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A new type of spam
Everybody who runs a web site or blog knows what I’m talking about - SPAM
To us it is a continuous phenomenon that people are clogging the web with nonsense like this.
Pharmaceuticals, enhancements of your body parts, people doing things in front of cams you name it…
But luckily there is help around and I’m sure almost anybody is using spam filters today. We for example receive an average of about 1,000 smd (spam messages per day) these days - our “record day” was beyond 10,000 - but hey it takes one click and they are gone.
But now there are some new types of messages coming around of which we would like to highlight two:
The first one (pictured below) uses a cop/paste legitimate text from documents or books to look like a normal comment. Well two things: First the text normally is not related to the post - bye-bye. Second, if you have a closer look you might realize that its just cut out from a document…
The second one is potentially more dangerous…
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Advertising: From YouTube to mainstream
Is this the next step in consumer-generated advertising?
A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, running since last weekend in the US and created by Apple’s advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day, is based on a mock-up commercial that 18-year-old Nick Haley from Warwick, England, created on his computer in one day last month.
It might be significant because it is perhaps the first concrete example of an amateur flick being implemented and used by professionals in that way
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Web: Operation Firefox
Firefox is looking for people doing guerrilla marketing for them.
The task is to install giant 3.5-foot Firefox stickers. More info and apply (until 09-Nov-2007) at “Operation Firefox”
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Art: Da Vinci’s Last Supper available online
If you always wanted to see the painting “The Last Supper” - one of Leonard da Vinci’s masterpieces - but never had time to go to Italy or you did not get through the queue at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, you now have the possibility to please your art desires online.
Since last night (site is sometimes not reachable) the Italian group “HAL9000″ has a giga-pixel version of the painting online
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Web 2.0: Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
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Those who thought that the times of the “tulip trades” in the IT / Web industries are over could today learn an even new record in company valuation.
Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for USD240 million. This would value the three-year-old company at about USD 15 billion. While Facebook is expecting annual revenues of about $150 million this year, most likely the very high price is also related to a competition between rivals Google and Microsoft to buy a stake in the company
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Europe: French Election candidate duel via Web-TV
Thanks to the unique European TV station landscape were still quite a large group of them is financed by mandatory fees from all TV owners, when those TV stations get innovative they can do things that elsewhere still seem not be possible.
After the BBC has recently got approval to provide parts of its program via Web-TV now European TV station Arte will provide the final TV duel of the two remaining candidates for presidency in France live terrestrial and via Web-TV today at 20:00 GMT. The “show” will be kept available online for at least another week and - like most of Arte’s program - will be available in French and German…
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UN: An on-line game to teach children how to save lives
As part of the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School” the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has launched an on-line game to teach children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Players can chose between five scenarios they will try to prevent - from earthquakes over hurricanes to flood and Tsunamis. Each scenario takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play, depending on the disaster you are trying to prevent and…
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Internet: The Great Firewall of China
A non-profit group of web designers, film directors and journalists who want to make the Internet censorship system more transparent has put up a web site called the “Great Firewall of China”. On the site you can test if a particular website address is blocked in China and see how the site looks from the perspective of a Chinese user. It works by routing the requested url from…
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VoIP encryption in a surveillance society
Those of you that have time to get over to the Stanford campus this Wednesday afternoon (March 7th) should do and listen to “Phil Zimmerman’s” talk on VoIP encryption in a surveillance society. For all of you who can’t make it Stanford will put a video online at their “Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)” site. Phil is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols…
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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network
Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…
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