Weather Tool & Feed... Legal Issues

In researching for this Q's Wire... post -- I tried logging onto my weather.com account and was unable get in. I scoured the net for information about the feed I signed up for several years ago, but found little. Before gaining access to the XML feed, I crafted a JavaScript hack to provide the US city gif files per user request [I like a lot of folks signed up for weather magnet -- which is still available]. I believe weather.com no longer offers the XML feed to programers, but I am not sure. My inability to login to my weather.com account does not affect the operation of the interface on my news service -- Wired Pages.

My authorization from weather.com for use of the XML feed currently only powers the interface I demonstrate on Wired Pages. I do not offer this program nor the use of the feed to clients [although I discuss the price on my main site -- at the time I thought I could sign up individuals and provide them with their own custom tool and authorization for use of the feed. I believe signup is no longer available]. My tool is now only meant to show tools that can be developed.

Because I have noticed security breaches on some of the accounts I maintain, I feel this note is necessary. I will contact weather.com directly to ensure that access to my feed authorization is only being initiated from the entry point I have described here.

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