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Monday, 21 July 2008
Oztion, the Aussie alternative to Ebay, have been spending lots of money on radio advertising lately. While appearing to try and cash in on the very bad publicity Ebay have been copping lately, Oztion have been building brand awareness with the phrase:
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Monday, 7 July 2008
I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me “cool prizes”, just to search the web using their struggling search engine.
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings:
“Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.”
A distributed service which tracks and prosecutes spammers who scrape email addresses from websites?
Looks very promising and definitely worth looking into.
Monday, 21 April 2008
An interesting piece in The Melbourne Age on the health hazards stemming from pressures of blogging for money.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Quite a while back I outlined from personal experience one way dodgy sellers continue to scam buyers on Ebay. Well here’s another one, except even the Ebay support people can’t explain how this particular scam works.
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