International concert promoters, Live Nation, are trying to change the way you buy concert tickets. Actually they are trying to do away with tickets altogether. Live Nation will experiment with smart-chip wristbands at a number of Uk Summer festivals this year. This is an attempt by Live Nation to cut down on ticket fraud.
In addition to concert entry the wristbands will allow concertgoers to purchase food and drinks. Currently each concertgoer would have to verify their identity in order to gain entry. Live Nation has not said anything about whether or not people wil be able to resell their tickets should they not be able to attend.
see story here:http://www.fastcompany.com/1597432/concert-promoters-aiming-for-chip
Friday, March 26, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Yelp reviews: The customer isn't always right.
Social media review site Yelp.com, is being sued for extortion by several business because it offers a paid service that will move bad reviews to the end of a listing. This service also allows business owners to identfy any bogus reviews and have them completely removed.
The legal issue being debated is whether or not Yelps' service is a form of extortion. Yelp spokesperson Vince Sollitto recently said that Yelp needs this "review filter" system in place to protect businesses from reviews by people who just want to bash them because they had a bad day.
Full article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1588083/yelp-law-suit-legal-extortion-social-networking-review-business-smartphones
The legal issue being debated is whether or not Yelps' service is a form of extortion. Yelp spokesperson Vince Sollitto recently said that Yelp needs this "review filter" system in place to protect businesses from reviews by people who just want to bash them because they had a bad day.
Full article here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1588083/yelp-law-suit-legal-extortion-social-networking-review-business-smartphones
Friday, February 12, 2010
Facebooked
This week's post deals with an article from fastcompany.com about prison inmates in the U.K. that were busted using facebook to continue their criminal activities from the inside. The article, written by Tyler Bray, can be found here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1547737/facebook-pulls-30-inmate-pages-uk-colin-gunn
British prisons place restrictions on inmates internet activity by blocking social networking sites and limiting internet usage. Some prisons don't allow any acces at all. Inmates have found a way around these restrictions by having cell phones smuggled in to the prisons and using the phones to access the internet. The inmates were then using Facebook to send threatening messages to their victims and accusers from jail. In a joint effort with the British government, Facebook has pulled the pages of 30 inmates.
One infamous prisoner, Nottingham gangster Colin Gunn, who is serving a 35 year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder psoted threatening messages directed to the people that put him in prison. Gunn was also the focus of a scandal that centered around a website that Gunn had set up, while in prison, to change his public image and discredit the press reports about him. the site can be found here: http://www.colingunn.net/. Police have since restricted Gunn's access to the internet so he must send letters to friends who then update his site.
Facebook spokesperson, Sophy Silver, issued this response to the AP:
"The World Wide Web can be a wild and unruly place. Facebook tries to put some rules and protocols on top of the unruly Web."
British prisons place restrictions on inmates internet activity by blocking social networking sites and limiting internet usage. Some prisons don't allow any acces at all. Inmates have found a way around these restrictions by having cell phones smuggled in to the prisons and using the phones to access the internet. The inmates were then using Facebook to send threatening messages to their victims and accusers from jail. In a joint effort with the British government, Facebook has pulled the pages of 30 inmates.
One infamous prisoner, Nottingham gangster Colin Gunn, who is serving a 35 year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder psoted threatening messages directed to the people that put him in prison. Gunn was also the focus of a scandal that centered around a website that Gunn had set up, while in prison, to change his public image and discredit the press reports about him. the site can be found here: http://www.colingunn.net/. Police have since restricted Gunn's access to the internet so he must send letters to friends who then update his site.
Facebook spokesperson, Sophy Silver, issued this response to the AP:
"The World Wide Web can be a wild and unruly place. Facebook tries to put some rules and protocols on top of the unruly Web."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)