Tag Archives: Spam

Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing

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If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming a scourge of Twitter, meaning you will be blocked by some [...]

Spammers start trying out jokes to sell stuff

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Most of us at least look at our spam queues on our systems on a semi-regular basis, what is always interesting is to see the variances in tactics that spammers are using to try to get their stuff into your system. This time it is all about jokes, ones my kids [...]

Struggling with Facebook Noise to Signal Ratio

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In general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with [...]

Another downside to Twitter Any cute guys out there

We recently put one of my established companies on twitter and selected some very good people to follow based on what we were doing and what the vertical for that company is and what we are about. The interesting part to this is that we put this up on Sunday, and here it is some [...]

Probably the most interesting speech of the day at Gnomedex 09

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Had the opportunity to listen to one of the older purveyors of Pill Spam on blogs, Pligg, and other social networks. I owned a Pligg site there for a bit and was intimately wrapped up in the Pligg comment spam issue to the point where the stie was actually shut [...]


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