Spam on the increase

Originally posted on 30 May 2004
According to MessageLabs, nearly 70% of emails worldwide are junk mail. BBC reports the story and spam trend.
40% is healthcare related
37.8% is financial
12.8% is direct products
4.8% is pornography

Google, no Booble

What? Booble? Yes, booble.com is the adult/porn search engine. On the booble website, it states that Booble.com is not affiliated with any other search engines (for starters, we have a sense of humor)!!!

Here is Google’s response to the Booble sense of humour:
Google Slaps Booble
Booble takes a poke at Google
Google v Booble

Spamvertised URL

While spending sometime surfing the web today, I came across a rather interesting terminology used in describing blog comments spam. The MT-Blacklist plug-in for Movable Type Publishing Platform addresses their method of handling comment spam or spamvertised URL.
The rapid increase in comment spam is by large motivated by Google PageRank. One the criteria for obtaining [...]

Fancy turning a bicycle into a wi-fi hub

New York emerging-media artist, Yury Gitman has taken on the idea to convert his bicycle into a wi-fi hub. He has a hidden laptop in the saddle bag and the wi-fi hub has antennas. The connection is received from nearby hotspots or mobile phone networks.
Read the full story on BBC

Disruptive Technologies

Here is a definition of disruptive technologies on the Web:
Some technologies are improved in a linear fashion or incrementally. Others truly change the paradigm. Clayton Christensen writes about these in The Innovator’s Dilemma. What is particularly interesting about Christensen’s analysis (based on data from the disk drive industry) is that he found disruptive technologies tended [...]

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