Making friends and influencing people: SMS.ac and Joi Ito

Joi Ito is a big name in the web nerd community. He has a blog post up in which he explains how he used a service, they spammed his entire contact list, he then quit the service and posted a public apology... and now SMS.ac is sending him a cease and desist claiming that he has done something illegal.
Note that he also points out Chilling Effects which is a good resource for this sort of thing.

This is probably not a good sign that SMS.ac is any sort of company that you would want to do business with. You also have to wonder if they are just doing this for all of the free publicity as people around the web point to them and say "look at these idiots".

(From Boingboing)

Posted by Eric at February 22, 2005 12:39 PM | TrackBack