![]() "Is a Pull My Finger app too crass for the App Store? | VentureBeat". ↑ "MacRumors iPhone Blog: Apple Rejecting Apps Based on 'Limited Utility '"."In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps". ↑ "iFart - The Original Fart Sounds App on the App Store".↑ "After mainstream success on iOS, iFart gets a second wind on Android- VentureBeat".In September, 2009, the two companies settled their differences and together launched a free app called “Clear the Air. On February 13, 2009, Infomedia filed for a Declaratory Judgment, arguing that “pull my finger” is common American slang and not a trademarked phrase, triggering a much-publicized legal fight. Air-O-Matic responded by demanding $50,000 in compensation from Infomedia. Apple suggested that Infomedia and Air-O-Matic sort the issue out between themselves. The company also accused Infomedia of “unfair business practices” and contacted Apple to request that the app be removed from the store. In January 2009, Air-O-Matic, Inc., creators of “Pull My Finger,” claimed that Infomedia had infringed its trademark by using the phrase “pull my finger” in its press release. IFart has been used or discussed by a number of celebrities, including George Clooney, Kathie Lee Gifford, Lance Armstrong David Duchovny and Demi Moore. VentureBeat reported that the app was generating more than $10,000 a day and on Christmas Day 2008 alone saw more than 40,000 sales, worth $30,000 to Infomedia. IFart Mobile went on to become one of the most popular apps on the iPhone, reaching the number one spot on the application charts before Christmas 2008, remaining there for three weeks and staying in the top ten until mid-January 2009, by which time it had sold more than 350,000 copies. ” That decision, later reversed, sparked complaints among commentators about the arbitrariness of Apple’s decision-making. Three months earlier, Apple had rejected Pull My Finger, a rival app with similar functionality, on the grounds of “limited utility. Apple’s acceptance of iFart Mobile appeared to mark a change in the company’s policy towards humorous apps. To learn more, see the privacy policy.IFart Mobile app was launched in December 2008 by Infomedia, a technology company owned by Internet marketer and author Joel Comm. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. ![]()
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