What am I interesting in this week?
- still researching on wiki
- backup storage solutions
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
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I’m not sorry to be Google’s mouth piece again. Because this time they released what I had been waiting for a long time - Google Calendar.
There was a sneak preview on Techcrunch in early March and now it’s out. Learn of it from my GMail web clip.
A while back, I started using 30Boxes but stopped.
Feature is one thing but integration is another. I’m not a person that would use one site for email, another site for calendar and yet another for address book, all because they are best of breed. Put them in one place please.
That’s why portal like Yahoo works before and Google is doing a fantastic job wooing me.
Yahoo, why can’t you open your all-too-great Yahoo mail beta to non-US users?
Nevermind, I’m using GMail now.
So let see when Google is giving me a better address book.
Thanks to a tip-off by Vince, I learnt of Blue Security.
Put simply, the idea behind Blue Security is to stop spam by community pressure, what they called Active DeterrenceTM. Watch this flash introduction.
I’m focusing on the consumer solution here. They also have solution for corporates, email marketers and website owners.
You are required to download a software to install on your computer. As usual I’m reluctant. However SiteAdvisor has some good comments and the program is open source. So I believe they are bona fide and safe.
My thoughts?
While this will work with regular online retailers that want to maintain reputation, I doubt it would work with hardcore spammers that paddles viagra, porn, logo, ipod, make money quick, nigeria scams and what have you. Their sole purpose to existance is to spam.
If you have use it, what’s your experiences?
Ever since I got Google Analytics installed, I noticed my Adsense revenue dropped by almost 50%.
I’m not complaining if it is true. Better do it right than get banned. Still 50% is a lot and I wonder if anyone has similar experience?
While we are still on the topic of spam, I ran across this idea today.
Protect Web Form is an initiative to stop web form spam. Anyone running a blog, wiki, forum or even a website for a while will soon discover web form spam.
Basically any web form is a target for spam, be it a feedback form or a blog comment.
The reason spam continues is because the stake is high. More spam leads to more traffic, leads to more sales.
Since Google ranks content in blog and wiki highly, there are huge incentive for spammers to target blogs and wiki.
Most blog and wiki software have some form of spam defence. WordPress’s Akismet plugin had been very effective in stopping spam to this blog.
However if you using an application with limited spam protection, give ProtectWebForm.com a try.
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