is not trying to extort each company for a LOT of money…..just a few points. As in a few points times thousands of companies. Classic Troll behavior. Turns out, BlackBoard joined up with TechRadium, ahem, excuse me: PondScum. TechRadium Reaches Agreement with Blackboard Inc. to. Cross‐License Notification Patents http://www.iptoday.com/pdf/2009/10/TechnoBytes_Oct09.pdf You gotta just KNOW that TechRadium gave up the farm to get this agreement and then used it as a bully pulpit to attack numerous companies. Give them credit….they chose a good victim in BlackBoard. PondScum knew if they arrived at an agreement with BB, even if it was 1/10000th of a penny on a dollar, it would bolster their troll subterfuge. Oh, the reason BB settled? Ha! Easy. They saw that the patent was bogus, but with a near free licensing agreement….they themselves could participate in the patent advancement (and defen$e) and guess what? PondScum agreed! Now you have BlackBoard and PondScum commiserating and joining on co-patent technology! So the other player the industry needs to REALLY take a look at is BlackBoard Connect! They are sitting back, executing NDA’s with companies and reporting back to PondScum which companies are viable candidates for the next lawsuit. Ya just can make this stuff up. Okay. I feel better now.... Here is the deal with the TechRadium patent trolls.

(no, I have not been affected by them! I just hate maggots!)

They monitored existing technological methods and processes which were not patented and started writing patent applications while delivering an industry inferior product which was stricken by loss after loss in bidding opportunities.

Low and behold, some moron examiner grants them a patent on methods and processes which have been in existence for 20 years prior (including in educational materials dating back to the 70’s) and what does TechRadium do?

They launch suits against every company they had lost bids to.
Is this the original design intent of a patent process?

Here we have a company with a very very low yearly sales record (might that infer an inferior product??) and a busy news page which has recitation after recitation of patent information in news releases.

Look at this link: http://www.techradium.com/about/pressReleases.cfm

All the markings of a well thought out subterfuge by a pond scum company.

i.e. If we cannot beat them, let’s leverage a bogus patent to extort licensing agreements.

One moronic company, BlackBoard Connect, went ahead and settled with these idiots for a cross licensing agreement!

Wanna know why?

Simple.

PondScum Inc. is not trying to extort each company for a LOT of money…..just a few points.

As in a few points times thousands of companies. Classic Troll behavior.
Turns out, BlackBoard joined up with TechRadium, ahem, excuse me: PondScum.
TechRadium Reaches Agreement with Blackboard Inc. to. Cross‐License Notification Patents

http://www.iptoday.com/pdf/2009/10/TechnoBytes_Oct09.pdf

You gotta just KNOW that TechRadium gave up the farm to get this agreement and then used it as a bully pulpit to attack numerous companies.

Give them credit….they chose a good victim in BlackBoard. PondScum knew if they arrived at an agreement with BB, even if it was 1/10000th of a penny on a dollar, it would bolster their troll subterfuge.

Oh, the reason BB settled? Ha! Easy. They saw that the patent was bogus, but with a near free licensing agreement….they themselves could participate in the patent advancement (and defen$e) and guess what?

PondScum agreed!

Now you have BlackBoard and PondScum commiserating and joining on co-patent technology!

So the other player the industry needs to REALLY take a look at is BlackBoard Connect!

They are sitting back, executing NDA’s with companies and reporting back to PondScum which companies are viable candidates for the next lawsuit.

Ya just can make this stuff up.

Okay. I feel better now….

]]> By: opl http://www.afhill.com/blog/twitter-not-for-emergencie/#comment-212390 opl Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:48:22 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=2252#comment-212390 Yep, the first problem is with the patent : why was such a patent accepted in the first place? It's so obvious and was certainly done before ... ... and at the end, lawyers win ... a lot of cash :/ Yep, the first problem is with the patent : why was such a patent accepted in the first place? It’s so obvious and was certainly done before …
… and at the end, lawyers win … a lot of cash :/

]]> By: Amy http://www.afhill.com/blog/twitter-not-for-emergencie/#comment-211529 Amy Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:54:41 +0000 http://www.afhill.com/blog/?p=2252#comment-211529 I think it's absurd for a company to assert any kind of ownership of emergency communication. "Sorry we couldn't warn you about that tsunami. We don't have siren rights in Indonesia." However, using Twitter for emergency communication could be considered equally ridiculous. Remember when <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/22/perez-hilton-assaulted/">Perez Hilton texted tweets asking for emergency medical assistance</a> after allegedly being assaulted by Will.I.Am? Instead of calling 911, he used his cell phone to tweet for help. Hopefully the average Twitter user understands the difference between broadcasting details of a terrorist attack and using a cell phone text to ask someone else to call an ambulance for you, but I've been disappointed before. I think it’s absurd for a company to assert any kind of ownership of emergency communication. “Sorry we couldn’t warn you about that tsunami. We don’t have siren rights in Indonesia.”

However, using Twitter for emergency communication could be considered equally ridiculous. Remember when Perez Hilton texted tweets asking for emergency medical assistance after allegedly being assaulted by Will.I.Am? Instead of calling 911, he used his cell phone to tweet for help.

Hopefully the average Twitter user understands the difference between broadcasting details of a terrorist attack and using a cell phone text to ask someone else to call an ambulance for you, but I’ve been disappointed before.

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