If you manage your blog in MoveableType or using wordpress blog software you must have seen Web Spam,some call it form spam and trackback spam as spammers submit automated comment postings and trackback to your blog. Two ways to fight spam are using comment moderation. Akismet from Wordpress team is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue. I’m going to try akisment for my wordpress Blog and at work with Moveabletype.Stay tuned I will report the pros and cons of using Akismet.
Web Spam
June 15th, 2006 · No Comments
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Google spreadsheet madness
June 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Two days before Google released “Google Spreadsheet”, which was actually a product called XL2Web by 2Web Technologies.I got a chance to participate in blog discussions some here(Google So Bad It’s Good) and here (Google Spreadsheets & I Still Don’t Get It).
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fight for web 2.0
May 31st, 2006 · No Comments
Tom Raftery a well know blogger,podcaster and organizer of Web 2.0 conference had issues with CMP Media/O Reilly. The question is who owns Web 2.0, in my opinion it belongs to the company who trademarked it. I completey agree with Tim , if you read his post carefully you will understand CMP/O Reilly doesn’t own web 2.0 term, but the only condition you can’t name a conference or a event as Web 2.0.
Just to be clear, neither CMP or O’Reilly is claiming the right to all use of the term Web 2.0, as some of the posters assert. We just want to keep other conference companies from putting on events that trade on the name and concept that we created. And don’t tell me it’s not possible to have a Web 2.0-related conference without using Web 2.0 in the name! Microsoft’s Mix 06, Google’s Zeitgeist, the Ajax Experience — these are all web 2.0-related conferences that don’t use the name.
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status blog
May 16th, 2006 · No Comments
I was going through Om Malik’s Blog post on DDoS Attack Hits Six Apart and a link to latest status report from Sixapart, I realized this status site from Sixapart doesn’t provide useful information to the subscribers when compared to Blogger News, Sign-in, you will see all status and maintenance report for Blogger server. One more Web2.0 startup Rojo claims Outages due to DDoS attack.
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Microsoft to spend 6.2 billion for SaaS
May 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Microsoft said it planned to spend $1.1 billion for research and spending at MSN in the 2007 fiscal year, up from $500 million in fiscal 2005.The company also plans to increase capital expenditure to $500 million in fiscal 2007, from $100 million in 2005.
Microsoft will spend as a company overall about $6.2 billion in R&D,” Ballmer told to R&D folks that Microsoft’s number one priority is software as a service,”.
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TV Guide launches blog network
April 21st, 2006 · No Comments
TV Guide has launched a blog network
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News Corp Invests 13 Million in Simply Hired
April 19th, 2006 · No Comments
PRNewswire Reports Simply Hired the world’s largest search engine for jobs, today announced a $13.5 million strategic investment by News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media and prestigious venture capital firm Foundation Capital. The financing brings the company’s total funding to $17.7 million.
Representatives from both Foundation Capital and Fox Interactive Media will
join the company’s Board of Directors.
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Two Interesting Blog post you must read on SaaS
April 18th, 2006 · No Comments
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Yahoo E-mail servers slow
April 15th, 2006 · No Comments
In testing 16 Yahoo mail servers, Dymeta Inc., based in Bettendorf, Iowa, found on average that the servers were unable to accept email 45 percent of the time, and the number of available servers ranged from as low as four to as high as 12,
Some E-mail listing management companies face the same issue as Craigslist. Last November, the free service based in San Francisco said in its online system status report that it was forced to temporarily shut off mail to Yahoo because the delivery rate was so poor that it caused a backup in the site’s own servers.
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V iral Marketing
April 11th, 2006 · No Comments
Interesting blog post from Ajit,Mobile 2.0 Blogger on Viral Marketing , he says there is no marketing person who understands viral marketing. The reasons are
a)The basics of viral marketing are easy to get
b)Viral marketing is a function of product design.
His advice is –
you can get to know all you need to know about the generics of viral marketing from the public domain. You should then start with the product design team and work from there. If you already have a product and then retrospectively try to think of how to ‘viral market’ it – you have lost it already!
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