Techcrunch Moves on ActiveRain
Influential tech blogger Michael Arrington weighs in on the ActiveRain debacle, calling it “Highly Entertaining” and laying the smackdown.
Active Rain look like absolute fools for trusting Move.com with their core customer information before a deal was locked up, and Move.com look like serious jerks.
In related news, ActiveRain moves into damage control mode insisting it’s the community owns the content on ActiveRain.
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- From Yearvis.Com | Sep 28, 2007
Andrew | Sep 28, 2007 | Reply
This is just AR spin. AR doesn’t even have a feature that lets users delete accts. If users own the content how can a user export their content?
marc | Sep 29, 2007 | Reply
Exporting AR content should be as easy as using the Atom feed provided for each blog. Not sure, however, how much history is included.
If they haven’t already, I think publishing step-by-step instructions on getting content out of AR and into alt blogging systems would calm fears of content ownership.
Jonathan Washburn | Sep 29, 2007 | Reply
Marc & Andrew,
Both great ideas. We have had the “user directed account delete button” on our feature list for some time now but completing the project hasn’t been of highest priority. Now it is becoming so.
I will also look into the easiest ways for members to publish their content on a third party platform.