This is the first time I stopped in, but the blog looks pretty interesting. It appears that you have someone spamming the crap out of your blog. I know that it suck to have to put a captcha in but it might help stop this in the future. You can also check out project honeypot. I will definitely be back to check out your stuff. Keep up the good work!!

Sincerely,

Terrell Harris

You also go look up “plagiarism” and get back to us. Now look up “obnoxious” and tell me again why Vivek should not apologize for making false accusations (confirmed by Jobcoin’s founder) and for insulting Pete & Kristen.

It becomes clearer with everything you write who the asshole is – starting with that first ignorant, rude accusation – you owe Pete and Kristen a public apology.

Look up “plagiarism” & avoid any further embarrassment. I couldn’t give a damn who breaks the story – you all get the same PR – Mashable just writes well and covers more and doesn’t cover crap, so we prefer to read their take on it!

Relax – bottom line, you’re not that good that Mashable needs to take from you mate – or even read you.

Pete – FWIW, you could provide more helpful citations than “(via)”

Pete gets the spelling for Tamago wrong(he writes it as Tamango) ’cause he had copied from StartupSquad. However i realized my mistake and made the change, which he never did.

In the spirit of open dialogue, just put a message at the top that says something like “CORRECTION: The Jobcoin founder added a comment to say he did tell Kristen from Mashable about this last night, and we were sent an email that backs up Mashable’s side.”

Ironically, you’ll notice that Vivek’s latest post is about something we covered on Mashable 2 days ago.

As for SteetAdvisor, StartupSquad.com works with the PR company handling the campaign for StreetAdvisor(i have covered more companies from the same PR company before). The embargo for posting on StreetAdvisor was 6 AM PST on that day. Breaking embargoes is something Mashable has always been good at. I waited for 6 AM PST to happen while Mashable posted much before that, which explains why Mashable got there before me.

I can send out a personal email to you, but the only reason I am posting this here is for the public to know all about it. One thing that surprised me is that Vivek has made a new post without actually replying to the comments on the Jobcoin post.

I tried to contact him via the chat with the blogger option but with no success..

Tell me what to do ? Shall I take down this post ?

In the end I just want to say your swift response has really killed the controversy in its infancy.

Like your blog a lot. I’m not going to waste too much time on this…I sent over the correspondence between Kristen and the Jobcoin founder that’s timestamped last night. That corrects the factual errors in this post.

You might not know, but Vivek did this previously with another post (Streakr) and later issued an apology. If his tactic is to accuse Mashable unjustly to get attention, then we won’t tolerate that. I forgave Vivek the first mistake (everyone gets hot headed) and I’ve been trying to call him today so we can also put this hot headed bout behind us. But, he has repeatedly made unjust accusations and tried to spread those through our trackbacks, so I’m just gonna remove his future attempts to do so unless we can resolve something on the phone today.

Hopefully that clears things up.

http://duckdown.blogspot.com/

The same comment is posted on your blog too.

Not sure why Vivek posted that – Kristen knows the founder and got sent the press release last night. We forwarded this to Vivek, so he’s aware. We’ve had incidents like this with SS before, accusing us of not linking when we had. He later sent over an apology. I’m trying to speak to SS today to clear things up.

Also note that SS covered StreetAdvisor after us: did they copy, or was a press release sent to all the bloggers?