** This is all my personal opinion ** Looks to me like they are passing themselves off as the the BBC. For instance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm#mysite states "You may not use any BBC logo or other BBC trademark", and they don't appear to be attributing the stories correctly. Other than that - its all a bit shoddy. They are using a freebie toolbar creation service - http://www.conduit.com - and astroturfing that Mozilla page like crazy. It seems the feeds are being used in bad faith, with the intention being for them to make money. Bit annoying to see the usually excellent community and ethos of Firefox extension development being commercialised and exploited in this way. Jason
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of argh grrl Sent: 28 November 2006 10:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [backstage] Enquiry about commerical use of BBC News RSS data and just out of interest, how does the BBC feels about things like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3757/ http://bbcnews.ourtoolbar.com/ which repurposes bbc feeds/radio to gather usage information, presumably for $$$ (and prompting a whole smorgasbord of discussion on whether it's spyware)? one hapless downloader even thought it was a legit bbc product .... so should the beeb build their own shiny firefox extensions, or hold another competition for someone else to? ________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. <http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0 e-4911fb2b2e6d>
