Talk to me about RSS.
Am I the only person that doesn’t find this to be much of a
problem-solver?
I read a lot of regularly-updated websites, from Slashdot and
Metafilter down to some
more obscure stuff, and pretty near all of
them offer RSS
feeds. Instead of having to go site to site, I can
just read them all in once place! [...]
The One-Question
Certification Test for E-Mail Filter Authors.
(via Simon
Cozens — Simon’s got some handy SpamAssassin
recipes for
filtering out virus notifications, too.).
In this Lj_biz car crash discussion, wondered what sort of effect the removal of invite
codes had on the rate of account creation at LiveJournal. I did a quick
gnuplot chart of the result, which was pretty striking.
I decided to do a better chart as a quick project to learn gnuplot
a bit better, and ended up [...]
Spammers
defeat captcha tests with free porn.
(From BoingBoing, via .)
Dodgeit provides anonymous,
unauthenticated (and thus public) mailboxes for you to use for things
that ask for email addresses, but which you don’t want to give your
own address to, provided that you don’t mind the possibility of the
rest of the world reading that message.
Just in case something useful arrives back at that address, you can
read it on [...]
Andrew Orlowski’s “exclusive” to The Register, Google
debuts Friendster-clone Orkut
Google will shortly unveil its social networking site, Orkut. [...]
Undetered by the feeding frenzy around the social networking bubble, and
rebuffed by Friendster Inc, which it attempted to buy, Google has
decided to build one better.
Orkut FAQ, Why is the
site called Orkut?
orkut.com is a new social networking service named [...]
So I recently posted about Orkut, the new Friendster clone that people
are attributing to Google, but which I think is just the private
project of one Google employee.
A couple of people on #unix joined with fake names to take
a look around and generally get in the way. (One was Jesus Christ.)
To no-one’s surprise both were suspended, [...]
So, you’ve probably heard about Orkut, which has been labeled Google’s Friendster.
Since it’s the Reg’s resident conspiracy theorist Andrew Orlowski doing
the labeling there, it’s best to take it all with a grain of salt.
Orkut appears to be Google-funded only inasmuch as Google allows its employees to
work on personal projects for a certain percentage of their [...]
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