SeqPod for sale at $125,000
p2pnet news view P2P:- Are you among those who signed up for search and recommendation engine SeeqPod?
If you are, this’ll interest you
In April, SeeqPod, in a bid to stay afloat, began offering its Targeted Crawling system with built in APIs at $5,000 a pop.
Soon after, it filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Now it’s up for sale for $125,000, says Digital Music News.
But, “According to information shared Friday by broker Sedo with Digital Music News, the transfer also includes about one million former user emails, an archive of 400,000 now-defunct playlists, and all related user account information”.
All related user account information, eh?
“So much for user confidentiality, though in fairness, Seeqpod may have authorization to sell its lists,” says the story, adding
“At this point, the shuttered Seeqpod offers few clues. Either way, about one million people could soon be vulnerable to yet-another spammer, depending on the scruples of the buyer.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
$5,000 a pop – SeeqPod: If you can’t beat ‘em, multiply!, March 26, 2009
Digital Music News – The Seeqpod.com Sale: So, What Does $125,000 Buy, Anyway?, June 21, 2009
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June 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 am
Jon, tip for you
http://bit.ly/ZMgUg
“Cosh on lawful access:No bogus,ill-advised expansion of state power was ever perpetrated..wout families being hauled out” (via Michael Geist twitter)
and Hitler was devoted to the benefit of children, and everyone quickly forgot about it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
offtopic…
Transformer 2 Revenge of the Fallen hits BitTorrent…. (cam only)
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I guess “surfer” missed the “Please no Spam, flaming (attacking others), trolling, and posting off-topic. Thanks.”
I remember checking out SeqPod awhile back but didn’t bother when I was required to hand out my email address to them.
These companies probably do this so they can sell the information when they go belly up.
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
@surfer lol seed away!
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@readers write above .. are you chronos? the nazi card only gets pulled out of desperation. Last I checked their were plenty of other positive arguments to the debate over lawful access. Those short URL’s suck. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=20471f10-2e98-4afd-b595-76364bad6d36&p=1 long urls are the new fad.
never heard of seeqpod looks lame. Though ill bet somewhere in their policy they reserved the right to transfer private information to second/third parties.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Um, if you notice its just the domain name or DNS recored for sale. I know someone at the company and they are or were acquired.