Alexa's lawsuit against Ron Hornbaker to shut down his Statsaholic (formerly Alexaholic) has spurred calls for retaliation against Alexa by boycotting its services. This is another irony: Alexa is claiming that the data is proprietary, despite the fact that it relies on the community to supply that data. -- lawsuit claiming trademark infringement and theft of proprietary data, ie the graphs Alexa displays. Hornbaker had previously changed the name of his site to Statsaholic, and has offered to pay for the graphs in question as he already pays for the data.
TechFold, which suggested it:HOW ABOUT MONDAY, APRIL 23rd FOR AN API ECS BOYCOTT? Post your thoughts in the comments. By "boycott" I mean if you use ECS to link to Amazon for affiliate sales, shut 'er down and hit amazon in the wallet.Cashmore would like to see Amazon come around and drop the suit, as its approach could be seen as a negative by developers:
The irony is that Amazon is currently promoting the openness of its web service APIs. At the Web 2.0 Expo, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos promoted Amazon
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