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RescueTime Needs a Logo Rescue from the Red Cross
Time management application RescueTime has learned that you don't mess with the red cross. If you mess with the red cross, you will have to mess with the Red Cross. Co-founder Tony Wright notes on the RescueTime blog that the Red Cross logo police were very friendly and helped to make sure their new logo (shown on left) didn't violate any Red Cross logo marks.
Today's announcement comes a month after the Red Cross went after Twiddict for using a Red Cross. I just have to wonder if the Red Cross found out about RescueTime because AJ posted a comment pointing to RescueTime's usage of the red cross. If you are curious as to why the Red Cross can protect a plus symbol in red, check out attorney Dan Lewis' explanation.
Wright also notes that they are working on scaling RescueTime to handle more users as their open beta has continued to see new users. Apparently there is also some funding news coming soon - we will monitor and report once the news is public.
hey allen,
i'm actually curious to hear your thoughts on rescue time. i tried it out for a little while and i don;t really see the utility in it personally. im not going to change what i do because a little icon tells me to, it seems like another distracting gadget. now if the application could measure the roi for spending time in particular sites then that's a diff story. for example if the app told me i spent most of time on twitter then i would think "gee, maybe i should stop spending so much time on twitter" but if the app told me that i spent a lot of time on twitter and my site traffic doubled, well then i know that i should not be limiting my twitter time if it proves to be effective.
jacob
Actually I think it is a nice little idea that will help you to gather information about yourself - get to know your computer usage habits. But privacy issues stopped me from using RescueTime. Not only me but others too....
There are other competitors (clones) like JournalLive, TimeCamp who also suffer from the same problem... why should I want to share my computer usage information with a 3rd party... no way
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