Is A9 a K9?
A9 is the new IT in the blogging world. If you haven't heard of A9 yet you've had your head buried in your taxes. It is a search engine/site review service/diary toolbar/website put together by Amazon. Just go look.
Make sure that before you add the A9 toolbar you glance at the End User License Agreement.
The usual highlights:
We'll report your ass if the government asks:
A9.com may report any activity it suspects violates any law or regulation to appropriate law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties. To cooperate with governmental requests, to protect A9.com's systems and users, to ensure the integrity and operation of A9.com's business and systems, or in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal requirements, A9.com may access and disclose any information it considers necessary or appropriate, including user contact details, IP addressing and traffic information, and usage paths. By using the Toolbar Service you expressly consent to the foregoing use and disclosure.
And the ever present "we own every note/review you make until the end of time."
If you submit material to A9.com, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant A9.com and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.
You grant A9.com and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you submit; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify A9.com or its affiliates for all claims arising from content you supply. A9.com has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. A9.com takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content submitted by you or any third party.
The diary isn't a bad idea, but I want to edit entries without installing the toolbar. Plus, are my diary entries subject to the rules and regulations of the End User License Agreement? I don't want to see my scribbles popping up on some website. I'm not sure about A9 yet. I'll install it under my little-used IE 5.5 and see how it goes. Stay tuned.
