This isn't nearly so big a deal as you or even the original author is making it to be (He isn't even seeing much traffic/bandwidth from them). At worst it is a lack of curtesy that could have been easily solved by contacting the site hosting it and requesting they link to the HTML page instead of the flash file directly.
#1 - They didn't even bother asking him if it was alright for them to display his game on their page
#2 - They didn't even bother hosting the game on their own servers.
If they had done #2, the game author most likely would have NEVER noticed his game got jacked. Although the author may have gone a little over the top, Fuddruckers had it coming to them 100%.
The tool was written by two AIM employees, who presumably have access to the information of EVERYONE who is signed on at a given time.
It would be cool if they could also just give a raw number of how many people have you on their buddy list.
Wasn't there a similar tool a while back that showed you how 'e-Popular' you were on AIM? The difference with that tool was that it could only calculate your popularity based on other people who also signed up, so it wasn't as good an indicator.
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The other 98% of the world uses linux?
When I first went to the site, I expected to see something cool like buddy list monsters fighting to the death, but all I got were two lousy bars...
The tool was written by two AIM employees, who presumably have access to the information of EVERYONE who is signed on at a given time. It would be cool if they could also just give a raw number of how many people have you on their buddy list.
Wasn't there a similar tool a while back that showed you how 'e-Popular' you were on AIM? The difference with that tool was that it could only calculate your popularity based on other people who also signed up, so it wasn't as good an indicator.