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Understand, but hopefully you can see how "blog spam" sounds derogatory towards us.

Been called worse though, will get on with my day :)

seriously? Blog spam because we decided to share the videos with our readers in one post? We didn't post it here either btw.

why would you want to delete a thread history?

the issue i have with this is that it deletes all previous messages from the email thread. So if someone wants to read back through previous messages or forward the email onto someone who does - no es posible.

We do have processes AND policy in place to make sure this doesn't happen. But it can still happen unintentionally and when it does, we react activity and proactively.

we have a strict policy in place to make sure this doesn't happen.

If it does, and it really shouldn't have beyond a year ago (when we really clamped down on it with our authors)... we fix it.

If it ever does happen, I assure you that all it takes is one email to office@thenextweb.com and we'll have it resolved.

But I assure you that this "care free" image you might have of us when it comes to posting other peoples images just isn't reality.

Zee again. Full response: http://bit.ly/JxoWae

yes I appreciate many of you agree a quote should have been included rather than an attempted rewrite.

I agree, that would have been better.

However, calling us out for plagiarism does feel far too extreme when the updated piece clearly states the source of the facts. The original piece only included links without a name and that I agree is 100% wrong. I hadn't seen that original piece before we were called out on twitter and my reactions were clearly based on immediate emotions...never a good time to reply.

Again, will put all this into a single post soon.

Zee from TNW again.

There's been some confusion.

Will post a follow up to this shortly to explain the mix up...but basically this HN commenter nails it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972875

funnily enough...that is actually exactly what just happened and I literally (only seconds ago) discovered it. Will be putting a piece up about it soon.

that I can appreciate, but to come out and call it "plagiarism" publicly although we couldn't have done more to reference him...is absurd to me.

Feels like this guy is trolling every single one of us here - myself included - to get a reaction.

I'd honestly much rather be brutally honest than go down the artificial PR route.

Update: see this comment on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972875

Zee from TNW here.

Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here.

I honestly have absolutely no idea what we should have done differently here to illustrate an interesting fact with our readers and reference the original source (we did that twice in the article...even with his full name (a screenshot of which he conveniently didn't include in his post))...and still he comes out guns blazing like he wrote a full-on opinion piece and we decided to just copy/paste.

We work immensely had to product original content as well as link to original sources when deserved...this case was absolutely no different.

I'm honestly amazed that this is crawling up Hacker News quite frankly.

not sure what's happening but we're looking into it. We definitely haven't got extraordinarily high traffic atm.

looks interesting but getting the following error: http://bit.ly/uPmrTE

oh the irony: http://www.businessinsider.com/a-business-insider-retrospect...

hey, want to try this and cover it but getting stuck here: http://tnw.co/pS08aD

We reported on this back in July...YC discussion thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768953

you can actually just search twitter for that http://t.co URL e.g.: http://twitter.com/#!/search/http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FISHbpUw, but also Twitter says it will be releasing an API to make it easier for analytics providers to provide analytics about the links shared: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-link-wrapper-faq#How_do_I_p...

Which referrers did you see before the change? Wasn't it just the twitter client that the visitor used to click the link?

actually very impressed. Prefer a much more minimalist UI, would be great to be able to hide that header too but that aside, for an app in beta, good stuff. Autocomplete on tags would be nice too...

Love the unlimited collaborators, should help bring in more teams.

hey thanks for submitting but do you mind changing the title to "photo" or "image"?

This is Zee from The Next Web. I can absolutely 100% put-my-reputation-on-the-line tell you that the widget is not harvesting emails. I know the developer personally and trust him completely

he's receiving emails from a fraudulent account that was set up with his email address but with a "." in it. I can't see the vulnerability there but it is important to point out. Paypal should be aware that Gmail allows it. I just created 3 different paypal accounts with the three different email addresses that only differ by the position of the dot.

So this is the gist...There is a small vulnerability because Gmail allows you to include dots in your email address, it essentially allows anyone to create multiple Paypal accounts with the same email address because Paypal recognises the inclusion of a dot as a separate email address entirely. It's seems like a flaw but not a massive security vulnerability.

Also Paypal also doesn't appear to verify email addresses on registration so anyone can create multiple accounts for the same person without any need to click a confirmation link in a verification email. Again, a flaw but not a massive security vulnerability as far as we can tell.

This is Zee from The Next Web. Just woken up to this and have personally spoken to Matt Langley the person in question who - after some convincing - explained the entire process to me.

It is indeed not a massive security vulnerability but a much smaller one. We're updating our piece as we speak and can only apologise that we published before being absolutely sure of the level of the treat.

can you try clicking on "messages" in facebook and seeing if that does anything?

We're certain the product, which RWW discovered the name for, will be launching at Google i/o: http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/03/11/google-reportedly-to...

morality? hardcore...wouldn't think morals would even play a role

gutting. clever though.