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TechCrunch fooled by OurPlanet |
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TechCrunch wrote an article about OurPlanet (I’m not going to link to these guys, because it’s a waste of time - trust me on this one!) on June 9. Too bad I didn’t see it until yesterday. Well, basically they reviewed this new “travel site” that claims it will be “trip advisor, hostel world and lonely planet, rolled into one, but better” in 3-6 months… Right now, they “website” is a wordpress subdomain (eek) and the ourplanet.com is taken anyway… So, the story behind OurPlanet is that they will select “30 lucky” people to travel around the world to build their “brand.” Sounds good, uh? Well, the guy behind this is Ryan Flynn. He contacted me (YowTRIP) in March about doing a partnership with Travellers 2.0 (the name he used to use befone OurPlanet). The fact that he didn’t have a website raised a red flag, so I googled him and found out that’s not the first “company” he starts like that. There are quite a few blogs about him… from people who believed his BS. Here’s one: http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2006/05/one_island_2_sc.html It still blows my mind that TechCrunch fell for this guy. Well, on TC’s defense, he’s been changing names lately, so they couldn’t really look him up… But come on! Here’s TC’s worst article ever: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/09/ourplanet-has-a-world-class-ego/ and my comments are at the bottom. By the way: Ryan = Sam, Chris, JC (Jesus?) in the comments… JC (aka Ryan) claims “Ryan” doesn’t exist… here’s a video submitted to them… “Hey Ryan…” (This is priceless)  Filled under:
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JC
June 13th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Hello Everyone,
I have just looked at the same things you have.
2. Who is 123 whatever, there is no ryan.
3. Think pad - look out it’s an opinion!!! Scary!!!!
George W Bush is Great!!! It must be TRUE! It’s my opinion hahahaha
I work on Our Planet, have no clue who this guy is, but to be BLUNT. Neither do you guys, hahahaha.
London, Sydney…. If a company is registered in London, with a London office as stated on our site. What are you guys harping on about??
3rd time, this is our first time.
I’ve looked at this guy and all I see is people BITCHING!!!
Look out, the Internet is FACT.
Poor guy, sounds like you guys did a blog saying he was dead.
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My response:
Dude, now you’re just wasting my time. The least you should do is cover up your tracks a little better.
You guys have a channel in Vimeo “the30″: http://www.vimeo.com/the30
And a video someone submitted is a song that starts: “Hey Ryan…”
In case you delete it from the channel, I have a screenshot: http://www.felipecoimbra.com/images/hey-ryan.jpg
And the direct link to the “Hey Ryan” video is: http://www.vimeo.com/950949
So no Ryan, uh?
Oh, your YouTube profile says you’re from Australia… So you might want to change that too. Just be more careful when you make up your next company, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/user/infoourplanet
I have a screenshot too: http://www.felipecoimbra.com/images/ourplanet-youtube.jpg
Ain’t that a b***? The internet might be FACT afterall, uh? Whooya!
Hi Felipe
I just wanted to let you know that ryan himself has accused me of writing the ‘ryanflynnisdead’ blog! if he was dead, the first thing id do is have a huge party, not create a wordpress blog and say i didnt want him to die!
if he was going to write a blog about himself pretending to be someone else, he could at least use another blog website. he now uses that to show people that there are so many against ‘the cause’ when they just hate him for being a spanker trying to steal peoples money.
It’s just sad somebody would spend so much time and energy trying to scam people. If he used his energy to do something good, he might actually accomplish something. What a waste!
Just found this site.
http://rfinfo.wordpress.com/
Please leave any information you may have about ryan, I already have. Hopefully the blogger will gather enough evidence to convict him and have him deported from Australi.
I am “the original rfinfo” on furl.net as sought by the author of http://rfinfo.wordpress.com
According to furl, someone from one of Ryan’s organisations made a complaint, their lawyers looked at it and recommended closing the rfinfo account. After some dialogue with furl, they reopened the account on the condition that I remove or make private links that are in breach of their terms of service (the links which are in question, by furl’s own admission, is a grey area for them). And so.. access once more to the information I had posted to furl, but then needed an alternate host, free of furl’s legal team’s concerns.
I already had a large body of information collected since then end of 2007, so decided to create a new site to host this information and the links previously made available through furl. I have also been in contact with the author of the rfinfo WordPress blog, who has sent me some additional information - I will be collaborating with them in building this new website, which you can see now (under construction):
WEBSCAMMERS.NET - Ryan Flynn Information
http://webscammers.net/rfinfo
To Jeff (and anyone else who has been burned by Ryan), I encourage you to report your problem directly to your local authorities - who those authorities are might not be clear. It could be the police, or perhaps a consumer advocacy or protection agency. Without actual reports from victims, little is likely to be done. Stand up and be counted.
If you have a statement you would like to make that can be posted on the Ryan Flynn Information site, please go there and use the contact form provided. You can also send email to rfinfo at …
Lastly, be careful who you talk to online - Ryan has many online identities, and you could be communicating directly with him without knowing it. I have placed a single public link in the rfinfo archive on furl.net to the new Ryan Flynn Information site, and this link will hopefully also appear on the rfinfo WordPress site.
-rfinfo