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Adding value to other's content

Who does the following scenario describe: An online Web site grabs a bunch of content created by others and puts ads on it in an effort to generate cash. Content owners are angry at being exploited. ...

Tags: Value at Risk, Google Inc., Splogs

Blog posts 2005-10-19

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Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Nick Carr's Big Switch

Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight, at Campbell's Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with ZDNet honcho Dan Farber, Edgeio co-founder/CEO Keith Teare, and Gillmor Gang ringleader & Podtech exec Steve Gillmor, and me. While the event is...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Life without Google Day 2: Windows Live Search a viable contender

Life without Google Day 2: Windows Live Search a viable contenderNo thanksBefore you pigeon hole me as a MS hater I should point out that I really like Windows XP. Windows XP is my favorite desktop of all time. (Sorry Mac OS X fanboys, I've built my own PCs too...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, SEARCH, USER BEWARE, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., desktop, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2007-06-08

Technorati's transitions to the Live Web and taggers

I didnt know this but Technorati has gone from being a company that basically searches blogs to being the "recognized authority on user-generated content search" and "pre-eminent authority on what people are saying online." In any case, despite the lofty self references, the company issued its latest today state of...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, General

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Google AdSense + Google 'fair-use' = bloggers ripped-off

When money is at stake, imitation is generally the most insincere form of flattery.Google AdSense is fueling massive rip-offs of bloggers’ content, to the financial benefit of Google and at the financial expense of bloggers. Google is well aware that its multi-billion dollar AdSense business is supported by deliberate content...

Tags: Google Inc., Google AdSense

Blog posts 2006-10-08

Liveblogging AttentionTrust and GestureBank Announcements

Continued coverage of the AttentionTrust luncheon follows:Comments from Seth Goldstein: Seth discusses attention attributes that have quantified value, email addresses, etc. On the Internet, our gestures (what we do, what we dont do) form this mass of data. And increasingly, that attention data comes to represent who...

Tags: Seth, Liveblogging AttentionTrust

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Here's how Google could crush the splogosphere- if it really wanted to

Here's how Google could crush the splogosphere- if it really wanted tounnecessaryGoogle has intelligent ways of detecting duplicated content. I don't think spam blogs will pose a very big proglem to them."You know splogs- spam blogs, for short."maybe you meant "You know spam blogs- splogs, for short."Google AdSense ad splogsYou...

Tags: Blogging, spam blog, advertisement, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-05

Here's how Google could crush the splogosphere- if it really wanted to

You know splogs- spam blogs, for short. While they bear a superficial resemblance to actual blogs where people write, report and opine, all they are is a collection of scripted links from real blogs.By far, the key reason for splogs is Google AdSense. Website publishers can utilize the program to...

Tags: Google AdSense

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Analyzing blog data

I'm at the 15th Annual Conference on the World Wide Web, known as WWW2006, this week. Today I popped into the associated workshop on weblog ecosystems. The workshop discusses recent research around blogs. You might wonder what people research; the topics cover social aspects, inferring community, recognizing spam blogs,...

Tags: blogger, blog

Blog posts 2006-05-23

ROTFL alert: this blog attacked by splogs but Technorati and MSM don't get it

I usually don't examine my own navel here, but if you are a blogger, read blogs, or even read about blogs, you'll like this one.First of all, a few of definitions:"splogs"- spam blogs, script-compiled collections of non-blogs in blog clothing with post titles and/or keywords that are strictly there to...

Tags: blog

Blog posts 2006-03-08

The Dog told me

I wrote this a few weeks ago before a trip to New York. While getting in and out of cabs or walking down the street, I lost or was relieved of my EVDO card, plunging me back into the darkness that preceded it. I sent this post, along with several...

Tags: Microsoft Office, EVDO

Blog posts 2006-02-05

How to evade Google search

How to evade Google searchGeez -- Web development 101Someone over at Dell should read the 'Webmaster Tips' page at Google. It couldn't be any clearer. Better luck next time, boys!Security basicsIf you don't want it accessed from the web, then fer-cryin-out-loud don't put it where it's accesable from the web....

Tags: Channel management, Laziness, Google Inc., Web, Robots.txt, Google Search

Discussion threads 2006-02-01

Attention Bunny

When Robert Scoble reported on our late night conversation after the Berkeley meat-up Monday night, I briefly panicked when I realized he had really gotten what I've been talking about with regards to attention. Then I calmed down, figuring he'd forget it all after a good night's sleep.Wrong. Tonight, the...

Tags: Rojo

Blog posts 2005-10-29