Oregon Trail Turns Into... Speed Dating?
from the you-have-died-of-dysentery dept
Well, this seems like an incredibly bad idea. Apparently a company called SpeedDate that does (you guessed it) online speed dating has purchased the rights to the Facebook application Oregon Trail. Now, if you're of a certain age (and a computer geek) you probably remember Oregon Trail as an awesome game from the 80s ("you have died of dysentery"). I'm sure plenty of nostalgic folks installed Oregon Trail and had fun dying repeatedly of dysentery, but apparently SpeedDate didn't buy the rights to Oregon Trail to let people play Oregon Trail, but as a sort of trojan, by which they plan to replace everyone's install of Oregon Trail with their own SpeedDate Facebook app. The SpeedDate guys claim that there's a more popular Oregon Trail game (called Northwest Trail), but it still seems rather sleazy to take an app that people installed and swap it out for something entirely different.
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Do these companies really think this makes a good business model?
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Re: Do these companies really think this makes a good business model?
This behavior is explained perfectly by Hanlon's razor:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
And remember, you can't fix stupid.
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Recipe for success
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Re: Recipe for success
Well played. :D
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Against Facebook TOS
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Nevermind...
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They received warning
I received no warning when Techdirt turned into a steaming pile of gossip blog.
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Re: They received warning
Well, of course, we're neither a gossip blog, nor have we changed, but you knew that.
Paul, for a while now, you've been coming to this site and posting angry, often ill-informed, rants against Techdirt. There is a simple solution: stop reading it.
What did we do to you that makes you so angry that you must constantly post angry and incorrect rants against us?
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"This behavior is explained perfectly by Hanlon's razor"
:)
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As I try to understand your mental capabilities, I imagine your IQ around room temperature, maybe short-- 4'7" and possibly someone drives you around and you don't have the mental capacity to get around from one place to another by yourself.
So to save face, I will take my anger out on the person who sent you here with inflated expectations. Give me a name, and I'll kick them in the nuts, and invite you to watch.
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Hi, you've been
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Hmm
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IMHO, it's not a big deal unless you were really attached to the old app for some reason. This isn't Facebook doing the changes, and the private companies/individuals involved can do whatever they want, just as you're free to remove the app if you don't like it.
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It's kinda like the Safari trojan
Like remember when there was that huge spike in Safari for Windows users announced with 2Q earnings? Turned out it was because Apple had used iTunes to install a new browser and set it as a system default without asking the user. Next time they opened up a web browser they got sent to Apple.com and registered a "new windows user with Safari" hit.
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Organized Dating
Rose.
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speeddate.com is a complete waste of money!!!
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