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March 27, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Jumpstart Technologies has agreed in a consent decree to pay a $900,000 civil penalty for violating the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, in the largest penalty yet for illegal spam. The Federal Trade Commission says it is increasing fines for Internet marketers--adult and mainstream--now that the Can-Spam Act has been in effect for several years.
The FTC says that it is charging companies that violate Can-Spam with aggressive fines. Jumpstart was fined for its FreeFlixTix promotion, which provided direct marketing opportunities to online advertising partners by collecting marketing data to sell to third parties.
The San Francisco-based Jumpstart, owned by Greg Tseng, operates numerous companies, including Bonus Bonez, Harding Innovations, Infinity Brands and Launchpad Services, as well as such sites as CrushLink.com and SomeoneLikesYou.com.
The FTC alleged that Jumpstart offered free movie tickets to email recipients in exchange for the names and email addresses of five or more of their friends. It then sent them commercial emails with the consumer's email address in the "from" line and personal "subject lines" like "Hey," "Happy Valentine's Day," "Happy New Year," "Movie time. Let's go," or "Invite."
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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