Ashton Kutcher stopped by TC50 to represent and show off blahgirls.com. The Blah Girls are an animated clique of girls that comment on entertainment and celebrity gossip. Landing somewhere between South Park and the Powerpuff Girls, the humor is delivered in the form of a blog and a video that is updated twice weekly.
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We here at CrunchGear are no strangers to frivolous lawsuits (Peter Ha, for example, married then divorced two sisters in one family and that still hasn’t gotten sorted out. Crazy bigamy/incest laws!), but this one takes the cake. A gentleman named Richard Figueroa is apparently representing an image of Ashton Kutcher that used to show up on Google when you searched for the Punk’d star. It seems that selfsame image got lots of Google juice from TechCrunch and when you click on it it pops up under the TechCrunch banner. As we all know, Michael owns Google and has complete control over what goes on there so Richard assumed, not incorrectly, that Michael was a soft touch and would pay him $150,000,00 — that’s two zeroes at the end for savings — due to lost revenue. He even made a few phone calls and started commenting in the TC thread.
Figueroa intends to rock some “legal activation” on the TC network, so look for us all on CourtTV in a few weeks.
Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life [TechCrunch]
While we’re spending our time pushing our Destroy Your Landline Contest, wherein you the readers are implored to destroy your traditional landline phones, something comes up that makes us want to perhaps hold on to ours. Ooma is a new Vonage-like VoIP service that tweaks the formula just enough to perhaps survive where companies like SunRocket have failed.
The VoIP ideal has been around, and VoIP to VoIP calls are almost always free. Calling to a traditional landline, though, has some costs associated with it (per-call or monthly). It’s these costs that have added up and made problems for other VoIP providers. Ooma has come up with a fairly innovative way to literally skirt these costs, and it could make all the difference. Read More
