Amazon Sues Alexaholic

theodp writes "ZDNet reports that as Jeff Bezos tap-danced out of a cringe moment at Web 2.0 Expo prompted by Tim O'Reilly's questioning of why Amazon couldn't get along with Alexaholic (now Statsaholic), Amazon had already filed a lawsuit to legally spank the tiny company into oblivion."

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Re:Amazon's shame

[bangzilla]

You most certainly do not work for Amazon Web Services as no one in that time would write what you wrote. Be off with you crookback troll scrum. Look - this is not an Amazon issue it's the issue for all companies that provide web-based services. It's best all round if we publish/use formal API's = makes upgrade life so much easier. Using unpublished, unsupported "API's" (screen scraping anyone?) is fine for a short amount of time, then when the format you're relying on changes you scream bloody murder. Work within the system and it'll work for you. The "we're just a small, poor company" card has been played many times over and is wearing very thin. A company doesn't have the API's you want/need - move along OR work with them, but don't piss and moan if you don't follow the rules.