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Digg.com, one my favorite sites of getting blogging materials is apparently under spam attack right now. I first noticed that the front page stories are getting unusually high number of comments (more than 100 each), and upon checking, it seems that someone is running a script to comment-spam digg.com. All comments point to http://tinyurl.com/eyafl, which leads to a post hosted on Blogger about exploiting Digg.com’s non-hierarchical editorial control (which has been removed by Google by the way).
It’s not difficult to launch a comment spam on Digg.com (at least at the moment). There is no captcha and neither there is any flood control. Just fire up a small Perl script that sends POST requests to the article that loops endlessly would beat the system, and of course bring annoyance to its users.
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Get it while it’s hot! It’s the time of the year and Google has released the 2005 edition of Zeitgeist, which reflect tidbits of information related to the search behavior of Google users.
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A year ago, the popular torrent tracking site SuperNova.org was brought offline out of the blue.
And now, a year after it was shut down, the creator has finally decided to reveal what went wrong.
On November 2004, I received a call from my ISP saying that all of my servers had been raided by the police. I received nothing from the police before or after the raid, nobody told me what was going on.
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Personally I like wikipedia and the idea of wiki. As a result, the entire site of Startwiki was built on Wikimedia, the same software that powers Wikipedia.
The idea is simple, give the authority to write to the readers. Instead of relying on a group of people to create and administer the contents, let the readers who know best at each of their areas write. However, this has also created a problem - the accurateness of the contents. This nature of wiki has upset some people, and a group of them has decided to take legal action against wikipedia.
WikipediaClassAction.org is currently gathering complaints from the entire Internet community, including individuals, corporations, partnerships, etc., who believe that they have been defamed and or who have been or are the subject of anonymous and malicious postings to the popular online encyclopedia WikiPedia.
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Got a question? Yahoo now invites you to ask the Internet. Dubbed Yahoo Answers, the company reckons that sometimes it’s hard to find an exact answer by searching it with a search engine. Real people with logical thinking are still better than the search engine with the best algorithm when it comes to answering certain questions.
Unlike Google Answers which depends on a group of selected people to answer your questions, Yahoo Answers is currently open to anyone with a Yahoo account to ask or to answer a question. There is currently no option of setting a price for a question like Google Answers.
It’s interesting to learn that Yahoo has launched a similar service in Taiwan before. Known as Yahoo Kimo Knowledge+, the service is popular and has accumulated a total of 3 million questions.
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Scheduling a meeting can be a daunting task. Especially if you need to get more than 2 people to come to a meeting - because everyone will have their own reasons to be busy at the time you propose.
The next time when you are the unlucky one to propose a time for a meeting, instead of endless loop of emails, try pointment.com.
To schedule a meeting, just key in the e-mail addresses of the attendees, describe the meeting and key in the one or more proposed times. The system will then send e-mails to everyone invited to ask them which time they like best. As the creator of the meeting, you then can handpick the most appropriate time to hold the meeting based on the result of the poll.
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Finally there is a web-based client that lets you connect to Google Talk IM network without having to install the client. Sounds silly? Not exactly, just imagine that you could start talking to your friends with any computers without having to waste your time to install the clients.
Okay, back to Gtalkr. The entire site is done in Flash and it’s really nicely done. The interface is clean just like the original Google Talk, which wins some people’s hearts because of its simplistic design. Upon successful login, you will see the list of your Google Talk contacts on the left. In addition, you also see your Gmail contacts. A very powerful feature of its is the API, which lets programmers expand its feature list.
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Ever wished you could access Wikipedia with your mobile phone? Wapedia lets you do just that.
Currently it fetches entries from English, German, French, Spanish and Polish wikipedias.
So the rumor that Microsoft will have an online version of its popular Microsoft Office software is true. Bill Gates said on Tuesday that Microsoft is working on two products, “Windows Live” and “Office Live” that let the company sell online subscription and advertising.
According to Gates, Windows Live is a set of Internet-based personal services, such as e-mail, blogging and instant messaging. Several products have now been showcased and announced at its Live.com Ideas page, which includes Windows Live Mail (which will ultimately replace Hotmail), Windows Live Safety Center, Windows Live Favorites (a social bookmarking tool), Windows Live Messenger (to replace MSN Messenger), Windows OneCare Live and Windows Live Search Mobile. These products are all in beta now, and most of them do not work well in Firefox, yet.
Gates has also unveiled Office Live, which will come in both ad-based and subscription versions to compliment its Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite. Beta version of Microsoft Office Live will launch in early 2006, and you can register now for a beta account when it’s made available (US residents only).
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