i got another mail from wayn today, yes wayn, not wayne. “where are you now”. it’s a site that keeps track of where you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going. only no one talks about it anymore, it’s all dopplr. anybody who’s anybody uses dopplr. just another micro-movement in the countless individual micro-value-added services that are around nowadays. more annoying than most because you get mail telling you
My name is Annika and I am the Marketing Manager at WAYN.com - we’ve noticed that you haven’t returned to the WAYN service for some time and wanted to make sure that everything was okay. If there is any aspect of the service that you’re not happy with, please let us know (mailto:feedback@wayn.com) and we will do our best to help.
We have made many improvements to the site over the past few months and, as a gesture of goodwill, I would like to offer you a complimentary VIP pass for one month. To activate your pass, please click here
but in their own way each of these things is annoying. nothing is joined up, not properly. sure if you look hard enough there’s some other dubious service that promises it can make use of a for b, but really it’s just adding a c, or a d, or an e. enough already, let’s join the dots. when i spend any amount of time creating information, i want that data to belong to me, to be able to use it when and for what i want. do we want to join the dots serially, one additional service at a time, all fighting for page impressions to provide enough revenue to leverage funding? who is going to know what I want? it just can’t work this way. we need a common back end where data is usable by many web applications, or to anyone that cares to write a query. we need a syntax. we’re chasing butterflies as google gradually subsumes anything that matters.
any chance they WAYN spammed my gmail (when I logged in to see who else was on it) address book with invites when I joined?
Comment by hey — April 22, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
verynice
Comment by mani — November 9, 2009 @ 6:55 am
Dear Rustle,
My name is Susan Shimeld and I am a Wildlife Artist & Natural History Illustrator.
It has been brought to my attention that my artwork, an oil painting, Title: ‘Tropical Butterflies of the World’, has been taken from my website www.natureinart.com The artwork ‘Tropical Butterflies of the World’ can be found @ http://www.natureinart.com/butterfly.htm
I am the copyright owner of the above mentioned painting and as stated on my website www.natureinart.com All artwork © Susan Shimeld. All rights reserved.
For the above reasons, please can you remove my artwork, ‘Tropical Butterflies of the World’ from your webpage http://rustle.blogsome.com/2007/11/15
To confirm, I have not given permission for use of my artwork. I appreciate your help in this matter and look forward to hearing from you,
Regards,
Susan Shimeld
Wildlife Artist - Natural History Illustrator
Susan Shimeld
Comment by Susan Shimeld — November 23, 2009 @ 9:22 am