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Nathan Alderson
@nathanalderson.com
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Software engineer, computer hobbyist, person (he/him)
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January 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Our company's public-safety comms app has been removed from from the Google Play store because of a spurious trademark claim. I've got basically no reach, but if yall want to like/share/whatever to try and raise visibility, I'd appreciate it.

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My company's app, Tango Tango, provides mission critical communication to 600+ public safety agencies and was suddenly pulled off the Google Play Store yesterday due to a trademark claim by TangoMe (an adult-oriented video streaming service). We strongly disagree with this claim but Google's process has been "guilty until proven innocent". We appealed to Google which was denied overnight. Our counsel has attempted outreach to TangoMe's lawyers and I've attempted to contact their CEO directly. Those attempts have met no response. We've had no outreach from TangoMe, before or after, besides this Play Store complaint to Google. We have operated under the Tango Tango name for 9 years. We have public safety agencies tell us every week how our app helped lead to better outcomes and saved lives. In 2022, our app was used in helping to stop a school shooting in Texas before the first shot was fired. One of our customers is Los Angeles Fire who is currently fighting a wildfire. There is a holiday weekend and Presidential Inauguration upcoming. How can this suddenly be an emergency to pull down a first responder app *right now* that is used in life safety matters everyday? We are reasonable people and happy to have a conversation but this is not the right way to do that. Our app should remain available on the Play Store and we are happy to have whatever conversations there are to be had with TangoMe in an orderly fashion. If you've made it this far, and want to help us and the first responders that we serve - please consider liking, commenting, and/or sharing this for visibility. If you really want to go next level - it would also be appreciated if you message both the @GooglePlay and @TangoMe to ask them to reverse their decisions ASAP.
January 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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This ladybug was like "Brother! You've evolved!"
A ladybug next to a small toy figurine of Toad from Mario who has their normal spotted hat on which kinda looks like a ladybug.
December 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #161,547!

I like it here.
I was bluesky user #161,547.
September 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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This guy and I would get along I think 😅
October 11, 2023 at 12:28 AM
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Heh. The truncation on this URL was perfect.
A screenshot of the previous tweet, where the truncated URL ends with "boo" instead of "book-recommendations".
October 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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This feels right.
Screenshot from Github, showing the user nathanalderson with 42 repositories
July 10, 2023 at 4:44 PM