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Read this interesting article(MSN) about controlling spam.

IronPort, a leading antispam-technology company, says that 63 billion spam messages were sent in October 2006, more than double the number of messages dispatched in October 2005.

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If you are using MoveableType 3.2 as your Blogging platform , most probably your blog is hit by comments spam. I have installed SCode CAPTCHA plugin from Movablog for one of my MoveableType blog. SCode is an anti-spam plugin that generates a CAPTCHA (or security image) that commenters must enter when commenting, this verifies that the comment was made by a human being and not using a spambot. I find SCode/CAPTCHA has helped to control comments spam.

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Marketers and Leading mesaurement companies will be soon discussing whether to abandon page views, as a metric for measuring website popularity as more and more website use AJAX for web page development. Do you think this will happen soon?. Jesse James Garret at Adaptive Path says AJAX has come along to force the industry to change the measuring metric. I think it takes lot of time to change something that has be considered industry standard, may be after 5 years James!:). Let’s wait and see.

Jesse James Garrett, the Adaptive Path LLC president who publicly coined the “Ajax” term two years ago, suggests scrapping page views entirely.

“Page views have been a broken metric for a long time, and the industry has tried to put a good face on that,” he said. “Now a new technology has come along to force the industry to deal with the fact that page views are … not a good way of measuring audience engagement.” See here

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Microsoft adCenter Labs Demographics prediction for my blog.

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Isabel Wang Writes:

Tags expands opportunities for people who may be 99% unlike you to leverage your research on the 1% common ground you share. And that’s pretty cool.

How many friends or colleagues you know who Tag their photos,bookmarks/favorite links?:-Comments box is open and my blog is ready to receive trackbacks.Let’s take a small survey here.

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A December 2006 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or
blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. See here and here.

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The Stockholm-based firm Ericsson recently got approval from New York’s taxi commission to place mobile sensors in the trunks of at least 50 cabs in an attempt to better map dead zones in mobile phone networks.

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Interesting Post from RedMonk.IBM has chosen YouTube as a preferred distribution mechanism for its new media efforts.Does IBM really need YouTube as a preferred distribution partner?.

YouTube SOA Movie Preview

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Recent WSJ Column on Long Tail “It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web” created series of discussion thread in Blogosphere. Read this interesting follow up comment by Lee Gomes, this is a must read blog post Rough Type: Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson.

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As a member of Digital Identity Management Meetup group I have been asked to create a simple , easy to read and understandable privacy policy for consumer related websites. Why another privacy policy ? , as most of us don’t realize our information about us is shared or sold to different other companies. When you signup for a service do you read the privacy policy or if you read do you understand. As part of this research I did go through Privacy Alliance ’s resource center, this site provides useful guidelines to create a privacy policy.

“Safe Privacy Policy” is a registered trademark of Prakash Kannoth, cut/copy paste of Safe Privacy Policy is strictly prohibited

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