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Not sure what you mean. It works like MyBlogLog: if you sign up, you get informed of other WOMP users on your page, and they get informed of you.
Steve,
Yup.
Layton,
Ever since I joined YOUR site, I've been having SPAM sent FROM me to my myspace friends as comments AND bulletins.
Also, you send me spam emails about your service when I asked many of times to cancel it.
Warning for other readers. Beware. Pete have you joined? **Joiner Beware**
I am sorry about your situtation but I must correct you: Our service does not send out any sort of comment or bulletin spam.
The timing of those messages are conincidental and I would advise you to change your MySpace (or whatever site this is happening on) password so that they are no longer being sent.
As for email spam: we have sent out only one email to our users since our launch in March 2006 (announcing our relaunch) and we have only delieved that message to users that have not opted out receieving service update notifications.
It is very easy to cancel your account or opt out of any email notications (both are in Account Settings) but you can also email info@whosonmypage.com if you would like us to do it for you. Just please email us from the account that you signed up with.
Uh...how do you propose they find the name of anonymous web users? It's technically impossible without some serious invasions of privacy. No service can tell you the name of a visitor unless it already knows their IP address or has some other way to identify them uniquely.
I know the founders of Who's On My Page, and although I'm not familiar with the technical details of the service, I'd be shocked if the guys behind this were spamming. They simply aren't those sort of people.
Not being a heavy MySpace user, I'm not sure why your account would be sending spam, but I can say that it's very easy for a JavaScript widget to read your login details from your cookie.
If the MySpace login cookie is readable from your friend's profile pages, then JavaScript widgets have access to it as well. It would not be difficult for a widget to log in as you and spam away.
Any widget installed on a profile you view could conceivably steal your cookie. That's one reason that MySpace has been heavily limiting what widgets can do and why eBay, LiveJournal, and other services don't allow script in their content.
If I really wanted to see who's on my page I'd have to get them to download the tool bar. Chances are that the people looking at my profile are already my friends. So the concept of seeing who's visiting your page almost seem null and void.
The idea is cool but hard to pull of with not invading peoples privacy. Tagworld has a build in feature like this and its pretty cool - easy way to meet people, which I think is the idea.
when anybody can access their myspace profile , onless they have set it so you have to ask for permission.
their is nothing private about having a myspace profile.