Some Still (No)Follow
The nofollow-tag tries to fight comment-spam: but still there are followers, including the NYT; http://j.mp/3x9MGE
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
The Spammer in Chief
AdAge: Obama has gone from a digital-marketing case study to being regarded as a lowly spammer; http://bit.ly/g7XAQ
Gerrit Eicker
Gmail’s Unsubscribe from Newsletter (Fails)
Gmail tries to make unsubscribing from unwanted newsletters easy, but fails; http://tr.im/tKtL
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TwitterHawk
http://TwitterHawk.com automatically sends @replies on given topics: highly interesting idea but close to spam?
Gerrit Eicker
Spam 2008
Google published an interesting piece of insight – 2008: The year in spam; http://tr.im/czmk
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SearchWiki: Spammer’s Heaven
Rubel: “Of course people are going to run amok on the world’s biggest online stage“; http://is.gd/8Eks
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Outflanking Spam Filters Via Good Reputation
Spammers abuse free web services with good reputation to outflank spam filters and redirect users; http://is.gd/2b8s
Gerrit Eicker
BGH: Unternehmen müssen Werbung hinnehmen
BGH: Unternehmen müssen Fax- oder eMail-Werbung hinnehmen, wenn sie Fax oder eMail veröffentlichen; http://is.gd/VSc
Duell, TwitterHawk: “First of all, we do not in any way condone using TwitterHawk for aggressive SPAM based marketing tactics to harass or annoy people with advertising material on a regular basis. – With that said, we acknowledge that notifying someone of relevant information or services based on their tweet content may in fact add value to their twitter experience. We view this in the same way that Google Adwords provides non intrusive offers to users based on the keywords they told Google about – but without this being forced upon them or annoying them. – Therefore, in the spirit of allowing contact with people for relevant, targetted information but not wanting to annoy them with harassing advertising, we have just put in place further restrictions on the use of TwitterHawk, the frequency of messages has been reduced to allowing only one per DAY per twitter account. – We may in fact increase these restrictions again in future based on our observation of Twitterhawk account owners if we believe that the service is being abused or causing the Twitter community unwanted problems. – We did not expect such in explosion on use of the tool and considerably underestimate it’s effect on the social medium. Which is why our number one focus right now is ensuring that Twitterhawk adds value to all those who come in contact with the service.”