Someone read the Terms of Use of the Service??
Like the case of "blogs deleted without notice" has caused much controversy, I was looking at a blogging service that I did not know. I clicked the button "register" where the data was asking me ever, my name, address, etc.. In the middle of the page is there: Adhesion .
I do not know you, but I always read the Terms of Accession. After all, can say that I am committed to deliver my mother to traffickers in white slaves or maid to work in the mansion of the owner of the service, who knows?
Then check out how cute:
All personal information asked for Users, for registration, are strictly confidential and will not be disclosed to third parties without the User's prior consent, except as provided in this privacy policy. (See privacy policy).
found not link to the privacy policy.
Any content sent by users for use on the site, it is your sole and full responsibility, subject to prior authorization conference and insertion by the XXXX, also has a collaborative nature and not mandatory, not watching the User any right salary.
not understand. They will pre-approve the content of my blog? That has a name: censorship.
The User authorizes irrevocably and irreversibly, the disclosure in any media, content forwarded for a period of 2 (two) years from delivery.
Oh, they were flying right to use the content of my blog to advertise their own. In other words, anything I post, they could be used to advertise the service. I see. XXX
not responsible for the accidental publication of incorrect information, or by any provision content inaccurate, outdated or incomplete, exempting Thus, any liability for any damages caused by the content displayed on the site.
That is, if I post "I was at Mass today" and see "today at the brothel was" no one is responsible? Curious.
If my blog is swallowed and disappear, too. Ok, got it.
In case of complaint, procedure, or judicial proceeding or otherwise, of any kind against XXX for alleged violation of any third party rights or breach of any legal provision or contract, directly or indirectly related to User and / or supply information and content, the User agrees at the outset to assume the defense of XXX in demand, with its denunciation or the deal at XXX in accordance with Article 70 of the Code of Civil Procedure, pledging also to pay all expenses related to the demand, including legal fees, and funding of conviction.
This clause is a xuxu. Article 70 of the Civil Code is on Damages and processes that can be associated with this type of demand. In other words, what this clause means is that if I send Lula Lele, for example, the president of our country, go combing monkeys and resent Lula Lele process and resolve to me or XXX because of that, I have to bear the costs of the proceedings and defend XXX. Sure, the XXX would have opted simply say: "XXX is not responsible for the content, text or opinions posted any blogs on their servers, content is the sole responsibility of the User" and have resolved the issue in a way much more concise and to inspire confidence to the User. But most of the servers does just that, in terms of service puts you in case of liability lawsuits.
XXX may, at its sole discretion at any time and regardless of prior notice, change the terms and conditions herein set forth. The new terms and conditions will be shown on this page, as an essential condition for access to the Site, and such access shall be taken as acceptance by User of these new terms and conditions.
Everyone does it. Incidentally, I'm hosting a free account at IG-HPG they could not move, because I just do not and I logged in clicked on "accept" when they changed the terms of service. Legally, it is for me the previous train. And there's nothing they can do about it. The Consumer Code protects me in this situation. There
yes cases of abuse by some service providers, like many that have been reported recently, and for these cases, the Consumer Code is valid, no matter if the service is paid or not. Still, everyone should get used to read the Terms of Service before signing up for a particular provider, especially when the service is free. Only then will know if each User will have to deliver her mother to traffickers or not before creating your bloguezinho. Posted by
DaniCast
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Friday, February 13, 2004
Kingdom Heart 365 2 Rom
Everything in the World
Seems like it's really the end of Blogger Brazil. The Globo.com has been operating in the red for several years various executives have tried to make this dinosaur internet make money without much success. As no company can live on air, ever since the end of last year that Globo.com has announced changes in its policy of using Blogger Brazil. First they said that those already registered you could stay but they would not accept new registrations, only those who use the globe as the connection provider could create a blog. On occasion, I suspected that such generosity was not surprising and my main concern was the fact that the system Brazil Blogger lets you send images to the server and keep them there. For me it was clear that it would be impossible to host for free an unlimited amount of files to thousands of users. Now those days came the announcement that I had expected: the space for the blogs is now limited to 10 megs and several blogs have been deleted.
