Moonfruit

The Misunderstanding: Some of you may recall the Moonfruit campaign earlier this year, where microbloggers were asked to hashtag their posts with the Website builder's brand name to enter to win Apple products.

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The Misunderstanding: Some of you may recall the Moonfruit campaign earlier this year, where microbloggers were asked to hashtag their posts with the Website builder's brand name to enter to win Apple products.

Jory Des Jardins: Twitter Abuse: Microblog Campaigns That Make Me Go ewwwww - MediaBizBloggers 2009

ClickZ tells the story of Moonfruit, which is a DIY web site creation service celebrating 10 years in the business.

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim 2009

Third-party web-building software such as Moonfruit allows you to create a professional-looking site quickly and easily, while social networks provide all you need to connect with fellow users.

PC Advisor News 2009

Moonfruit, a London-based web design and hosting platform, has always used an "expandable shared infrastructure" to host its service.

Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

Because Moonfruit allows users to upload media, such as images and videos, to their website designs, the primary concern in setting up a deal with content delivery network EdgeCast was copyright infringement.

Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

Joe White, chief executive of London-based web design service Moonfruit, says he thinks the government is missing the point: If we need more grass roots, then large tech corporate sponsors are not the answer.

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Though Moonfruit's services are hosted in the UK, EdgeCast caches Moonfruit content for speed of access at different points throughout the world, meaning that content needs to be legally compliant with the laws of all the places it appears.

Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

Moonfruit sees a couple of copyright infringement claims each month across the 400,000 sites it hosts, says White, adding that it also has a good relationship with UK police in cases of more serious problems such as bullying and fraud.

Cloud computing | Legal implications of cloud computing 2011

"Startups sprang up in Shoreditch because it was cheap and vibrant and cool, and applying that to the Olympic site will be challenging," said Joe White, chief executive of web design service Moonfruit – which launched in 1999 and survived the dotcom bust.

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