Good to see the spammers are taking time off from making all our lives miserable to actually have a convention. The DM Days New York Conference and Expo was held on the 2nd to the 4th of June, and gathered spammers from all over to discuss ways of reaching people through spam, and words that can no longer be used. (Including: limited-time, free, opportunity and only) I think such events are excelent ideas. Next year I hope to be there to do some LARTing with 2 by 4s. ;-)
My favorite RSS aggregator is AmphetaDesk, its available for a whole range of platforms (including easy installs for Windows, Mac OS 7-9, Mac OS X etc). Its a really nice piece of software, but in making it they implemented the requests for RSS feeds wrong. Instead of letting the users of Amphetadesk include themselves in the User Agent (which IMHO would be the right way to do it), they ask their users to include a URL that is sent with the request as a referer! Which, IMNSHO is wrong! If
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I have been following anti-spam tools for a while, and in the latest year there has been a boom of services and programs to fight spam – for reasons obvious to anyone with an e-mail account. But what has become painfully obvious is that the e-mail programs themselves have to change in order for user-friendly solutions to spam fighting to appear. Apple was one of the first to launch such an e-mail program with their OS X mail application, supporting Bayesian filtering. Eudora is about to take it to the
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An interesting on-going study of Gator by Ben Edelman at Harvard has gathered much interest lately. Today it appears that the pop-up ads provider Gator is fighting against the study of its software and advertisement placement. On the Greplaw blog Ben writes about Gator blocking access for his test servers, now he is looking for proxys to use for his study.
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InfoSync World has an article about Philips E Ink technology. E Ink, Philips show paper-like display Philips and E Ink have unveiled a new paper-like display prorotype at the Society for Information Display (SID) show, boasting higher resolution than anything seen before. […] The display features a resolution at 160 pixels per inch (ppi), which is significantly higher than anything demonstrated previously. Enabled by continued improvement in E Ink’s electronic ink display material and Philips’ custom designed thin-film-transistor (TFT) backplane and driver electronics, the new displays are a result of
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This is very interesting: A blog with quotes from Google staff’s Usenet postings. Instead of having to keep updated on various Usenet groups and Google staffs postings there, all I have to do is add GoogleGuy Says to my blog-reader and I’m automatically updated on postings. Just wish I could put more blogs than Evan’s to the list of Google staff blogging. BTW: If you want to keep updated on new results for searches in Google, then you might want to check out the excelent e-mail service from Google Alert
According to a new report most record company executives probably would rather have not been published, the download of music files online is actually benefiting the record companies, rather than being damaging to them and their sales. Stereophile Magazine : The Downloading Myth Several studies also suggest that in light of the deterioration of radio in the US, unauthorized online file trading may be one of the few promotional avenues that actually lead to authorized purchases. New research from Nielsen//NetRatings reinforces this idea, finding that for several key youth-oriented music
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If you are interested in how it is to be living in Iraq right now, then Where is Raed ? / Dear Raed is a blog that you should read. Its been quiet for a while, but now he is blogging again. Well worth taking the time to read, may even make some americans understand that war isn’t a computer game.
Its the sad story of the web, resources come and go. Not too long ago I got this e-mail from a fellow in Germany: Hello Jarle, any idea about where Kenny Bunch and his URLS got lost to…? It’s the browserHistoryClass you mentioned that I am interested in. Keep up the good reviewing and evaluationg work that you are known for. I enjoy coming back to read exciting news every time… Kind Regards from Frankfurt Philip Lynch (Ok, so I should have left out the last part — but I
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No, I am not paid by Opera, but I thought this article in The Register was fun reading. You can’t trust a mother when she praises her child, but you can trust dear old Mum’s recommendation for a new piece of technology. The latest instance of approval from the matriarch followed her installation of the Opera browser. It seems with version 7.1 of Opera for Windows, a bunch of Norwegian programmers have done what Microsoft still can’t – make a browser that puts loads of good features right at any