I patiently waiting my turn to be deleted as well. I created my blog in April 2003. I only create this Livejournal here in September 2003 because a friend of mine - who is not even my friend - insisted to me. He has proclaimed the benefits of Livejournal, and today I am convinced that there is at least one advantage: the Livejournal does not seem to go away by magic or decide to kick free users from night to day. How
Livejournal is American, there is a greater consistency in service management: layout userpics malleable and many, only with paid account. Someone needs to pay something, after all, a company does not live on air! The Livejournal, Blogger different Brazil, which has no support, technical support has a very good and efficient, free and paid users. The user
Brazilian was spoiled by bad Internet business in Brazil. It: there is no company that can "provide" services for free all the time. Revenue has to come from somewhere. This history of selling advertising on the internet conversation is telling. Almost no company wants to advertise on the Internet because they know that no one pays any attention to banner ads, and much less click on them. It only remains to Internet entrepreneurs build services and charging for them. Most end up choosing to service connection or hosting.
Interestingly however, is that the same Brazilian user who is accustomed to having several free services - blog on Blogspot , email at Hotmail, Yahoo group , etc., etc., not values have no idea when resolve comprar algum serviço de internet.
Ontem mesmo eu estava conversando com uma amiga minha pelo MSN (outro serviço gratuito) e estava comentando com ela que eu uso cabo, uso AJato . Ela usa um serviço de ADSL, aquele que é banda larga por telefone. Fizemos as contas e ela entendeu porque eu uso cabo: porque é muito mais barato e vantajoso que o ADSL.
Então eu vejo determinados serviços limitados, como o já citado Fotolog quererem cinco dólares por mês em um simples serviço de álbum de fotos ou o próprio Blogger Brasil querer 15 reais por mês por um serviço de blog e I am surprised to see people talking about what is "cheap."
No it is not, folks.
know why? Because for just $ 5.90 (yes, five dollars and ninety cents) you can have 70 megs of hosting, with its one www, mail, mysql, 1 gig of monthly traffic and many other hosting services . Compared to that, the $ 5 or $ 15 they were expensive, no?
In Time: The Livejournal is not expensive. It costs $ 25 per year to account or pay $ 5 for two months, support, security and a system that outperforms any blog. And you do not have to worry about the traffic generated - as a system of active programs consume a beautiful journals traffic - or backups.
Many people are kicking against the decisions of Globo.com. I agree with most complaints, especially with the company's lack of tact in dealing with people who, until yesterday, were his clients, paying or not. Not because the user is free he does not have the same rights as paid membership: yes it has. However
the end of Blogger Brazil while free service does not surprise me. You could not make any profit. And the organization Globo.com desperately needs out of the red before which is obliged to admit that much wrong in his "strategies" as the internet company. Posted by
DaniCast
Seems like it's really the end of Blogger Brazil. The Globo.com has been operating in the red for several years various executives have tried to make this dinosaur internet make money without much success. As no company can live on air, ever since the end of last year that Globo.com has announced changes in its policy of using Blogger Brazil. First they said that those already registered you could stay but they would not accept new registrations, only those who use the globe as the connection provider could create a blog. On occasion, I suspected that such generosity was not surprising and my main concern was the fact that the system Brazil Blogger lets you send images to the server and keep them there. For me it was clear that it would be impossible to host for free an unlimited amount of files to thousands of users. Now those days came the announcement that I had expected: the space for the blogs is now limited to 10 megs and several blogs have been deleted.
I patiently waiting my turn to be deleted as well. I created my blog in April 2003. I only create this Livejournal here in September 2003 because a friend of mine - who is not even my friend - insisted to me. He has proclaimed the benefits of Livejournal, and today I am convinced that there is at least one advantage: the Livejournal does not seem to go away by magic or decide to kick free users from night to day. How
Livejournal is American, there is a greater consistency in service management: layout userpics malleable and many, only with paid account. Someone needs to pay something, after all, a company does not live on air! The Livejournal, Blogger different Brazil, which has no support, technical support has a very good and efficient, free and paid users. The user
Brazilian was spoiled by bad Internet business in Brazil. It: there is no company that can "provide" services for free all the time. Revenue has to come from somewhere. This history of selling advertising on the internet conversation is telling. Almost no company wants to advertise on the Internet because they know that no one pays any attention to banner ads, and much less click on them. It only remains to Internet entrepreneurs build services and charging for them. Most end up choosing to service connection or hosting.
