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New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 79

Written by on Sunday, November 19th, 2006 in instant messaging, online communities, tags, email, Digital Imaging, spam, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, RSS, Independent Publishing.

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Online collaboration? Video and photo sharing online? Independent publishing tools? You need not go search any further. Robin Good and Livia Iacolare bring together the most interesting new media tools they found during the last seven days and share their initial impressions and info on them in this weekly report. Photo credit: Ljupco Smokovski Photo slideshow creator allows you to create videos with your pictures and add music to them 3D social platform enables you to socialize, show and browse within a 3D environment Collaboration platform lets you manage your online work with the support of VoIP communication Instant whiteboard for online collaboration that you can access from any Flash-enabled browser Event organizer lets you plan events, manage subscriptions and…

$5.5 million fine for spamming in australia

Written by admin on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 in spamming, spam, australia, Legal Issues.

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Wayne Mansfield faces financial ruin after Federal Court Justice Robert Nicholson yesterday fined him $1 million and his business seminar company Clarity1 Pty Ltd $4.5 million in a 19-page judgment.

Clarity1 sent more than 213 million commercial emails, 41 million of them to 5.6 million addresses illegally “harvested” from the internet, between April 2004 and April 2006.

The nature of the breaches of the Spam Act, enacted in April 2004, was “flagrant and unapologetic”, the judgment said.

Australian Communications and Media Authority anti-spam team manager Bruce Matthews said it was the first successful prosecution under the Act. “We are very happy with the decision because we think it sends a very strong message to potential Australian spammers that we will vigorously enforce the Spam Act,” he said.

The decision would send shock waves through the internet industry. “It certainly will receive significant international attention,” he said.

Richard Keeves, president of the anti-spam Internet Industry Association, said: “I suppose at some level you would say (Mr Mansfield and Clarity1) are being made an example of but I think it is a perfectly legitimate process.”

Mr Mansfield said he was disappointed at the “considerable fines”. “Obviously I will consider my options, including the possibility of an appeal on the amount of the fines, but we have, personally and as a business, moved on and no longer are involved in any activities that the decision refers to,” he said.

The fines are more than 10 times the penalty imposed on former Telstra director Steve Vizard for using confidential information to make sharemarket plays in three companies.

Mr Mansfield’s Business Seminars Australia fell into liquidation in March 2004 owing creditors more than $206,000. This year he set up Blast! Into 2007 and 272 Corporation.

[via thewest.com]

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