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"Update: see filing embedded in this post.\nUpdate 2: Contribute to our petition in support of Statsaholic.\n\u2014\nAmazon just dug its own grave, I think.  At least in the world of web services, it's going to be hard to save its reputation.  \nYou see, while Amazon used the Web 2.0 Expo as a platform to promote its web services - particularly the hosting service Amazon S3 - it was simultaneously suing Statsaholic (formerly Alexaholic).  Mashable and, in fact, most of the blogosphere, criticized Amazon when the company threatened Alexaholic, forced it to change its name to Statsaholic, and then persisted in trying to shut down the service by blocking the Alexa graphs from being displayed on the site.  Remember that this is basically one developer who created something cool, and is now being pursued relentlessly by Amazon.  Amazon has also added features to Alexa that clone some of the functionality of Statsaholic, in another attempt to marginalize the service.\nThis lawsuit, however, takes Amazon from \"bullying behavior\" to \"complete reputation implosion\".  Because it was filed on March 26th in a Federal District court, Amazon knew at the Web 2.0 Expo that it was promoting the openness of its web services while trying to shut out others from using its data.  What's more, the filing was made after the site conceded and changed its name - trademark infringement doesn't apply.  So if you were planning to use any of Amazon's web services, may we suggest you consider some alternatives?  And if you're using the Alexa toolbar, please uninstall it.  After all, isn't Amazon stealing your proprietary surfing data?\nI'll grab the filing and embed it (update: embedded below).  Also read ZDNet for a slightly more temperate take on things."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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