Interestingly however, is that the same Brazilian user who is accustomed to having several free services - blog on Blogspot , email at Hotmail, Yahoo group , etc., etc., not values have no idea when resolve comprar algum serviço de internet.
Ontem mesmo eu estava conversando com uma amiga minha pelo MSN (outro serviço gratuito) e estava comentando com ela que eu uso cabo, uso AJato . Ela usa um serviço de ADSL, aquele que é banda larga por telefone. Fizemos as contas e ela entendeu porque eu uso cabo: porque é muito mais barato e vantajoso que o ADSL.
Então eu vejo determinados serviços limitados, como o já citado Fotolog quererem cinco dólares por mês em um simples serviço de álbum de fotos ou o próprio Blogger Brasil querer 15 reais por mês por um serviço de blog e I am surprised to see people talking about what is "cheap."
No it is not, folks.
know why? Because for just $ 5.90 (yes, five dollars and ninety cents) you can have 70 megs of hosting, with its one www, mail, mysql, 1 gig of monthly traffic and many other hosting services . Compared to that, the $ 5 or $ 15 they were expensive, no?
In Time: The Livejournal is not expensive. It costs $ 25 per year to account or pay $ 5 for two months, support, security and a system that outperforms any blog. And you do not have to worry about the traffic generated - as a system of active programs consume a beautiful journals traffic - or backups.
Many people are kicking against the decisions of Globo.com. I agree with most complaints, especially with the company's lack of tact in dealing with people who, until yesterday, were his clients, paying or not. Not because the user is free he does not have the same rights as paid membership: yes it has. However
the end of Blogger Brazil while free service does not surprise me. You could not make any profit. And the organization Globo.com desperately needs out of the red before which is obliged to admit that much wrong in his "strategies" as the internet company. Posted by
DaniCast
Saturday, February 7, 2004
Anyone Ordered From Westoffer.com Before
Fotolog It ends up!
I have friends around the world. My friend Adriana (Brazil) lives in Saskatchian, Canada and Rafael (Brazil, lives in Montreal). Until last year a good friend of mine was living in Australia. Another friend lives in Portugal.
In Brazil, if I were to put pins on the map to indicate places for which I can travel and meet with the hospitality of friends, I could dial the following places: Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, Bethlehem Para, several cities in the interior of Paul (including San Carlos, Araraquara, Sao Jose do Rio Preto).
often exchanged photos. Many of my friends I met through the Internet itself. And to share photos more efficiently, we use services online albums, free .
Last year my friend Paul (who live in Chicago) told our group of friends on Fotolog Him. The staff rushed to open fotologs to post photos to each other, because the Fotolog has some nice features, like being able to leave comments on pages of photos and set up a bookmark with fotologs friends. But the
Fotolog has several limitations. The most annoying is that the server spends at least half a day off the air. Other irritants are two limitations: you can not have more than one photo per day and not know who've linked you on fotolog. The
Paul then found another service, virtually identical to Fotolog that only Brazil: Photopage . It is a more comprehensive service that Fotolog with more cool features - you can have more than one photo per day, longer texts can post messages, make bookmarks more complete. The Photopage had some technical problems last year, had to switch servers, but solved all the problems, and today works better than the Fotolog .
One solution that Photopage adopted to solve the problems was to place banner advertising and finding sponsors.
Recently, a similar service appeared on national lands: the Flog Brazil. It is identical to Fotolog American, with the advantage of offering users the option to become a Gold user, paying for only 60 dollars per year, and payment can be made through a bank in real .
Certainly, because of the passion shown by the Brazilians to join in online album services, other services will come soon. Already
line services online albums, the Paula uses a very nice service, the Fotki . There are other great free services to online albums: I use Photobucket , Sony ImageStation created , and there is a nice Village Photos .
