Blog Entries tagged 'evil'

Voting Rings in Social Networks

ltdraper — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:00:00 +0100

A lot of "experts" in social media have made the assertion that if you participate in a voting ring on any of the major social sites, you'll get caught. There is a mystique around the all-knowing data centers that can track your activities on their site. If you cheat, you'll get burned. It's that simple.

I'm not going to pass judgement on whether or not you should participate in voting rings. It's proba [...]

Digg Robot Friends

admin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

I am ashamed to admit it, but I think I'm friends with a Digg Robot. Ever since we released the Digg Friend Finder we've gotten tons of "friends" requests on Digg. And unlike a lot of people who just click "yes" I like to look at the people who want to be my friend. (This is probably some Freudian leftover from High School and cruel practical jokes.)

Super Hot Ch [...]

Bad SEO Tool Security Can Get You Pwned

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

I was reading this really cool article on Chlorine Trifluoride, which apparently can basically burn through just about anything, including sand, asbestos tile, glass, and probably even leftover high school cafeteria pizza. I completely love this description:

It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic [ignites on contacts [...]

OpenID is a Social Networking Nightmare Waiting to Happen

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0100

Phone number portability has been a boon to consumers and the mobile industry, so why will OpenID be a total disaster for social networking and social bookmarking if anyone is stupid enough to use it?

I'm an early adopter, but I've been kind of ignoring OpenID until I had time to really take a look at it.

This Woke Me Up

We go [...]

I Will Take Spambot for 147 Dollars Alex

admin — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

One of the first things that might warn you that Novasoft's SutumbleBot is a social network spamming tool is their blatant ripoff of StumbleUpon's logo.

LogoLicious Infringement

StumbleBot's logo:

StumbleUpon's logo:

Oh, wait, never mind, completely different - one has a b [...]

Will SEO for Flooze

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Ernst-Jan Pfauth, at The Next Web, does some back-of-the-envelope calculation and figures out that Facebook may be making $15M/year in selling "virtual gifts." And she smartly urges other social networking websites to jump on that bandwagon.

Anyone remember a slightly less scary looking Whoopi Goldberg hawking Flooze in the last bubble?

How long until our customers want to pay us in virtual credits we can use in Second Life to buy private education for our virtual chil [...]

All Your Google Docs Are Belong To Me

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We put up a post yesterday with a cool table of information about social websites and, because I hate having to scrape stuff off the web, we used google docs to store the information. But that is all we'll use google doc's for - because it has kreppy features and google has, or so it seems, reserved the right to use your "private" documents for whatever they please.

Horrible Lack of Functionality

First the functionality. Let's just say if my options were [...]