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MySpace's lawyers shut down SingleStat.us

SingleStat.usSingleStat.us, a service I covered earlier this month that will notify you when your special someone changes their MySpace status, has been shut down by those buzz-killers at News Corp., MySpace's parent company. The site's creator, David Weekly, has posted the cease & desist letter from MySpace's lawyers as well has his response at the SingleStat.us web site. The lawyers allege trademark infringement on Weekly's part as well as putting a burden on MySpace's servers, both of which seem fairly fanciful to me. Weekly's response is worth a read. It begins, "While I do not believe there to be legal grounds for termination of the service, out of respect for the MySpace service the website is no longer operational and there are no more automated queries being made to MySpace's service. (Gross revenues from operations totalled $0.00.)" and ends, "It might seem further unfortunate that with the large number of spam profiles on MySpace that abuse and degrade the MySpace service (with invites to sex webcams and promotions) that News Corp. would see fit to shut down a service engineered explicitly to improve the MySpace experience." Ouch. Valleywag has a short interview with Weekly regarding the closure. Meanwhile, similar service DatingAnyone remains operational, as does Stalkerati.

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SingleStat.us: Be notified when your MySpace crush is single

SingleStat.usHave you ever spent all night refreshing that special someone's MySpace profile over and over again just waiting for for their relationship status to change to "Single" and thought, "there's got to be a better way"? Okay, um... me neither. But say you had a friend who did that. You could tell your friend to check out SingleStat.us, which will watch their stalkee's special someone's profile and e-mail them as soon as their status switches to Single. You can use SingleStat.us for free if you plug the service on your MySpace profile, or if plugs aren't your thing you can pay a one-time fee of $3.95. Incidentally, SingleStat.us was built by PB Wiki CEO David Weekly in three days for this weekend's SuperHappyDevHouse coding competition.

[Via Waxy.org]

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