I'm talking about all this because the article Alexander on Fotologs. Nessse article he says:
Pity the Americans. Raised in a culture that values the business, did not understand why so much noise. They felt, frankly, that the issue was financial, that $ 15 a month was too much for the Brazilian reality. Someone needs to explain to them that for 80% of flogueiros tupiniquins, this is pittance.
not, Ale, the $ 5 that Fotolog and by month are not trifle. The server of them is bad, there are a number of features that they offer - such as knowing who've linked you on fotolog, posting longer texts, reports on who visited your fotolog, etc, etc and that Photopage , for example, which is 100% free, owns. Besides the Photopage also has an IRC channel (chat for users hit) and a virtual radio. In addition, most users of Fotolog a teenager, has no such five dollars and the very least, international credit card.
The bigger problem Fotolog is that the owners, whoever they are, seem to ignore the reality that makes any site for free services sink quickly when he lacks a good strategy: there will always be competitors for their services, free or cheaper with more features, with the best sponsors or major investments. To be able to increase the number of paying users, considering that 56% of their users are Brazilians, Fotolog first need to greatly improve service and offer a payment in real with some better option than Paypal, which requires that if an international credit card. Maybe starting with this, they gain greater that 1% of their paying customers. Moreover, this number is significant. Because only 1% of users pay, and 44% of them are Brazilian? The problem should not be a form of payment, the problem probably is not offered a service for which a price worth paying. I would not pay for Fotolog simply because the same amount, I can get other image-hosting services much better than theirs.
Honestly? I doubt Fotolog may significantly increase the number of paying users. In eight years working with internet, never seen any free service to be successful when they decided to become a paid or when decided to force a situation to increase the amount of paying users. Most users who want to continue using the service without pay, just go off in search of a competitor, or by having sponsors for live advertising, remains free. Where is one. And then I'm agree with you, Ale:
As a user of Fotolog and former manager of bankrupt Internet company, I can only wish good luck.
As a user of the Internet, also can only wish them good luck, I have found them identical to other services that are still free.
* * *
Touché!
comment Alexander in his text on Fotolog :
"Brazilians have traditionally not like to pay. So far so good. Nobody likes. But the Brazilian honestly think entitled to enjoy the work of others for free. That's the problem. "
The Bolt posted this comment on this quote:
The work was offered for free and there was no obligation to pay for the service. Soon it's their problem, not the Brazilians. Had
thought before the consequences of offering a free service to the international community, they would not be complaining. Moreover, if you cut all the free accounts, to cut. If this is bad publicity, again it's their problem.
Oh, and if only 6% of users are American, because the service is not so well regarded in the U.S.. If it is because there are more foreigners than Americans, the problem is theirs again.
The photolog is only popular because Americans (and Russians, Pakistanis, Canadians, etc.) use the service. And the service is only used because it is free.
You think that if by chance fotolog decide to close the doors will be a tragedy for the users? They close the doors, drive out the Brazilians and provide service only to those who pay. WARRANT will soon be opening those doors again, once they realize that users who pay really want is to show off for those who do not pay. For those who pay the use of the Fotolog, he is a showcase of work and egos. Nobody here is doing charity. Neither do we.
Meanwhile, we are posting the same photos in photopage, a domestic competitor and that offers exactly the same kind of service that the fotolog.
And Photopage is free and Brazil. Touché. Posted by
DaniCast
I have friends around the world. My friend Adriana (Brazil) lives in Saskatchian, Canada and Rafael (Brazil, lives in Montreal). Until last year a good friend of mine was living in Australia. Another friend lives in Portugal.
In Brazil, if I were to put pins on the map to indicate places for which I can travel and meet with the hospitality of friends, I could dial the following places: Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Florianopolis, Bethlehem Para, several cities in the interior of Paul (including San Carlos, Araraquara, Sao Jose do Rio Preto).
often exchanged photos. Many of my friends I met through the Internet itself. And to share photos more efficiently, we use services online albums, free .
Last year my friend Paul (who live in Chicago) told our group of friends on Fotolog Him. The staff rushed to open fotologs to post photos to each other, because the Fotolog has some nice features, like being able to leave comments on pages of photos and set up a bookmark with fotologs friends. But the
Fotolog has several limitations. The most annoying is that the server spends at least half a day off the air. Other irritants are two limitations: you can not have more than one photo per day and not know who've linked you on fotolog. The
Paul then found another service, virtually identical to Fotolog that only Brazil: Photopage . It is a more comprehensive service that Fotolog with more cool features - you can have more than one photo per day, longer texts can post messages, make bookmarks more complete. The Photopage had some technical problems last year, had to switch servers, but solved all the problems, and today works better than the Fotolog .
