Blog: Spam
Sp*m: What We're Doing About It
Over the past few months, spam has become something like a daily conversation topic for us. It's now a nearly ubiquitous part of internet experience, showing up most prominently in email inboxes, website comment threads and discussion boards. Since we can’t seem to avoid it (and frequently get questions about it), we thought it would be worth addressing how we're thinking about spam in general and then sharing some of our plans for dealing with it.
One of the common questions we get is, “Why do spammers even bother?” It’s an honest question, since (most likely) neither you or anyone you know has clicked on a link from a spammer in a long time. So why do they keep at it? Where could the money possibly be?
SXSW: You Wish You Were Here
At any given time at SXSW, starting at 10 am and ending some time close to 2 am, there are 8 or more events happening simultaneously. It gets exhausting after 5 days, but there have been some great highlights.
Mobile conversations of all kinds have been interesting, ranging from designing applications and sites for the mobile web and mobile devices to using a single mobile phone to provide internet and telephony access to an entire village in Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, the “point” appears to be that the distance between mobile devices and our desktop computing is blurring, and will continue to do so. Integrated communications technologies and strategies will be the way of the future.
Some of the really neat ideas that I’ve heard discussed:
Skype Spam
User profiles on messenger are giving marketer an interesting new advertising angle. I was recently spammed on Skype. We are all very use to getting email spam but on messenger it is a little different... Skype has only been around a little over a year and a half but as it's users continue to grow rapidly ( 34,585,727 downloads at time of writing) it of couse is becoming a magnet for marketers.
The message is written very informally, similar to an IM with some classic text abbreviation's and they address me by first name and know I live in DC... I wonder how automated this is?
Does anyone have any that you would like to share?
Well here is my recent spam for you all to laugh at..
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