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Cutting MyBlogLog Spam

Social traffic is fantastic because: It’s highly targeted It’s immediate It’s low cost and often free The downside is because of it’s interactive nature (which contributes to it’s virality), spam marketers will always try to flood you, and drown out your message with their spam. This includes, but is not limited to:

Instant Messages and Digg Spam

Have you ever submitted a story to a social site like Digg and then messaged a few of your friends through AIM and told them to vote for it? There is nothing wrong with this but they probably know what you are up to, here's why. Usually when users vote on stories, they go to the homepage of a site such as digg.com, roam around, and then vote on stories they like. But when you spam your AIM buddy list and get people to click on a direct link to a Digg story URL it shows up in Digg's logs that they came directly to that URL.

OMG! Teens Prefer Instant Messages To Email

An AP-AOL study reveals some surprising, and not so surprising, data about instant messaging.

Blog Messages Are Magical

Do you believe in magic?

ASP.NET: How to Create Custom Trace Messages

This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach's ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.

Who's Going Mobile?

With new developments in the mobile market happening almost continuously, I thought it was worthwhile to visit some of the recent highlights.

Google Toolbar SMS May Log Your Text Messages

Devin Reams notices that Google's Firefox Send To SMS extension reserves the right to log all of your text messages, and I've checked, and the same policy applies to a similar feature in Toolbar 4.

Mixed Messages From Microsoft's Spam-King Settlement?

Microsoft with some help from the New York Attorney Gerneral's office has won a $7 million settlement from Spam King Scott Richter.

Blog Elevator Speech

We need to position blogs correctly, now more than ever, as businesses realize their potential....

Spam Messages Increase, Lose Effectiveness

As spam mailings continue to permeate email inboxes around the Internet, the majority of those who receive spam accept the unsolicited emails in stride, almost as if it's an expected occurrence when using the Internet.