One solution that Photopage adopted to solve the problems was to place banner advertising and finding sponsors.
Recently, a similar service appeared on national lands: the Flog Brazil. It is identical to Fotolog American, with the advantage of offering users the option to become a Gold user, paying for only 60 dollars per year, and payment can be made through a bank in real .
Certainly, because of the passion shown by the Brazilians to join in online album services, other services will come soon. Already
line services online albums, the Paula uses a very nice service, the Fotki . There are other great free services to online albums: I use Photobucket , Sony ImageStation created , and there is a nice Village Photos .
I'm talking about all this because the article Alexander on Fotologs. Nessse article he says:
Pity the Americans. Raised in a culture that values the business, did not understand why so much noise. They felt, frankly, that the issue was financial, that $ 15 a month was too much for the Brazilian reality. Someone needs to explain to them that for 80% of flogueiros tupiniquins, this is pittance.
not, Ale, the $ 5 that Fotolog and by month are not trifle. The server of them is bad, there are a number of features that they offer - such as knowing who've linked you on fotolog, posting longer texts, reports on who visited your fotolog, etc, etc and that Photopage , for example, which is 100% free, owns. Besides the Photopage also has an IRC channel (chat for users hit) and a virtual radio. In addition, most users of Fotolog a teenager, has no such five dollars and the very least, international credit card.
The bigger problem Fotolog is that the owners, whoever they are, seem to ignore the reality that makes any site for free services sink quickly when he lacks a good strategy: there will always be competitors for their services, free or cheaper with more features, with the best sponsors or major investments. To be able to increase the number of paying users, considering that 56% of their users are Brazilians, Fotolog first need to greatly improve service and offer a payment in real with some better option than Paypal, which requires that if an international credit card. Maybe starting with this, they gain greater that 1% of their paying customers. Moreover, this number is significant. Because only 1% of users pay, and 44% of them are Brazilian? The problem should not be a form of payment, the problem probably is not offered a service for which a price worth paying. I would not pay for Fotolog simply because the same amount, I can get other image-hosting services much better than theirs.
Honestly? I doubt Fotolog may significantly increase the number of paying users. In eight years working with internet, never seen any free service to be successful when they decided to become a paid or when decided to force a situation to increase the amount of paying users. Most users who want to continue using the service without pay, just go off in search of a competitor, or by having sponsors for live advertising, remains free. Where is one. And then I'm agree with you, Ale:
As a user of Fotolog and former manager of bankrupt Internet company, I can only wish good luck.
As a user of the Internet, also can only wish them good luck, I have found them identical to other services that are still free.
Touché!
comment Alexander in his text on Fotolog :
"Brazilians have traditionally not like to pay. So far so good. Nobody likes. But the Brazilian honestly think entitled to enjoy the work of others for free. That's the problem. "
The Bolt posted this comment on this quote:
The work was offered for free and there was no obligation to pay for the service. Soon it's their problem, not the Brazilians. Had
thought before the consequences of offering a free service to the international community, they would not be complaining. Moreover, if you cut all the free accounts, to cut. If this is bad publicity, again it's their problem.
Oh, and if only 6% of users are American, because the service is not so well regarded in the U.S.. If it is because there are more foreigners than Americans, the problem is theirs again.
The photolog is only popular because Americans (and Russians, Pakistanis, Canadians, etc.) use the service. And the service is only used because it is free.
You think that if by chance fotolog decide to close the doors will be a tragedy for the users? They close the doors, drive out the Brazilians and provide service only to those who pay. WARRANT will soon be opening those doors again, once they realize that users who pay really want is to show off for those who do not pay. For those who pay the use of the Fotolog, he is a showcase of work and egos. Nobody here is doing charity. Neither do we.
Meanwhile, we are posting the same photos in photopage, a domestic competitor and that offers exactly the same kind of service that the fotolog.
And Photopage is free and Brazil. Touché. Posted by
DaniCast
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